Maya Angelou Research Paper

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Beatrix Potter once said, ‘I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations, which was meant to highlight how her personality and interests stood out differently as a child similar to that of Marguerite Angelou. Maya Angelou whose correct name is Marguerite Annie Johnson Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis Missouri and later relocated to live with her stern grandmother Annie Henderson, Uncle Willie and her brother Bailey Johnson in Arkansas. (Lupton 1998). Unsettled, she was taken to her mother, Vivian Baxter in St. Louis where Maya Angelou was seduced and raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Frightened at the thought that she had caused his death, she went mute for approximately five years. According