Gather Together in My Name
by Maya Angelou
List Price: $5.50
Pages: 181
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0553260669
Publisher: Bantam Books
In Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou continues her
stunning autobiography. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate
and mellow, she fills the pages with both wisdom and wonder as she brings
us along in her struggle and dance through life.
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1.Rita's nonconformity is both a blessing and a curse. How do you think it hurts her--and helps her?
2.What does Rita learn about the stability of human relationships? Does she tend to trust others, or is she suspicious?
3.When Rita is thrown into the adult world, her innocence dies. When and how is her innocence reborn?
4. Rita has a series of unsuccessful relationships with men. She supposes that men leave her because they don't think she needs them badly enough. What about her might make men think this? Do you believe that she truly wanted the relationships; why or why not?
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"A heroic and beautiful book. "
—— Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"This is the story of a great heroine who knows the meaning of a struggle and never loses her pride or dignity. Indeed, her story makes me proud of the human race. "
—— John Oliver Killens
