In “Graduation”, Maya Angelou uses a persuasive message to carry out her thoughts to the readers, to understand how graduations where held in the segregated time. She had gave great details by incorporating how racism affected the graduation and of how high school graduation differ from her own. Angelo had projected her message throughout the excerpt by finding self-discovery in her character. She gives the readers an impression of how schooling is infact a significant measure that should be taken. Also, her style of rhetoric is delighted but turns into distress.Throughout, she had given a approach that vividly illustrates her emotional upsurge to the bias and discrimination that was being shown.
To begin, the author had initiated with the start of how the community was anxiously getting ready for the graduation preparation. With students being timid with there graduating class promoting getting closer to the attire being picked.