Chapter 20 Maya Angelou - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
During this chapter Maya receives a Valentines note from a boy named Tommy Valdon, he's a grade higher than Maya. When she receives the letter she doesn't know how to react to it so she asks Louise who she met at the festival mention earlier in the chapter. Louise explains valentines day,love, valentines cards, how you should feel and what not. After so she decides that she doesn't want anything to do with the letter or love so they both tear the valentine together. Tommy writes another valentine saying he saw her rip it but still considers her his valentine. After everything that happened they begin to start flirting with each other and hanging around each other more and more.
My Thoughts.
I have never experienced a situation like this one so ill just elaborate on how i feel about the the main things that happen in this chapter. I feel like Maya throws and rips the valentines note because she doesn't like Love. The reason behind that is because of Mr. Freeman and everything he did to Maya, Rape, emotional scarring, and uneasiness. Of course Maya doesn't want to ever have anything to do with love, because thats all that she can recall of when she thinks of love of that sort. Towards the end of the chapter Maya somewhat realizes that Tommy is providing a different kind of love, maybe it being something shes more interested in. She believes that Tommy loves her for her and everything she is, her looks, brains, personality, which in my opinion is the definition of love. To love someone is to love everything about that person flaws and all. Which Maya definitely deserves, someone to genuinely love her after everything she was stripped of at such a young age… i could never imagine going though the circumstances she faced.
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