Post #1 Voice

   This book uses so much loaded, raw language, that is what makes it interesting and it shows the feelings of the person if it is good, bad, anger, greed, or envy. I like how she does not put a filter on it, like she tells the truth just how it is. Then how she describes women in the story are so descriptive like saying they are beautiful angelic creatures in a horrible environment (Stamps) and how do they become so pretty when they are surrounded by filth and poverty. She uses literary devices like metaphors and similes to enhance the reading and to make it more interesting for us to read and to comprehend it. Also the author uses a lot of figurative language; she also uses humor with jokes that are racist but interesting at the same time. Then when says all of these things I think what would happen if I was one of the people in the story? Would I have done something different so this outcome would not have happened? Or would it make it worse that I was Maya and not herself? I think the book presses boundaries of what society is accepting and would inform me of others point of views in the story and how they came to be. Now if I was a writer I would not put that much of loaded language like her but I will put more description so the reader could understand me better without using those words in my story. I like how she stayed positive even though her life has rough patchy bumps along the road. I wonder if she is keeping some stuff from us like can there be some times when it gets so bad that you want nobody to hear about it? Do you close your brain so that you don’t remember it that you don’t want to remember it?