Our Grandmothers By Maya Angel

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is an escape from modern day life. As readers, we observe everything that the narrator and the main character experience. To fulfill the imagination of the readers, Maya Angelou concentrates primarily as to how the readers are going to interpret certain events. Secondly, the setting was also illustrated through imagery when the narrator says, “She stands before the abortion clinic, / confounded by the lack of choices…/ …On lonely street corners, / hawking her body” (“Our Grandmothers”, 94-106). These few selected lines are important to the development of imagery through the setting. Here the narrator comments, that even though slavery was a thing of the past, it still exists in modern day society. The readers feel as if they are actually there, undermining the role of the main character and experience the horrors of living in a racially discriminatory world. The feel of standing on the corner prostituting one’s self to make ends meet ...

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