Toosweet having a salary of 12 dollars a week "wasn't sufficient no more" (Moody, page 9).
Toosweet, being a single mother of four had to provide a house to live in and provide food, clothing and schooling for her children. Throughout the novel Moody shows discontent with her family and fellow black citizens for simply accepting the circumstances and the position in which they lived. In Anne Moody's, Coming of Age in Mississippi she differentiates herself from the rest of African American by questioning the way of life she must undergo due to all the restrictions her family and other African American's that surround her. Contemplating in her own world separate from her family she continuously pondered upon the rules of society and always questions the rules of her elders. Through the time of young ages she shares the difficult times and conditions and how she manages to strive to the best in school and provide for family.
Anne writes about the unspeakable treatment that was socially imposed on African Americans, otherwise known as the Jim Crowe laws. Coming of Age in Mississippi, is heartbreaking story of Anne Moody's unbreakable spirit throughout the first nineteen years of her life.
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