My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou) is about Margaret's life as a young girl who worked as a servant for a white women, Mrs. Cullinan. She is not a slave but served Mr.Cullinan is her job, Margaret does mind that. Mrs. Cullinan changes her name to Mary, Therefore, Margaret breaks Mrs. Cullinan's casserole dish because she wanted to find a way to get out of the relationship.
In the rest of this blog post, I will respond to two reading-related questions: Did you agree with Margaret's choice to break the casserole dish and two green glass cups? In my opinion Margret was right in her choice to break the casserole dish. For she has been a loyal servant for years now, Margret has been a very hard-working girl who is living in the segregated south so it is important for her to find a way to support her mother, so she took care of mrs.Cullian’s house for a wage. She knows Mrs. Cullinan for years now and she had slept in Mrs. Cullinan's house and seen Mrs, Cullians husbands daughters. So for Mrs. Cullinan to choose to change Margaret name to Mary, so suddenly just because a friend of hers told her to, it was not okay with Margaret. No for that white lady with all that experience out in the social word especially in her time she knew how crass her friend was being and she played into it. when slaves and blacks would be called different names to show them off as property, Ms. Cullinan was being crass. I understand as a black men at how that racial tension could elevate a situation and in Margaret's effort to quit caused her to break the casserole. I believe I would have also gone to extremes to get out of a uncomfortable situation. If you feel as though you have another opinion let me know in the comment section. When have you made an important choice to either resist or not resist oppression, challenge the status quo, or refuse to obey an authority figure? Well there was a time when I called the police for my aunt's-ex boyfriend because he hit in the back with a television cord. Well it started with a situation at school where I had gotten into an argument in class because of issues that at this time seems trivial. Since I was in that altercation I was assigned detention. Well at the end of the school day i forgot about the penalty because I was in a rush to catch the school bus and get to the house, well when my Aunt's ex came home he told me that i had missed detention and i needed to be punished, so he took a cable cord and stroke me in the back. Since he is not my father or my mother I did not like the neglect I felt in the environment so I called child services. To be honest I felt as though i could have been punished because I didn't show up for detention, because i forgot about it, but not on purpose. Even with my explanation he hit me. I do not like being punished to an extreme so I thought I had to get the police to mediate the situation.
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Aiesha Bonaparte
2/12/2018 05:12:13 am
I agree with you on the topic of Margaret and I am sorry you had to experience that as a child. I know that was a scary situation to go through. Glade to see you over came it and moved forward.
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Adam Dunbar
2/16/2018 04:31:03 am
Really sorry you had to go through that it must have been tragic as a child. I am glad you overcame that and hopefully you became stronger from it.
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