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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, is the autobiography of a character named Marguerite, later known as Maya Angelou. The book takes the reader to Maya’s arrival in Stamps, Arkansas. Through the writer’s vivid portrayals of events, the reader experiences Maya’s insecurity, her love of family, her experiences which were so important in her growing up, and her visits to her mother and father. On one of these visits to her mother’s, Maya is assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend. The…

Maya Angelou demonstrates that the human spirit is powerful. One in her famous collection of poems, “Still I rise” is a great example. It conveys the idea that no matter the situation, from oppression of race and sex to the chained up history of her past, her spirits continues to stay strong. Using her experience and simple but powerful words, she expresses the power of the human spirit to all audiences. At the start of the poem, Angelou creates an atmosphere of gloom and sadness with sinister…

If you have followed her career, then no doubt you have seen her during her ‘Veronica Mars’ days. While many now know her as the voice behind Princess Ana in ‘Frozen,’ Kristin Bell went to New York University before she became famous. Born in 1980, Kristen Bell began her acting career in stage productions. But as a teenager, she took on her studies like most teenagers. Before her first year in high school, Bell’s parents decided to pull her out from the public school system. They had her attend…

The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton writes about the need for freedom and so does “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou. In recap, the story writes about slaves who were stolen from Africa and brought to the South. The people that were taken had wings, but being that the ships to the south were so crowded they had to shed their wings to all fit on. Furthermore, they all forgot how to fly, forgetting they could fly all together. At the plantation there a had been on man, Toby, who remembered the…

In the book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou people call others by different names. Names can be a sign of respect, be accepting, can be insulting, or be embarrassing. We'll focus on the first three for this. Did you know that saying “Stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” well in this story it’s something else. First off names can be a sign of respect. During the period of the book it was required by all blacks to address the whites by…

well known writers and people inspired Angelou to write some of her most famous pieces of work, also inspired her to get involved in the civil rights movement. Angelou has many famous works, however she is very well-known for: I know why the Caged Bird Sings. In that autobiography, Angelou pours out the first seventeen years of her life, then writes about her years following in another. Maya Angelou is a well known writer whose work will long be read because it deals with human conditions and…

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928. Maya grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou is a female that is a black American American that liked to experience. At a very young age Maya parents had split up. At the age of 7, during a visit with her mother, Maya was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Growing up as a teenager Maya had a baby at the age of 16 as a teenage mom that also dropped out of high school. She had a son name Guy Johnson. Maya Angelou…

The Caged Bird and “The Long Walk Home” The caged bird in Richard Pearce’s screenplay, “The Long Walk Home,” is know one because the caged bird will always be locked up and at the end of the screenplay the African Americans end up being free. Although the white people don’t like the concept of African Americans joining in with them, they are going to have to learn how to live a normal life with them. In the middle of the movie Miriam gets scared when Odessa brings up the topic when all the…

People’s Campaign, however; she declined to help until after her birthday on April 4, 1968. His assassination on that very day deeply depressed her, and led to the existence of her seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. King was not the only important activist Angelou was involved with; her efforts also extending to Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid. Her extraordinary life was documented in her writings, which earned critical acclaim and are the…

Many authors write about the people in their lives; they write about their built relationships, and their fallen ones; authors write of inspirational topics such as freedom, death, heaven, slavery. Like such authors, Maya Angelou does so as well, in poem “Alone” she answers the trivial question of where one's soul resides. Maya Angelou’s poem “Alone” embodies the concept of being discontent, pretense and need. This poem demonstrates that those who lack friendships and love tend to feel lonely…