Caged Bird Sings Literary Analysis By Aaliyah Smith Maya Angelou wrote an amazing and entertaining autobiography titled I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings‚ about her hard life growing up as a black girl from the South. Among the hardships are things known as "cages" as stated from a metaphor from Paul Dunbar’s poem "Sympathy." "Cages" are things that keep people from succeeding in life and being everything they want to be. Some of Maya Angelou’s cages include being black in the 1940’s and her
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the
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In the autobiography‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Maya Angelou writes fondly of her mother Vivian Baxter. Maya writes about her mother with admiration of her beauty and grace. In one instance‚ Maya and her brother Bailey compare their mother to the Caucasian actress Kay Francis because of her magnetic personality. The praise Maya gives to her mother is similar to the praise Bee gives to her mother Bernadette in the novel‚ Where’d You Go‚ Bernadette? by Maria Semple. In the novel‚ Bee shows
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Myrlande summary In Maya Angelou’ story "Champion of the World"‚ she narrates about a boxing fight that took place when she was a child while working at her uncle’s store in the 1930’s. The fight was between African-American Joe Louis v. Primo Carnera. The match was being broadcast by a radio her uncle had at the store. It brought African-American together as a community. They gather around the radio to listen to boxing matches. Men‚ women‚ and children come to listen and to buy
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“I’m always sorry that people ban my books. Many times I’ve been called the most banned‚” Maya Angelou‚ the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings lamented. Her books are frequently “challenged” in school libraries across the nation. What makes a banned book? In 1982‚ the supreme court made a ruling declaring the banning of books for their questionable content to be unconstitutional. This ruling was called the Island Trees Board of Education v. Pico. The board demanded the right to remove any
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English Literature Criteria: Assignment 2 Topic: “How is social injustice portrayed in Caged Bird by Maya Angelou and Song to the Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelly?” Word Count: 899 Social injustice is indeed very vividly portrayed in “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou and “Song to the Men of England”. “Caged Bird” is based upon Maya Angelou’s first autobiographical book “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”‚ and the title is taken from
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“Occupation: Conductorette” Introduction: To begin my presentation‚ I will tell you what the story‚ “Occupation: Conductorette”‚ is about. This story is about a woman‚ Maya Angelou‚ who decided to get a job. She wanted to become a Conductorette because her mother told her that she couldn´t become one‚ only for being an Afro-American‚ this made her very angry and she begun fighting for becoming a Conductorette. After a lot of persistence she achieved her goal. During my presentation I will develop
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Encounterʺ‚ Angelou is telling how to survive in a world of racism and being strong in many aspects in life. I definitely think that if you want to be treated with respect and dignity‚ you should follow this wonderful example that is momma´s Encounterʺ. Maya Angelou expressed her personal experiences about a home rutine with momma and the punishments if this rutine was not followed. How momma was strong to not let the powhitetrash kids (as she called them) made her feel inferior. Angelou understood
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Journal #3 (Chapter 21-27) |Quote # 13: "At eleven years old‚ death is more unreal than |My Opinion: An eleven year old is less focused on death because | |frightening (Angelou 160)." |it is more unreal then frightening. Death is one of the last | | |things on a child’s mind because they are more worried about | | |today
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Still I Rise Essay ‘Still I rise’ is a poem written by Maya Angelou‚ it’s about her journey through the struggles she faced as a black woman and her point of view about the whites in the mid 1900’s. In this poem Maya Angelou used a variety of different language techniques‚ like Metaphors‚ repetition and Rhetorical questions. These were used to emphasize her feelings and responses during the time were whites were considered superior. A technique that helped me understand the important message of
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