Graduation By Maya Angelou Summary

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Why People Write?

People write for many reasons. They write to educate, , and to entertain to express their feelings of emotions of joy or sadness, also to preserve history

In Maya Angelou’s story “Graduation” in Fields of Reading she teaches us about racism in the south in the 1940’s.

Angelou writes about how schools in the south were segregated. Black students were deprived of resources to enable students to learn. While schools were endowed with all the resources needed for a prominent education.

They were going to have the newest microscopes and chemistry equipment for their laboratory.1

Not only does Maya Angelou write about lack of resources in the black schools she also writes that even after

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