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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the autobiography of Maya Angelou‚ an African American woman raised in the early 1900s‚ and an inspiration to all. As a child‚ she knew her parents had sent Bailey and her to live with their grandmother‚ and believed it was her fault. At the young age of six‚ she meets her father again who takes Bailey and her to meet their mother in St. Louis. For the first few years of her life‚ she suffered from the guilt of being sent away and worse believing that her mother

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    Grade: 10 Title: “I Know Why the Caged Bird sings” Author: Maya Angelou 1. In the memoir the passage reveals Ritie’s self image. She characterizes herself as unappealing she does not see beauty within who she is. Ritie’s childhood led to her insecurities. When she was younger her parents took her to move with her grandparents. She believed her parents dishonored her. Ritie did not find her skin beautiful. She believed white was beauty. She was an uncomfortable in her own skin. She tried

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    Caged Bird” written by Maya Angelou published in 1983‚ was a poem stating that people of her ethnicity were referred to be the caged bird and the other bird to represent the white supremacy. During the time when Maya Angelou was born‚African Americans faced discrimination and a range of circumstances. The only logical way to stand up for themselves was using their voice. Maya Angelou uses repetition to strengthen the concept of how African Americans wanted freedom even when their dictators did not

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    Maya Johnson encountered many struggles in her life growing up in the South and that is what inspired her to write the book‚ I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings. Maya had many role models in her life like Momma‚ Bailey‚ and Mrs. Flowers. Maya’s grandmother‚ Annie Henderson‚ or otherwise referred to as Momma in the story was a role model because of her strict rules that she enforced. Bailey Johnson was Maya’s brother and friend that helped Maya through tough situations when she needed someone to talk to

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    The world today with its racism‚ corruption‚ and discrimination‚ is lucky to have such an inspirational author as Maya Angelou. In her works of poetry‚ drama and memoir‚ she describes the imperfections and perversions of humanity‚ men‚ women‚ black‚ and white with an unrelenting and sometimes jarring candor. In her first autobiography‚ "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"‚ she describes her own experiences as a Black African American girl growing up in the deep south of Stamps‚ Arkansas. James Baldwin

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    In I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou describes her experiences growing up as an insecure black girl in Stamps‚ Arkansas in the 1930’s and later moving to California in the 1940’s. Maya’s parents divorced when she was three years old. Her older brother‚ Bailey and Maya were sent to Stamps‚ Arkansas to live with their grandmother‚ Anne Henderson. Anne‚ whom they called Momma‚ ran the only general store in the black section of Stamps‚ Arkansas. Momma became a strong moral female

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    Sordino finds herself excluded from every clique in school due to the events of the previous summer- the details of which she only reveals slowly to the reader. *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ by Maya Angelou. Written at the end of American Civil Rights movement‚ this autobiography explores the isolation and loneliness faced by Angelou‚ and the attributes of her character that helped her cope with the prejudices of society. *Go Ask Alice‚ by Anonymous. This book claims to be the actual diary

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    make us endure the harsher paths in order to leave with newfound strengths. Throughout I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou portrays her experiences with adversity‚ as well as the experiences of many others‚ how she copes with them and how she rises above them. Growing up in Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ Maya feels that an enormous displacement from her peers and family while facing the cruelty of racism and sexism. Maya exposes the reality of adversity in all its forms and by the end of the novel‚ we learn

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    unique literary genre. In reading Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ one is able to directly detect several events in her life‚ which had a significant impact on her personal development and her understanding of society. Upon her return to Stamps‚ Arkansas‚ from the damaging stay in St. Louis‚ Maya undergoes a drastic transformation. She is mute and morose‚ and it seems certain to the reader that she will tragically continue on in this

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    Maya Angelou’s occupation Conductorrette from I know Why the Caged Bird Sings is written in the first-person point of view. The narrator is a fifteen-year-old black girl. She wants to find a job that will suit her age but that will also be one the really has an interest for. The narrator decides she wants to be the first Negro on the San Francisco streetcars. Getting the job‚ however‚ wasn’t an easy task‚ and neither was having to deal with the discrimination of her co-workers. In the beginning

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