I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

capability of taking notes while reading now. I wouldn’t have been able to grow though without the help from Mrs. Pendell, especially with her way of explaining all of the essays, notes, and assignments in an understandable way. From the beginning of the year to now I can definitely see a huge change in my writing. Especially when looking at my Oedipus the King essay to looking at my Catcher in the Rye essay. I went from getting a B- to an A on the other. I had not cited enough…

I. 1. Contrast the characters of Edna and Adele. What are the major differences between them? Then consider the significance of Edna learning to swim. The first differences to distinguish between both Adele and Edna is that Edna is not Creole, while Adele is a Creole. Adele was committed to both her children and her married life which was expected of the typical Creole wife. For her children, she would make clothes for children regularly and would easily do what her husband expects of her. Edna…

advice or made you inspired by her story of hardships, she was a mother to all of us. Maya was born to Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter Johnson in 1928, but grew up with her grandmother Annie Henderson and her uncle Willie. In her memoir I know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya’s family has both a negative and positive impact on her life. In ways such as, Maya’s encounter with Mr. Freeman, Maya’s bonding with Bailey and Maya’s teenage years living with her mother in California. Childhood, a word…

What would happen if every book on the school’s reading list were to be censored? What if every taboo or politically incorrect topic were to be “edited and updated for political correctness” (Source I) or “blacklisted” and removed from the bill simply because someone’s feelings were hurt when reading or because the subject matter was deemed “too mature” for the audience? If that were the case then most of these classics would reduce to a page full of “and’s”, “the’s”, and “to’s”. The Adventures…

If you are color blind, can you still dream in color? “How It Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston and “Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou are two autobiographies that express a story about the author’s childhood struggle. Both women were black and experienced suppression and discrimination during the 1900s; however, the stories are hardly analogous. “How It Feels to be Colored Me” is the superior story of the two. Hurston forms a more personal story line and uses rhetoric devices…

Every Work of Art Serves a Purpose To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and Animal Farm are well-known literary classics that share a commonality. They have all been banned at some time during their existence. Books are the most commonly banned form of art, but films, music, and video games are subject to this fate as well. One of the first groups of people to ban books for political reasons were the Romans, even though they were considered to be somewhat liberal. In Germany during the 20th…

“I’d rather stick my hands in a dog’s mouth than in a nigger’s,” (Angelou 186). In the autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Marguerite, Maya’s real name, is often told that because of her race, she is worthless. Angelou experiences racism and oppression throughout the novel extensively, but after analyzing it through a postcolonial lens, it becomes clear that race and the oppression one faces does not have to stop them from thriving. Despite what one is told throughout…

well known for "I know why the Caged Bird Sings", one of her volumes of poetry published in 1970. Her poetry highlights her triumph over social obstacles and finding her identity. Angelou was not always a poet. She was a singer, performer, and civil rights activist. "Angelou's poems are a continuum of mood and emotion. They go from the excitement of love to outrage over racial injustice, from the pride of blackness and African American heritage"(Hagen). Two of her poems, "Still I Rise" and "To…

all over town as graffiti. Graffiti is considered deviant because ruining someone's property and destroying property that is not yours. People argue whether spray painting is deviant or actually a form of art. Lastly, the episode, I Don’t Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, shows the deviant act of robbery. Marge goes to the bank and strikes up a conversation with a guy named Dwight. He pulls out a gun and tells everyone to go in the floor. Robbery is considered deviant because it is causing…

Graduation- Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou wrote the short story “Graduation” in her book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” that was published in 1970. Maya is one strong and passionate writer and she does not fail to show her excellent writing skills even in this story. The story’s tone is quite interesting as it is both sad and happy. Consider the part where she explains how the graduating class made their way to the hall: girls holding hands and not bothering to speak to the juniors. They were…