Mrs. Flowers Reflective Essay

The essay by Maya Angelou, Mrs. Flowers, was how she helped find the voice of an extraordinary and the relationship between them. This essay shows the examples of how actually teachers, mentors, and coaches can take interest in someone. In the past, I had someone like Mrs. Flowers take interest in me. He was my business teacher Mr. Peterkin. He help me become more confident in areas where I was weak. If it wasn’t for teachers like Mrs. Flowers and Mr. Peterkin, Marguerite and I would probably we wouldn’t be where we are today.

Ms. Flowers noticed Marguerite, sets time apart for her, and encourages her to have an opinion. The relationship between Ms. Flowers and Marguerite began with simple smiles from Ms. Flowers which eventually became an

invitation to her home. The two would see each other at the store where Marguerite work and other places in their community. When Ms. Flowers smiled at Marguerite, it made Marguerite feel singled out in a special; she always wanted to have the opportunity to thank Ms. Flowers for smiling at her. The day Ms. Flowers threw her a life line and invited her home is a day Marguerite will never forget. It is Ms. Flowers who introduces the concept of spoken words to Marguerite. As they walked to Ms. Flowers housed it becomes apparent to Marguerite that Ms. Flowers already knows everything about her. She knows that Marguerite does well school and likes read every chance she gets. Ms. Flowers even already has tea and cookies made for Marguerite. As the afternoon progressive Ms. Flowers reads A Tale of Two Cities, to Marguerite. She notes, she “heard poetry for the first time in her life…Her [Ms. Flowers] voice slid in and curved down through and over the words. She was nearly sinning.”
This experience with Ms. Flowers was one of many “lesson in living”. This meetings made her feel “respected not as Ms. Henderson grandchild or Bailey sister for just being Marguerite Johnston... all I care about was that she made tea cookies for me and read to me from her favorite book.”
The time she spends with Ms. Flowers makes her realized that Ms. Flowers actually wants to know what she thinks. These experiences, make Marguerite feel valued and important; her words matter. Ms. Flowers trust that if she assigns Marguerite a task that Marguerite will come back and to ready to discuss what went on in the reading. By doing this Marguerite will be able to communicate her opinions to other people, and be confident that her opinions matter.
The relationship between Marguerite and Ms.

Flowers reminds of my relationship with my high school business teacher, Mr. Peterkin. We would always talk sports inside of class and outside of class. He always wanted to know my opinion on what was going on in the sport world. He would also help with my other classes. For example, my senior capstone project, he help me get my presentation ready, which was my final. He gave pointers on what I should and shouldn’t do during the presentation. I had to present in front a random panel. My panel was the superintendent of my school district, my current math teacher, and a history teacher. I got a 100 on my presentation. Mr. Peterkin helped made my life easier and fun in and out of his class during the last two years of high school. But I had another teacher, who had a negative impact on me. She was my chemistry teacher. One time I went to her for help and she told me she can’t because she told me that she can only focus on my AP classes after telling the telling my class that she would be willing to help us. I hated her. When we weren’t doing labs, she would lecture the time I almost did not pass her class. I ended up with 65 average for the year. The harm that this teacher did was that I have no interest in taking a science a class again. I overcame this person’s negative attitude by not take another science class again because after barely passing chemistry, I told myself that I will never take a science class

again.
If it wasn’t for these teacher Marguerite and I would not be where we are today. But sadly Marguerite Johnston passed away almost over a year ago. But if it wasn’t for Mrs. Flowers, Marguerite would never go on and received dozens of awards from all the books, poems, movies, plays, and songs that she wrote and stared in. Hopefully, I can have do the same as Marguerite, but I would like to change the books and others stuff to building a baseball team that win multiple world series titles; to win the executive of the year award. I am sure Marguerite thanks Mrs. Flowers for everything she did for her and I have done the same thing for Mr. Peterkin. I also promised him tickets, when I become a general manager of a baseball team.