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A 5 page paper which
examines the early childhood perspectives presented in “Coming of Age in Mississippi”
by Anne Moody. No additional sources cited.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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in the search for identity by Moody. Because of her slave-like environment she was constantly told what to do and to not think about anything but her job. But, Moody
was more than that and she suffered because of this all but nurturing environment. In the following paper we examine her childhood, illustrating how she was firmly instructed to merely
do what she was told and not look beyond that. In doing so we illustrate a slave mentality that Moody was raised in, perhaps representing many experiences in that particular
time and place. Childhood Moodys book opens with the following lines, offering us a very powerful statement in regards to free blacks living with the reality of enslavement
to some degree: "Im still haunted by dreams of the time we lived on Mrs. Carters plantation. Lots of Negroes lived on his place" (11). We see how Moody and
her infant sister were essentially left alone all the time as the parents needed to work in the field, illustrating a lifestyle that was not that different from slavery, a
lifestyle that was stifling and oppressive. These early times were also filled with violence as her eight year old uncle, the one left to watch them, beat her on perhaps
every possible occasion. Moody was four and the uncle, angry because he would rather be running in the woods, would leave her to watch the infant, beating her for no
reason except to prove his anger, and perhaps establish a painful understanding of gender conditions in the mind of Moody. Even in these first two pages we begin to
see what an oppressive life Moody lived. She was only four years old and was the victim of poverty, male domination, and abuse both physical and mental. She may have
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