British Novel Response #3

This was a really good book. After getting finished with the book I understand it more. The first beginning of the book was very hard to understand and it was confusing. The book was over all just her point of view about the world back then. "What you looking at me for? I didn't come to stay..." I didn't understand this peom at first but now I do. It relates to her being black. Back then African Americans had no power over a lot of things.

White people were like stars, black people had to respect whites back then. My favorite part of the book is when Maya's teeth were aching and grandma took her to the dentist in stamps that she said owed her a favor for letting him get money during the depression a while back. She took Maya to him and told him the she needed a dentist to look at her teeth. He said "I would rather stick my hands in a dog's mouth than stick my hands in a niggers."
After he said that she asked him one more time reminding him that he owes her money.

He said "I paid your money back already and thats a policy that I have to follow, I don't have nigger patients." When he closed the door in their faces she told Maya to back up and wait for her. She opened his door and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and told him she would kill him if her grandchild wasn't out side. She also demanded him to leave stamps and never come back, she also told him that he better start a new career other than being a dentist. He said "yes Ma'ma. I really liked that part. I guess she did not want he grandchildren to know her streghts.