Section 7 (pages 184-208) Summary and Analysis

Guy picked Ms. Angelou up at the airport and took her back to her house, where he had a chicken dinner waiting for her. Ms. Angelou knew her son and knew he had something to tell her, so she prodded him into speaking. Finally, Guy told his mother that although he loved her very much and that she was a very good mother to him, he was a grown man and wanted to live his own life his own way. Ms. Angelou had reached the time when she must accept that her little boy was gone, and there was nothing she could do to change that fact.

Efua appeared at Ms. Angelou's door and announced that Africa was falling apart. A boy had died a few days before, and his body was not claimed. This rarely ever...