Summary
Marguerite gets a job as a house maid for a white woman Mrs. Cullinan wants to quit because she starts to call her Mary. In order to get fired Marguerite decides to break Mrs. cullinan's best dishes which she knew was the pride of her family. Bailey gets in trouble for coming home way past his normal time due to being mesmerized at the movies with an actress that looks just like his mother and gets whipped by Uncle Willie. The annual revival were held and for the fisrt time Marguerite gets a leader on why the the whites show "charity". Which was a was for the preacher to express that whites gave to the blacks, but they only do it knowing that they are the masters. Marguerite makes a new friend named Louise which symbolized from her leaving adulthood and coming back to childhood. Bailey finally has his first love with a girl named Joyce, that turns out to be a girl just looking for the finer things in life which he couldn't provide. Marguerite is hit with the harsh reality of death after Mrs. Taylor a close friend to the family dies. At the funeral, Marguerite endured the sorrow of having to stare at a dead woman's body who she sort of grew close to up to her death.
Quotation
"Even if I have the tongue of men and of angels and have not charity, I am as nothing..."(Angelou 122).
Reaction
Reading this line from the book i felt like i just stumbled onto something that i never really thought about before. To me, the quote meant that it is one thing to be giving, but if you are a giving person and always brag about it, that is not right. It is nice to do something good, but don't let it go to your head because then you are comparing yourself to God, which is impossible. I really thought this was a interesting quote, because in so many ways it connects to the way things happened in the time of segregation and racism.
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it works.
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