For this week’s blog assignment read, and annotate My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou).
In this reading Maya Angelou speaks about herself as a child named Margaret learning her way around the kitchen working as an understudy of a household servant by the name of Ms. Glory, who has worked in this house for twenty years. They worked for a woman named Mrs. Cullinan a wealthy woman from Virginia who was unable to bear children and her husband had lead a double life which produced two children. Margaret secretly felt sorry for her. When Mrs. Sullivan choose to listen to her other women friends and shorten Margaret’s name for her own convenience. Margaret decided to find a way to quit her job and in a way her mother wouldn’t be oppose to since it was something that you would not quit a job for back in that time. Margaret decided to break a glass casserole dish and two green glass coffee cups that she knew that Mrs. Cullinan adored, that had been passed down by her mother. : Did you agree with Margaret's choice to break the casserole dish and two green glass cups? I can’t say whether I agree or disagree with her decision to break the dishes. Back in those times I’m sure it was hard to get a job and like Ms. Glory tried to tell her in the story she had kept this job for twenty years and her name was changed also, but some things are not worth giving attention to. Also in another sense, Ms. Glory got hit with the piece of dish by and accident and that could have been a wakeup call for her to start standing up for herself as well. You have to pick and choose your battles. : 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? I would have to say the time I refuse to obey is when I was about thirteen years old and my parents had always been Jehovah witnesses. Every week on Sunday we would go to the kingdom hall (place of worship for Jehovah witnesses} and me being the child I had to follow suit. Until one day I told my parents that I wanted to explore other religions.
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