The Caged Bird Summary Chapter 8

In chapter eleven Maya is laying in bed with mr.Freemen. Most of the time Maya’s mother Vivian is in bed with them too, but this morning she gotten up earlier. Maya was just peacefully laying there,when she feels Mr.Freemen pull her closer to him. She loved getting held that close to him, she felt loved. But the next thing she knows she feels Mr.Freemen put his penis on her leg, she doesn’t like how it feels. Maya states “I knew, as if I had always known, it was his “thing” on my leg.” All Mr.Freeman told Maya was for her to stay still, and that he wouldn’t hurt her. Once Mr.Freeman was done doing what he was doing, he finally let Maya go and got up out of bed. Maya sees a wet spot on the bed,Mr.Freeman said “get up you peed the bed.” Maya …show more content…
Mr.Freeman gets Bailey alone again, Vivian is out working and Bailey is playing baseball. He called maya over to his big chair he was sitting in , she walked over with no apprehension until she noticed that his pants were open and his “thing” was out. He turned up the radio so that Maya would be audible, and told Maya “Now, this ain’t gonna hurt you much. You liked it before, didn’t you?” Maya responded with nothing, because she didn’t want to admit to him that she liked him holding her so close she could hear his heartbeat. Mr.Freeman told her “Pull down your drawers.” She hesitated though, which caused Mr.Freeman to pull her bloomers,turn up the radio and drag her closer to him. Mr.Freeman then says to Maya “If you scream, I’m gonna kill you, And if you tell, I’m gonna kill Bailey. Maya still didn’t understand why he’d want to kill either of us, they have never done anything wrong to him. She still did not understand that he was threatening her, to save his own life from what he was about to do to her. Mr.Freeman then raped Maya, she was in such extreme amounts of pain. Maya then woke up to Mr.Freeman bathing her off, and telling her yet again not to tell a single soul about what just happened. Maya was still scared to hurt Mr.Freeman's feelings or startle him, she wanted them to stay …show more content…
He did in fact show that he had a lot of self-empowerment. He saw himself as a big man, who could control and take advantage of a little girl. He fell under his gross urges, and took a little girl's self-respect and self-empowerment a way, to add to his own in his own head. A few hours after being found guilty of raping Maya, somehow Mr.Freeman gets released. But later that day he is found dead, it’s apparent that he was kicked to death. Maya’s family knew it was her big tough uncles who did it. This shows abandonment and family ties, abandonment by the fact that Maya still liked Mr.Freeman she felt bad for him but really this was a good thing. He abandoned her, the first time her touched her.And it shows family ties, by the fact her uncle's actually killed someone for her. It’s twisted because murder is never right, but he raped her. They did what most hoped would