https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95 Maya Angelou en-us 2020-01-10 18:17:38 UTC 2020-01-20 10:39:28 UTC hello@padlet.com monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433526713 Angelou, Maya. A Song Flung up to Heaven. Random House, 2002.]]> 2020-01-20 05:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433526713 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433529793 Maya decided to return to United States after staying 4 years in Ghana, leaving her son to help Malcolm X with the OAAU, a organization that fought for the black people's rights. She contacted Malcolm and some of her friends, she told them she would spend a month with her family in SF. The political climate was tense in the US in that time. After she arrived to SF, Maya spent an awesome weekend with her brother and mother but also thinking about her son.

 "My return in the United States came at the most opportune time. I could leave my son to his manly development hurdles; I would leave my great, all-consuming love to his obedient subjects; and I would return to work with Malcolm X on building the Organization of African-American Unity." (10)]]> 2020-01-20 05:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433529793 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433534474 After the weekend, she visited her Auntie Lottie, they chatted for a while until Maya received a call from Ivonne, she told her that Malcolm X was death. Maya, devastated, went with his brother to a couple of bar, talking about Malcolm X death, she was shock with the indifference of black people. Later, she talks with his son about everything. 

"She said, 'These Negroes are crazy here. I mean, really crazy. Otherwise, why would they have just killed that man in New York?' (...) I didn't have to ask. I knew "that man in New York" was Malcolm X and that someone had just killed him." (26)]]> 2020-01-20 06:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433534474 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433539107 She moved to Hawaii with her Aunt Leah and her husband, working as a nightclub singer to get everything in her life straight. After a couple of months, she had her own clientele and an apartment. Later, she met the singer that stole her clientele but Maya discovered that singing isn't for her, deciding after that to move to LA. She gave her last show and felt like a brighter person than before.]]> 2020-01-20 06:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433539107 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433543653 Frances Williams helped her in LA giving her a job, in Random Research, and an apartment. Working, she learn a lot of the black people of Watts and their anger at the US system, the racism and their situation. On day a riot exploded in Watts, Maya watched all the problems closely, going to Watts and she was part of what happened, she wrote about it and did interviews for reporters. ]]> 2020-01-20 07:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433543653 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433551568 Maya got a call from the love of her life, he was in United States ready to take Maya back to Africa with him. They visited LA and went to black libraries, stores and to the cinema. They watched a romantic movie but after it they fought like Maya was expecting. The next morning her brother and mother came and talked withe her lover and Maya herself. His lover decided to move to Mexico at the end.

" 'I am here.' He couldn't be. I looked at the door. 'I am in New York City. I have come to collect you. God gave you to me. Remember' I couldn't speak. He was the man I felt had taken the heart out of my body and worn it boldly on his shoulders like an epaulette, and I had adored him." (96)]]> 2020-01-20 07:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433551568 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433564093 Maya decided to move again, at the end she picked New York. She was planning everything until Bailey came to her house, when he told her about the accident that happened to her son she quickly packed everything and drove to SF. When she finally arrived, she felt guilty for the what happened to her son but she stayed with him until recover. It wast time to move to NYC. 

" 'Baby, Guy returned to San Francisco three days ago, and I've come for you. He's in the hospital. He is in serious condition but not a life-threatening one. Get what you need.' Surprise, whether good or bad, can have a profound effect on the body. Some people faint, some cry aloud. Bailey caught me as my knees buckled." (119-120)]]> 2020-01-20 08:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433564093 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433570321 Maya arrived to her friend Rosa's apartment, ready to start her life there. She met Dolly, "the old black lady" that was with her lover, but ,ironically, they became good friends, they spent a lot of time together. Also, Maya met new people and gathered with old friends that helped her furnished her apartment.]]> 2020-01-20 08:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433570321 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433573702 Maya received from his old lover. He told her that he wanted to see her  at a gathering with a few more persons. All of this happened without him knowing that Dolly and her are friends, so they planned something to embarrassed him. When the night came, she prepared everything, even Dolly's entrance. Maya asked him about fidelity when Dolly entered the room. No one notices what happened but the girls were satisfied. Later, Maya's old lover talked with her totally embarrassed  and went out with the rests of the guests to an appointment.

"Dolly walked in the door. Only a few heads turned.  (...)  Dolly walked up to his chair and laid a hand on his shoulder. 'Hello there.' He turned and looked up. It took him a second to register her face and another to remember where he was. The first question was, Did I see her, too? The second was, Did I know who she was? Really? The third was, How did she get here?"  (167-168)]]> 2020-01-20 09:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433573702 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433585551 Guy came to NYC for one day and Maya planned a party in honor of his son and invited all of the men that helped her raise Guy. She prepared everything with the thoughts in her mind that Guy is no longer her little child. The guests came and the party went well until Hercules and his partner arrived, making offensive comments and acting in a bad way that made feel Maya angry. She kicked them out and after that the party went well. At the end of the party, Guy talks to his mom about what happened and they explained each other point of views. At the end, they said how much they love each other. ]]> 2020-01-20 09:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433585551 monroand000 https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433592760 It was Maya's birthday, she was preparing everything for the gathering happily until Dolly calls her, she told her to wait for her. Dolly arrives and said that Martin Luther King was dead. She went to Harlem feeling shocked and devastated. That day marked history for Americans, what happened was shattering and sorrowful for everyone. After some time, Maya received an excellent job offer to write a television series. She accepted it, so she moved to SF to start her new job.]]> 2020-01-20 10:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/monroand000/bpltcjtnwa95/wish/433592760