Answer to Question #212860 in English for Molly

Question

TEXT A

GUY

Maya Angelou

The breezes of the west African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy and then disappearing into the utter blackness. Daylight was equally insistent, but much more bold and thoughtless. It dazzled, muddling the sight. It forced through my closed eyelids, bringing me up and out of a borrowed bed into brand new streets.

After living nearly two years in Cairo, I had brought my son guy to enter the University of Ghana in Accra. I had planned to stay for 2 weeks with a friend or colleague, subtle guy into his dormitory and then continue to the library at 2 a job with the development of information.

Why was 17 and quick. I was 33 and determined. we were black Americans in West Africa,where for the first time in our lives the colour of our skin was accepted as correct and normal.

a) what do you think is the writer's purpose in this text? provide to relevant examples from the text to support your answer

Answer 1

The writer’s purpose of the text is to expose the state of racism in the other parts of the world like the United States. He feels that the environment in Africa for African Americans is in sharp contrast with what happens in the United States. The writer feels that in Africa, the environment is welcoming and pleasing to Black Americans whereas hash for them in America where the color of their skin is never accepted as normal and correct.