1) Summary of Character Traits

 a) School smart (Maya is smart. When she moves to San Francisco from Stamps, Arkansas, she is skipped a grade.)

 b) Caring sister (she always talks of her devotion to Baily)

 c) Determined (she wants to get a job with the streetcar company and she keeps bugging them until they finally give her a job)

 d) Proud (she lives with the junkyard kids instead of going back to her father's; she slaps Dolores for calling her mother a whore)

2) Appearance

 a) African American, tall, skinny, small and squinty eyes, big feet, large gap between her front teeth, black hair

3) What The Character Wants

 a) Maya wants, ultimately, for her family to be happy. She wants the segregation of blacks to end (she is disgusted when young white girls call her grandmother by her first name).

4) How the Character Changes

 a) After being raped, Maya stops talking as much

 b) After spending time......

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