In the Norton reader there is a selection from “I know why the caged bird sings” that is called “Graduation” written by Maya Angelou. The selection “Graduation” is part of an autobiography of Maya Angelou. In this selection Angelou writes about the excitement and also about the difficulties of growing up in a segregated society. Maya Angelou shares what is like to be full of potential and to only be expected to live up to set standards because of the color or their skin. Maya Angelou tells about the wonderful feeling that she has about graduating, but then the anger she also feels because society tells her she is limited to furthering her educating simply because she is African American. For Angelou and other African Americans in those times
