While fully conscious, Bauby remained trapped in his unresponsive body, like a butterfly in a diving bell. His only means of communication was using his left eyelid, while his right eyelid was sewn shut due to infection. This stroke left him with “locked in syndrome” where he was fully conscious without the means to communicate with the outside world. Jean Dominique Bauby suffered a catastrophic stroke in 1996. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly must have its place in our list of famous stories of hope. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean Dominique Bauby Ultimately, the book is a testament to the power of love and the human spirit to overcome even the most traumatic childhoods. The abject poverty of the community where Maya lived made her success even more unlikely and inspiring. In the heart of the South, she faced racism at its worst and expresses its effects through the eyes of her younger self. The book also explores identity issues when faced with dehumanizing racism, which Maya experienced in her formative years. This discovery sets her on the path of becoming one of the world’s most treasured poets.
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Through reading aloud, Maya begins to learn how to use language to create and heal. Bertha Flowers introduces her to literature. When Maya is returned to Momma, she learns to speak her heart again when Mrs. Maya’s guilt and pain result in her withdrawing into a silence that only Bailey can penetrate. She explores her childhood trauma poetically and poignantly, where the murder of her abuser compounds her trauma from her rape. Maya bares her soul about her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend. She is an indifferent parent, negligent and self-obsessed. Her mother lives a wild life at the gambling parlors.
Maya and Bailey’s lives were upended once more when their father returned them to their mother in St Louis, Missouri. Maya fights her sense of abandonment and self-worth in a community beset by poverty, rampant violence, and racial discrimination. Momma became a center of stability in her formative years. Her grandmother, a shopkeeper, otherwise known as ‘Momma,’ became a strong maternal figure to Maya. She and her brother Bailey were sent to live with her grandmother in rural Stamps, Arkansas. At the age of three, her parent’s divorce divided her family. Maya Angelou recounts her traumatic childhood growing up in the American South in the turbulent 1930’s. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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