Running head: SISTER FLOWERS JOURANL
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Journaling Sister Flowers by Maya Angelou
Shantedra Pearson
Ashford University
SISTER FLOWERS JOURANL
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Journaling Sister Flowers by Maya Angelou
Sister Flowers
, by Maya Angelou, is a personal essay piece that tells a specific story from
Angelou’s personal life.
Sister Flowers
accounts an experience that Maya Angelou, as young
Marguerite Johnson, experienced during what she’d believed would be just an errand.
Angelou
would attribute this experience as having been life-changing.
Her purpose in writing this piece is
to describe that fateful encounter, and to express the effects that it had on her life. This story is
significant because it highlights the commencement of a silent Marguerite’s journey to her voice,
which was really a journey to herself.
There were several components of the literary components described in the Connell and
Sole (2013) text, including tone and voice.
The voice and vocabulary used insinuate that
Angelou may have intended the piece to be read by a far-reaching audience.
