Maya Angelou’s short story “Champion of the World” showcases the power of narrative writing. The story itself is about an African American community that crowds into a store to listen to a boxing match over the radio. The match is between Primo Carnera, who isn’t given much background, but it is explained that he’s white, and Joe “Brown Bomber” Louis, who was an exceptionally skilled black boxer and hero to the African American population. Angelou’s use of first person narration, telling the story by scene, and starting in the middle greatly affects the narrative. First person narration is one of the key parts of the narrative. The fact that it uses words such as “I” and “we”, as one would in the first person point of view, makes it much
