Chattahoochee River
Friday, March 20, 2015
I know why the caged birds sing 9-18
During this section of my groups reading what really shocked me was the fact that even when she did meet her parents, she still felt out of place. In the beginning she felt as if she didn't belong, she didn't have a "place". Surely I thought that when her parents came back into her life things would change. It shocks me that she sees it as one stranger passing her on to another stranger. Even if she doesn't "know" them I would think that it would hurt it again to have her dad hand Maya and her brother down to there mother. The reaction Maya's brother had was normal to my eyes. Also when she was mollested by her mothers boyfriend that freaked me out. I think that is so disgusting and it was too disturbing to read. The saddest part is that she's young and not independent enough to get out of her situations so I pity her.
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Brendee, I was really shocked by the part with Mr. Freeman as well since I thought he was a good guy. It was really disturbing to read because she seemed so innocent that she didn't even know what was going on and took it as him loving her.
ReplyDeleteI love how you noticed and mentioned her continuous feelings of detachment from her surroundings and from her family. I noted that as strange as well, and I have concluded that these feelings resulted from the habit of her grandmother to not show affection, and then to her perpetuating feelings of being abandoned by her parents at a young age, in addition to being abruptly taken from one life in Stamps to another in San Francisco.
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