... , at the age of three, her parents divorced and Marguerite and her brother, Bailey Jr., who nicknamed her Maya, were sent to live with their father's mother. Thus began the roller coaster of Marguerite's life. She went back and forth from her mother to her grandmother on a couple of occasions. And ... store. They were represented as clownish, dirty, and rather silly. On the other hand, Mama, portrayed as the stronger one, simply stood like a rock and sang the Gospel "Bread of Heaven, feed me till I want no more"(Showalter 5). The beauty of Mama's soul counteracts with the disgusting actio...

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