Maya Angelou's The Graduation
Throughout life graduation, or the next level of growth, is sometimes known with the circumstance of the grand ceremony, but many times the graduation is not as exciting. In the moving essay, "The Graduation," by Maya Angelou applies three strategies - an expressive voice, illustrative comparison and contrast, and flowing sentences with imagery - to see the truth about humans caught in the line of racial discrimination.

In a great voice, Ms. Angelou pictures a small black community waiting graduation day fifty-five years ago. She describes the children, "visibly with anticipation", and the teachers being, "respectful of the now quiet and aging seniors." Although it is right that her voice in the first six paragraphs described how they, the black children in stamps, felt and acted before the mood of the voice changes to a knowing or seeming to know everything narrator in the seventh paragraph. Her expressing voice carefully built the......

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Title: Graduation By Mya Angelou
Approximate Word Count: 514
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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