On Wednesday afternoon of the following week, Mama was sitting on the couch waiting to talk to Maya. “Quiet, boy! You know nothing of these things! Mama yelled.” Maya was shocked because she never yells at her precious boy. I’m sure Maya and those guys were playing. Maya overheard Nurzhan and Mama’s conversation. Maya talked about how she imagined running away like the wind, behind the mini-mart, sailing past the E-Z Dry Cleaner, past the bus stop in an easy gallop through the crosswalk. She knew she could never go to the dance now. Maya told her what happened and then she got in big trouble. Mama was quickly concerned with what Maya did. Once they got home, Papa yelled, “Gulnara!”“Why are you here? What has happened Aibek?” Mama questioned.” Is this how you raise your daughter! Is this what you teach her? Lessons to be a toy for American boys!” Papa shouted. The car was filled with an awkward silence.” The back of his neck was red,” she described.
Maya was scared for her life, she came to the car. The next event in the story was thatMaya waiting for the activity bus when Daniel picked her up and started playing with her. Everything was mild until something really bad happened. He was really mad since he didn’t expect this from Nurzhan. Maya’s dad was still mad even after she translated differently. Maya’s father came to the office and Maya translated what Ms.Johnson was saying, but she changed some of the words so Nurzhan wouldn’t be in big trouble. Maya called and she told Papa that Nurzhan was involved in a fight. Maya knew her dad would be furious, so she developed a plan.
When she heard this she was shocked.” I have to talk to your father about this matter,” Ms.Johnson said. When she got there Ms.Johnson told her that her brother had gotten into a fight with Ossie. Maya didn’t know why she was being called to the office, she was scared. Maya was in class when she got a sudden phone call, it was to the office.
Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.ĭrawing on the rich history of the 1920s,’30s, and beyond-from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women-Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.In the beginning, Maya says that she wants to go to the dance but her parents “don’t like the idea of having after school activities/events.” Mama says that she could be using that time to be doing homework or studying.
And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever.įor Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.