Graduation by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou “Graduation describes the poignancy of a young girl’s graduation from junior high at a time that racism ran high. ... Maya’s own personal life was of hardship and defeat which like the young girl in “Graduation”, she was able to overcome. In comparing the excitement surrounding the Junior High School Graduation to the High School Graduation brings out the sense of the coming out to challenge the world. ... The whole graduation experience is one to be remembered.