Part one of term paper
"I will not allow anybody to minimize my life, not anybody, not a living soul- nobody, no lover, no mother, no son, no boss, no president, no body." (Maya Angelou) In Maya Angelou’s , she, Maya, tells the reader about the challenges and praises throughout her life. She gets across to the reader that the number of things that have ...

Part two of term paper
... Angelou began her "rigid work on yellow legal pads" (pg. 9) where she let her ideas flow. The content of those legal pads resulted in a bestseller, of which contained Maya Angelou’s flowing style, the use of dialect, settings, and characterization. Dialect is very influential to the tone of Angelou’s autobiography, as it was to the tone of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd. It was only through the dialect that the reader was able to understand Billy’s character. As in Billy Budd, ...