Names: By Maya Angelou

Names By Maya Angelou

Done by Sílvia Soares Vanessa Fernandes 11th B

The writer • Maya Angelou was born in 1928 •She is an American actress and poet.

Background of the story • End of nineteenth , and beginning of twentieth century.

• After slavery became illegal.

Description and Setting • Action happens in a town called Stamps. • When the main character is in the tenth year. • The education of black and white girls was very different.

Description and Setting • She starts working in a big house and she doesn’t like her boss.

Plot • Margaret starts being victim of racism by her boss. • She doesn't like it, so she starts doing things wrong. • In the end she is fired, and she is happy with that.

Characters • Main : Margaret (Mary) and Mrs. Voila Cullinan

• Secondary: Miss Glory (Hallelujah)

Margaret:

• Is a black girl that works as a maid

• Has a strong personality and is very decided

Mrs Viola Cullinan

• She is a fat rich woman

• She is singularly unattractive until she smiled

Miss Glory

• Is an efficient cook

• She is very patient with Margaret

Language and Style • Different types of language according to regions

New vocabulary learnt • Vocabulary related to kitchen supply

• Some expressions of 19th and 20th centuries

Discussions points • Racism

• Being white is a signal of superiority facing black people

The End