Maya Angelo's 'New Directions'

This short story analysis will be on a story by Maya Angelo called New Directions. I think the theme of this story is that there is always alternatives if a plan doesn’t work out. If you’re not happy with where your life is leading you can always make a new path for yourself. The plot revolves around a woman named Annie Johnson. She lives in poverty and an unhappy marriage with two children. The couple later admit to each other that they aren’t happy together and Annie decides that she’s had enough of living in poverty, so she decides to make her own path and bake pies and other foods to sell at the lumber yards for workers. The mood is very depressing at first but towards the end it’s a very determined mood and has a pretty happy ending. The story takes place in Arkansas in the year 1903.

She was tired of living in poverty and needed to support her two children so she decided to become self employed by making food for workers at the lumber mill and other businesses and did a very good job and made a pretty good success with her business. The first day she cooked chicken and meat pies and then went to the cotton gin factory and started to cook and the smell brought a crowd of hungry workers and after a while the workers became dependent on her cooking and so she built a stall on an empty lot next to one of the factories and she did this for years and that stall became a store where many food and goods could be purchased. So pretty much she went from rags to