Indledning
This essay will analyze the short story “New Directions” from 1993 written by Maya Angelou. “New directions” is a short story based on how the main character Annie Johnson saved her family by selling homemade pies behind the cotton gin.
This analytical essay will have focused on the setting, themes, message, and characterization, where we will look at the main character. “New directions” is a biographical essay, which is a story about a person who is not the author.
You know it's a story about the author's grandmother because Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood.
Her parents split up when she was very young, and she and her older brother were sent to live with their grandmother, in Stamps, Arkansas, just like in the short story.
The grandmother is providing her grandchildren like Annie Johnson provides her children in the story. The story is from the paste, as shown in this section “the late Mrs. Annie Johnson”.
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, as the main characters name.
She was an American Author, poet, author, instructor, and activist. “New directions” is a story that deals with the theme of hard work.
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When Annie says: “I looked up the road I was going and back the way I come, and since I wasn’t satisfied, I decided to step off the road and cut me a new path.”
This is symbolizing that she wasn’t satisfied with her life, so she decided to change it. She didn’t want to be like the other black women’s.
Annie’s main conflict is that she is an African American in the early 1900s. She had two toddling sons, very little money, and a slight ability to read and add simple numbers.
To this picture add a disastrous marriage and the burdensome fact that Annie was a Negro. The main conflict is solved when she finds a “new direction”, deciding to find a job.
Although she wasn’t a fancy cook she could “mix groceries well enough to scare hungry away and keep from starving a man”. She was making opportunities for what other craved.
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