Graduation

Becky Harlan (Lee)

Mr. Neuburger

Eng. 101-104

7 February 2013

Synopsis on Graduation

By:  Maya Angelou

Maya is a black girl who us graduating from the eighth grade. She was in the class of 1940. She was very excited along with everyone in her family. This was a big deal for her. The day of her graduation the speaker that came in was a white man. He spoke about how he was so proud of the little Negros graduating and rambled on with a bunch of nonsense. Maya was getting really upset about how this man was ruining her graduation. She felt worthless and useless. She felt like none of this mattered and that everyone should be dead. The man finally finished blabbing and Her friend Henry Reed got up to the podium and gave his speech like he never heard the an talk. He then turned around and started reciting the Negro national anthem. Maya was back to feeling proud about being black again. She wasn’t going to let the white man’s speech bring her down.