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Maya Angelou is a hard working person. She shows most people how she overcame many trails. Listen to what she has done as she has faced all of these trials. Maya Angelou has examplified perserverence by overcoming her rough childhood, getting pregnate, and finding a perminate job.

Maya Angelou overcame her rough childhood by. When she was eight years old her my had a bad boyfriend that raped Maya and after she had testified about it he was found murdered. This lead to her getting sent to her aunts house and after he was killed she blamed herself and stoped talking for a few years. After those years of not talking she had met Bertha Flowers the smartest black woman where she lived and they bagan to talk and read together.

Mrs. Angelou also overcame getting pregnate. Her and her brother Bailey were sent back to live with their mom and there at age sixteen she got pregnate. She was struggling and had heartache mostly because she couldnt support or provide for herself or her child. Since she was having such a hard time she had to make a few choices for not only her but her baby. She soon moved back to San Francisco and moved into her mothers fourteen bedroom house and went out to find a job.

Finally Maya Angelou overcame not being able to find a perminate job.She had wanted to do many things like being a dancer, singer, actress, and a writer. She had tried to do many jobs but non of them lasted very long. She was fourty-two when her brother was arrested for saling stolen goods. When she got really depressed she wrote many books her first book was called "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings."

Now you see how or why i think Maya Aneglou is a perservering person and overcoming many trials. I think this makes her a good and hard working woman that can do anything she puts her mind to an can teach others how to do what they want to do. Maya shows kids and grown up of all ages what it means to make the best of a rough situation to show you can make it.



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