I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings tells the story of Maya Angelou’s early life, full of overpowering situations from her childhood. Maya and her brother, Bailey Jr., face many difficulties but manage to come out ahead. Angelou tells their tales with a sense of wry humor, related to the reader through diction and imagery that leaves a lasting impression. One of the first difficult situations Maya faces was a rape when she was only eight. “Then there was the pain. A breaking and entering…

In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou makes a statement about the power of names often harm or offend people. She shows many examples in the book on how the names were used in offence or to hurt someone. Although they can sometimes be used in a friendly way and can sometimes stick to that person. She showed this with her name from Bailey. Nicknames can also not mean what they say, they mean the opposite of what they’re supposed to mean. To be called any other name but your own…

In the novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou goes from a little southern black girl who wishes to be a “a long and blonde haired, light-blue eyed, white girl”, to a very mature young adult that is proud of her race.…

IKWTCBS Essay Adversity, a word that simply means bad luck or a bad situation. Imagine being an eight year old African American girl living in the south in the year of 1969, that alone is a bad situation. In the novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou, Marguerite Ann Johnson is the eight year old girl that goes through countless hardships. She was moved from Arkansas to Missouri, to multiple cities in California, from living with her grandma to her mother then to her…

The autobiography I selected is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. This book follows the author through her childhood as she struggles to find herself in a world full of prejudice. With an absentee father and an unready mother Maya and her brother were shipped of to Stamps, Arkansas where they lived with their orthodox grandmother, thus forcing Maya to become a woman before she could even become a child. I chose to read this book out of a recommendation from Mrs. Dipede, and to…

Social Class Essay I Know Why the Caged Birds Sings by Maya Angelou depicts the life of a little girl growing up in the South during the 1930s. Maya talks about a few different social classes. Some blacks feel like they are trapped by a white society in this world. She discusses how white supremacy takes a part in life. She also talks about how growing up in the South as a little, poor black girl and how her “Momma” is high up in the black community. Back in the 1930s, White Supremacy…

2017 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and Maya's Hardships I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings was written by an award winning author and poet Maya Angelou. Maya became a civil rights activist. This book was written in the 1930s in a very controversial time in which the United States was fighting over segregation. Maya's parents divorced while she was at a young age. Maya lived with her grandmother who was called momma in Stamps, Arkansas. Big Bailey, Maya's father arrives to take her and Bailey to…

The main character Marguerite in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing by Maya Angelou was torn between many different influences, ambitions, obligations, and desires. Marguerite was born during the depression time. She had to work for what she wanted and needed to stay living. The first conflict deals with God, prejudice, and segregation. Another conflict is involves living with her momma or daddy. That is a major decision she had to make; it would affect her entire life. After analyzing Marguerite…

In the book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya is faced with situations where she is being degraded by the white people around her. The ignorance that Maya has faced while being so young has forced her to become mature early in life. She faces the struggles of an adult, having to stand up for herself for being disrespected as a young girl. The derogatory language that is used is dehumanizing towards Maya and her community, but shapes them to be strong. One of the ways this language…

stereotypes or just plain ignorance, it is something that can affect the victim greatly. It’s very hard to forget hurtful, and disrespectful comments from people, especially when they don’t understand how much of an impact it has. In the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Margaret was surrounded by a lot of racism throughout her life. The book shows race and racism to show how much of a problem it was, and how it impacted Margaret. The book engages race by telling of the many challenges and…