Lay My Burden Down/ Short Story 2

This story is about Mya Angelou when she was growing up. In the beginning she was telling the readers about how clean her mom wanted her to be. She said that if her feet were dirty when she went to bed that she would get whipped with a switch. she said her mom said,"Cleanliness is next to Godliness."
Maya's mom owns a store and some land that a couple of white people live on. I thought that maybe she would get a little respect from them because they live on her land and bought groceries from he store, but they still treat her like she is a slave. Sometimes they boss her around, and Maya doesn't like that very much.
Towards the end of the story Maya's mother is being taunted by a couple of the white kids. One of the kids go as far as doing a handstand without any underwear on. But Maya's mom just stands there a hums a hymn. she lets them know that she isn't bothered ablout anything they do.


I think that there are many important things you can get out of reading this story. The first thing is that you can ignore people who try to pick on you. Another thing is that even if someone is treating you bad, doesn't mean that you have to do them the same way. There are many examples of this in the story.
In the story, maya's grandma ignored all of the children, and didn't say a word to them. She just hummed her hymn and looked. Eventually they left. My mom always told me that,"you kill a person with kindness." I think that that little phrase goes good with this little passage.
In this little passage after the children left Granmother addressed all the children as "Miz." Maya wasn't very pleased with that. Even after the fact that they had made fun of her she still showed them respect. Maya was to young to realize what was going on at the time. Sometimes when you look over pety stuff like that, and turn the other cheek, you get blessings.


I think that these stories are so popular because these are real moments. People like to read about true events in a person's life. I think that there are a couple of events in my life that would be intersting to read about. Maybe I should make my life into a story.