The Mighty Miss Malone

                                                  The Mighty Miss Malone

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Summary:  The Mighty Miss Malone is about Deza Malone, her older brother, and her parents during the Great Depression.  They live in Gary, IN. But Deza's father goes to Flint, MI in search of work. When the rest of the family doesn't hear from him they move there also. Deza, her mother, and her  brother end up in a camp in Flint where they are hungry and homeless. Deza's Brother, who has an amazing singing voice, leaves the camp one day hoping to make some money as a performer. This captivating story shows the struggles and hardships of African American families during the Great Depression.

 (Monologue telling of the characters expieriences) 

 Deza Malone

      May 1936

 One day I woke up very early in the morning to the sound of someone bumping around downstairs.  I went down and saw that Father was up already, and then I saw that mother had come down also. “Why are we all up so early?” I asked. Father told me that he was going fishing with some friends of his in Lake Michigan. When he said they were going to the lake mother threw a fit. She said it was way too dangerous to go fishing in a boat on the lake. But he went anyways saying that we would have some wonderful fish for dinner that night.  That evening I was waiting for father to come home, and I was starting to worry. Finally a knock sounded on our door.  At first I thought it was Father, and I was getting ready to scold him for making us worry. But then I thought, why would Father be knocking? I opened the door and it was Mrs. Henderson, the wife of one of Father’s friends. She told Mother that her husband wasn’t home yet either. She had talked to the wives of the other men and none of them had come home yet. Mother and Mrs. Henderson rushed to get our friend Mr. Rhymes because he is one of the few people that own a car.  And they all went searching for the men. At 8:00 Mother got back home.  She stepped out of the car and I noticed that she had been crying.