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In the beginning of the book, Maya is not suffering like a typical black female in the united states. Maya nevertheless feels that people judge her unfairly due to her dark skin. She daydreams that she is a blond-haired, blue-eyed girl trapped in a "black ugly dream" and will soon wake up and reveal her true self. Besides the general difficulties associated with growing up as a black girl in the South, the South presents Maya with three main social obstacles, white prejudice, black powerlessness, and female subjugation. Maya also endures many hardships in her lifetime. Maya's parents abandoned her and her brother when Maya was three, she is raped by Mr. Freeman, she directly experiences racism, Mrs. Cullinan tries to demean her and change her name, dentist Dr. Lincoln says he would rather stick his hand in a dog's mouth than treat Maya's problem, and the list continues throughout her life.
Maya's older brother, Bailey is the most important person in......

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