In the end of "I Know Why The caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou gets pregnant and decides to not tell other family members about it(except Bailey).She decides to finish high school while she was still pregnant. When she told her parents about it they weren't mad and supported her. When the baby was born she was too scared to hold it because she thought she couldn't protect it. At the end of the book Vivian made her sleep with the baby to prove she could handle it and when maya woke up with her child safely in her arms she realized everything was going to be okay and she went back to sleep.
I feel that Maya shouldn't have been scared of knowing whether she could protect her child or not because when she was younger she protected bailey from Mr. freeman. I'm pretty sure that if she could lie about not being raped by Mr. Freeman in front of a court and her mom in order to protect Bailey she could also protect and care for a child especially hers.
I don't think Maya probably liked to think about the incident where she was raped in the first place and it wasn't really lying that protected Bailey, it was just her keeping quiet until she was convinced otherwise.
ReplyDeleteHaving such a baby to take care of is kind of a daunting realization. It's a small human being that you've created and now you have to raise and it's so fragile. Anything can harm him or her. And ya know, Maya always thought the world was going to fall out from under her feet despite her maturing from that mindset a bit since her eighth grade graduation. So that she was worried that she was somehow going to harm her baby isn't so surprising to me.