I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

real life. We read 4 stories about adults helping teens. Thank You Ma’am by: Langston Hughes, about a boy with a bad home life when a stranger helps him. The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by: Ray Bradbury, about a scared drummer boy in a battle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by: Maya Angelou, about a girl who isn’t herself anymore. Lastly, The Medicine Bag by: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, about a boy embarrassed about his grandpa. In “Thank You Ma’am” By: Langston Hughes, Rodger, an adolescent boy…

suicide. She presents the bird and herself as one. Secondly, Bronte expresses her deep despair feeling when she says; “In exhausted woe”. This gives the reader a clear descriptive sense of how she is…

Throughout this unit I read several poems that portrayed freedom in various different ways. These poems all showed aspects of freedom in one way or another. To be more specific, the poems that I really thought depicted freedom are “Dream variations” and “I too” by Langston Hughes. In addition to those is the poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem “Dream Variations” written by the poet Langston Hughes shows many examples of the desire for freedom. For instance, this poem mainly is…

“Sympathy” has lost all hope. In my own opinion I believe that “Sympathy” did the best job in portraying the American Dream, though not the side everyone usually thinks of. I think “Sympathy” portrayed the other side of the American Dream, not the white picket fence family, but the minority groups that have to work hard to get where they want to be. Although it may seem that “Sympathy” is more pessimistic than “We Wear The Mask” and less hopeful, I think it is more realistic in what American is…

poems known as ‘Caged bird’ is most cleverly summed up by a quote written by Maya herself, “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Her experiences of freedom, or lack of freedom were formed during her childhood. She was born into the world just years before World War II began and during The Great Depression, where 8 million people became unemployed, and most families lost their source of income and this is where many ideas from ‘Still I Rise’ and…

In the middle of the 1950s, Angelou career started to take effect in her life. She got a job with the touring production of Porgy and Bess, and it later on appeared on one of the off Broadway productions named Calypso Heat Wave, and being able to release her first album called Miss Calypso. The timing of the Broadway productions, she presented on a show called, “The Blacks,” with James Earl Jones, Lou Gossett Jr, and Cicely Tyson. Angelou eventually married, he was a Greek electrician, and a…

From the very beginning of Francine Prose’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Can’t Read”, the topic of her argument appears to be one concerned with the failing education system, contributed, in part, by the failure of teachers to effectively teach literature, focusing on the moral values that can be taken from a particular work rather than focusing on the actual literary content, and the lack of literary works that encourage a love of literature and are complex in nature. However, Prose’s arranging…

Introduction: Welcome listeners to this Episode of Literature Round Table in our Open Learning Podcast Series. Today, we are going on a journey into the magnificent world of poetry and I am your host David Sea, a student from Indooroopilly State High School. Poetry to me is unique. It does not need a plethora of explanation, just a powerful message, image and meaning of the sweetness or the bitterness experiences from the bottom of the poet’s heart to tell the story. However, different poets…

through Celia’s multiple struggles in which she struggles with self-identity. The main difference between this novel and Maya Angelou’s is that “The Color Purple” is slightly fantasized, whereas Angelou’s work was very real. The third and final novel that I studied is “The Bluest Eye”, this…

from losing a game, or from getting a bad grade. Failing can mean different things but in some shape or form we all react the same to failure. We all want to try again when we fail and erase our mistakes. In the poem written by Maya Angelou titled “Caged Bird” it talks about being able to believe in yourself and push yourself even if you’ve made mistakes in the past. The poem “Mother to Son” written by Langston Hughes it speaks about a mother telling her son she’s been through alot but that…