Breaking out of the cage
Maya Angelou
Maya had issues in her past that made her stronger and more powerful than she was before. For example, she was raped, had to deal with terrible racemes and had a baby at 16. Maya showed that she wasn’t going to let others bring her down and that made her writing better. She was called one of the greatest writers of her time. She was a great child of course but with any child she made mistakes. Maya Angelou, turned life struggles into life goals. She became everything she wanted to be and more. Maya was born on April 9,1928 In ST. Louis Missouri and died on May 28,2014. She had always enjoyed writing as young child. Writing became a safe space for her when she couldn’t speak her feelings. She began to understand why she enjoyed reading and writing when she was mute for seven years. When Maya got older she went to college at, California labor school on a scholarship. Her mother wasn’t around most of her life and that was hard for her. At one point in her writing and an interview she said that there were two types of parents the ones that are great with children and the one with teens. Her mother in her eyes was the one great at teens. …show more content…
She was brought into this world as Marguerite Ann Johnson, but her older brother Baily could not say her first name so he said Maya and it stuck. Mayas parents spilt up when she was a toddler. After her parents split Maya and her brother Bailey were sent to stay with their father’s mother. When she got older she could see her mother and father again but they were not together. When Maya was visiting her mother, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the time, Mr. Freeman. He told her quoting Mayas words “if you ever tell anybody what we did, I’ll have to kill bailey.” [“I know why the cage bird sings” by Maya Angelou, page 62 paragraph
Maya Angelou
Maya had issues in her past that made her stronger and more powerful than she was before. For example, she was raped, had to deal with terrible racemes and had a baby at 16. Maya showed that she wasn’t going to let others bring her down and that made her writing better. She was called one of the greatest writers of her time. She was a great child of course but with any child she made mistakes. Maya Angelou, turned life struggles into life goals. She became everything she wanted to be and more. Maya was born on April 9,1928 In ST. Louis Missouri and died on May 28,2014. She had always enjoyed writing as young child. Writing became a safe space for her when she couldn’t speak her feelings. She began to understand why she enjoyed reading and writing when she was mute for seven years. When Maya got older she went to college at, California labor school on a scholarship. Her mother wasn’t around most of her life and that was hard for her. At one point in her writing and an interview she said that there were two types of parents the ones that are great with children and the one with teens. Her mother in her eyes was the one great at teens. …show more content…
She was brought into this world as Marguerite Ann Johnson, but her older brother Baily could not say her first name so he said Maya and it stuck. Mayas parents spilt up when she was a toddler. After her parents split Maya and her brother Bailey were sent to stay with their father’s mother. When she got older she could see her mother and father again but they were not together. When Maya was visiting her mother, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the time, Mr. Freeman. He told her quoting Mayas words “if you ever tell anybody what we did, I’ll have to kill bailey.” [“I know why the cage bird sings” by Maya Angelou, page 62 paragraph