Maya Angelou
A bird takes off from a nest and flies through the sky, eventually landing on a telephone wire. From there she sits all day, but does not sing. She does not sing because she is hurt, she is in pain, but through courage and rehabilitation she learns to sing the most beautiful song. This describes the story of Maya Angelou. As a child Maya was abused and lost her confidence to speak or sing(in reference to the bird analogy) But over the many years of her life, she used her experiences and her damaged state of being, to evolve into a confident, successful, and socially active woman, who became very famous for the things she has accomplished.
Marguerite Annie Johnson, now known as Maya Angelou was born on April 4,1928 in St. Louis, …show more content…
During her years abroad, Maya read and studied viraciously mastering 6 different languages. To add to her activities abroad, she met with the American dissident leader, Malcolm X in his visits to Ghana and corresponded with his visions and view regarding the racially polarized vision of youth, and his vision of the true maturity of youth. After returning to the United States, Maya used her experiences in her life as inspiration to write her most famous work, “I know why the caged bird sings”. Her literary muse continued to thrive as she continued to produce more books, poems, and screenplays such as Georgia, Georgia in 1972, in which she was the first african american woman to have a screenplay produced based on a novel. Furthermore, Maya was fluent in many languages such as English, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and West African Fanti. She developed skills like language, singing, dancing, and writing throughout her experiences in her life, whether it be traveling across the world, or across the United …show more content…
Maya wrote about the good, she wrote about the bad, she wrote about the ugly and all the in between. The title of the story “I know why the caged bird sings” describes how Maya felt like a caged bird throughout her life life after she was sexually abused. When Maya went virtually mute, she felt as if she were a bird trapped in a cage of fear, afraid to sing. But over many years and accomplishments, Maya found the courage and the strength to speak out and take action to become her full potential. This book was given many different awards and praised by many critics and other authors in the literary community, as well as the african american community, and the community of those who went through similar experiences of which Maya went through in the bad period of her childhood
A bird takes off from a nest and flies through the sky, eventually landing on a telephone wire. From there she sits all day, but does not sing. She does not sing because she is hurt, she is in pain, but through courage and rehabilitation she learns to sing the most beautiful song. This describes the story of Maya Angelou. As a child Maya was abused and lost her confidence to speak or sing(in reference to the bird analogy) But over the many years of her life, she used her experiences and her damaged state of being, to evolve into a confident, successful, and socially active woman, who became very famous for the things she has accomplished.
Marguerite Annie Johnson, now known as Maya Angelou was born on April 4,1928 in St. Louis, …show more content…
During her years abroad, Maya read and studied viraciously mastering 6 different languages. To add to her activities abroad, she met with the American dissident leader, Malcolm X in his visits to Ghana and corresponded with his visions and view regarding the racially polarized vision of youth, and his vision of the true maturity of youth. After returning to the United States, Maya used her experiences in her life as inspiration to write her most famous work, “I know why the caged bird sings”. Her literary muse continued to thrive as she continued to produce more books, poems, and screenplays such as Georgia, Georgia in 1972, in which she was the first african american woman to have a screenplay produced based on a novel. Furthermore, Maya was fluent in many languages such as English, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and West African Fanti. She developed skills like language, singing, dancing, and writing throughout her experiences in her life, whether it be traveling across the world, or across the United …show more content…
Maya wrote about the good, she wrote about the bad, she wrote about the ugly and all the in between. The title of the story “I know why the caged bird sings” describes how Maya felt like a caged bird throughout her life life after she was sexually abused. When Maya went virtually mute, she felt as if she were a bird trapped in a cage of fear, afraid to sing. But over many years and accomplishments, Maya found the courage and the strength to speak out and take action to become her full potential. This book was given many different awards and praised by many critics and other authors in the literary community, as well as the african american community, and the community of those who went through similar experiences of which Maya went through in the bad period of her childhood