Cry The Peacock Theme

She should go to her room, and leave the men to men’s business. She is left to reflect, in her grief, on the developing wisdom of her son.

Seeing as she did all of this without her father’s knowledge shows that she still to immature to face her father with what she wants, so she did what she wanted to do out of what she saw as love but others see as an act of rebellion and lust.

In marriage there should be a foundation of trust but it is also important to commit to the duties of a marriage. John should have realized that letting

It’s a bad marriage "Married two weeks and got the eye?" a quote by George shares our disbelief about

In the first couple of paragraphs, she utilizes a didactic tone to talk to him about ehy she urged him to go even though he seemed reluctant to go with his father. She states this in "If I had thought your reluctance arose from proper deliberation... I should not have urged you to accompany your father..." She also doesnt

The loss of self-identity contributes to the loss of communication. Maya becomes mute due to the witnessing of a Sikh’s death on the hands of a Hindu. Self to self thoughts such as, “is my silence unfounded? No I do not deserve to be found. Or loved. ...sometime there's nothing left to say to another human being” (170-171). lead to Maya embracing her silence. Maya completely shuts down her sense of communication between others and herself due to the traumatic alienation that affects her. Alienation causes her to go under a mental state that promotes her isolation towards the world and full independence on herself, which results in the confusion of who she really is. The loss of identity causes her to become a vulnerable part amongst the environment she lives in. In addition, the loss of self identity promotes in the decrease of cultural identity preventing a positive world view. The reality of Maya’s Hindu and Sikh names, “really mean— is that [she] was born into a division that began long before [her]” (34). Also, as Ammar makes remarks about how “Maya means delusion,” and it, “is what Sikhs tries to escape from during his life on earth” (38). Maya begins to cry. The cultural differences that Maya lives through did not start from the external environment but rather from her own family at a very young age. She has been exposed to cultural identity crises that her parents fought over and which leads to a

She then made the following statements on why she thought someone had killed her father:

He hadn’t seen her because she was an all black german shepherd. Excited to see her Max jumped right back up and began petting her. He and Midnight went up to his room, Max went to get on his bed but there was dirt all over it. Where did this come from her thought? Then he looked down at Midnight paws and they were caked in dirt.

Seeing a person she completely looked up to, showing signs of weakness was too much for her to handle. "My father was a strong man who could whisk a child upon his shoulders and go singing through the house. “How could it be that my father was crying?” The world had lost its boundary lines. My mother, who was small and soft, was now the strength of the family; my father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child” Where did I fit into this broken picture?

This shows that since her childhood she had never known any comfort from her father and he had always been cruel to her.

but it was her father. She is too scared to speak out she is stuck

Sinking into her seat, Djinda wrapped her arms around her as she cried. “Shut the little darkie up,” one man hissed, it was not her mother’s father, but another man.

Maya Angela is like a bud who slowly bloomed to become a beautiful flower. In her most famous book’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” she discusses the horrible struggles she went through as a young girl being black, being shy, and being raped. Throughout her life she struggled

describing her anguish I felt she neglected to realize how this could come off to fellow parents

Everyone undergoes unpleasant experiences, but did you know that these experiences help you grow as a person? The historical drama novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, portrays the Logan family, and the hardships they must experience as a black family in the segregated South. There are four children in the Logan family: Little Man, Christopher-John, Cassie, and Stacey. One of Stacey’s friends is T.J. Avery, but T.J. later goes on to be “friends” with two older white boys, R.W. and Melvin Simms. R.W. and Melvin Simms also have a younger sister, Lillian Jean, a prideful and persnickety girl. One theme in this book is coming of age through pain and experience. The characters mature at school, the market, and when T.J. is caught