The Darkest Struggles When Maya Angelou wrote the book “I know why the caged bird sings” she was speaking from her very on soul and pouring out the deep feelings she had felt when she was younger‚ all the way up until she was a young adult. African American women will always have more on their shoulders more than any other race especially white women will. No one really knows if all of the discrimination started because of the color of our skin or the attitude that lingers in our voice. Only
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“I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother‚ who was understandably jealous of my beauty‚ had turned me into a too-big Negro girl‚ with nappy black hair‚ broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil” (Angelou 2-3). This quote from Maya Angelou’s memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings acts as an example of how racism had already made its way into Maya Angelou’s life‚ despite her being such a young age. Maya Angelou portrays this theme of racism throughout
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Francine Prose‚ the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”‚ develops her stance that present day literature is stunting student’s abilities when it comes to reading. Prose develops credibility on the subject as she is a mother of two sons in school and an active reader. Research has been done to support her claims as she supplies irrefutable evidence as tp why reading in school has declined. Overall‚ I agree with Prose’s point of view that literary standards are falling due to the fact
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Analysis: Chapters 1–5 The lines from the poem Maya cannot finish‚ “What are you looking at me for? I didn’t come to stay . . .” capture two of the most significant issues she struggles with in her childhood and young adulthood: feeling ugly and awkward and never feeling attached to one place. First‚ Maya imagines that though people judge her unfairly by her awkward looks‚ they will be surprised one day when her true self emerges. At the time‚ she hopes that she will emerge as if in a fairy-tale
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I chose Dr. Lincoln because he shows how racist people were before in that time and how they could be given a lot and still not help them if they were black. I came across Dr. Lincoln in chapter 24 in a book called I Know Where The Caged Bird Sings. Dr. Lincoln is a man that went through school to get a degree to get a dentistry. Dr. Lincoln looks like a normal or in other words common white guy. He is a normal white guy because he has brown hair‚ blue eyes. He wears a white jacket because he is
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This is discussed in Francine Prose essay‚ “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read.” Prose explains how not only is education important and that we have good teachers to teach but also that the teachers are teaching good material. Prose says in her essay‚ “... I find myself‚ each September‚ increasingly appalled by the dismal list of texts that my sons are doomed to waste a school year reading.” ( Prose
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“5 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Starting College” 1. No-one is going to push you to work harder‚ if you fail‚ you’re out‚ that’s it. College is much different from high school. In High School‚ you have teachers‚ parents‚ and friends all reminding you to do well in school and make sure to finish your homework. As much as you want to think that is the case in college‚ it is not. Most likely‚ you are not living at home anymore or are away at a dorm‚ and your professors aren’t there to make
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woman of her health and age would have been expected to carry the paper sacks home in one hand‚ but Momma said‚ ‘Sister Flowers‚ I’ll send Bailey up to your house with these things.’” (lines 61–63) “She appealed to me because she was like people I had never met personally.” (line 46) Unit 2 Grade 9 83 Reading Skill: Analyze Perspectives Though autobiographies are written in first-person point of view‚ they often reflect two different perspectives. • the perspective of the writer
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and asks the questions of interpretation at the end. He knows the story‚ but one senses that he does not have omniscience‚ that he is not there himself. He knows more than the populace and king‚ yet he does not know and will not reveal the outcome. That seems unfair—he leaves his readers dangling—but that is his purpose from the beginning. The story is a tour de force‚ hinging on a gimmick. What is annoying is that the narrator seems to know the ending but will not tell it. However‚ the tale may
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man is born equal. I disagree‚ however‚ some are born into more luxurious lives‚ some are born disabled with no way to recover‚ and some are born with a special “ticket” through life called talent. In fact‚ the only time that we are truly equal is in death. No one gets to buy‚ run‚ swim‚ jump‚ or debate their way out of death. This is a fact shown clearly to the reader in Maya Angelou’s book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings in Chapter 26 when she states‚ “... and all the way I communed with death’s
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