What feelings does 8-year-old Maya experience during and after the rape?
Why does Maya become mute? Why does her mother send her and Bailey back to Stamps?
Maya describes Stamps as follows: “The barrenness of Stamps was exactly what I wanted, without will or consciousness. […] Into this cocoon I crept” (89). Explain what Stamps represents at that point that St. Louis could not be for her.
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