Maya Angelou

her creative talent. Manora says that the women in Angelou’s life “influenced the woman Angelou became”. She applied Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious and categorised these women into archetypes or primitive mental images that we have inherited from the earliest human ancestors. These include Angelou's mother Vivian, her grandmother Annie Henderson, and Mrs. Flowers, a neighbour who helped Angelou find her voice again after she was raped. Manora says these three women…

Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, writer and a poet. She was born April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She passed away on May 28, 2014 in Winston-Salem, NC. Her actual birth name was Marguerite Johnson. Pam Munoz Ryan was born December 25, 1951 in Bakersfield, Ca. She attended the San Diego University and is a writer. Pamela also teaches at an Oklahoma college. Maya Angelou and Pamela Munoz Ryan are an influence for many people. They are both very similar but different at the same…

Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. In this book, Maya Angelou explains her life and how racism has affected her and helped her to fight for African-American rights. The importance of family is expressed when her grandmother says, “You children is the most ungrateful things I ever did see. You think your momma and poppa went to all the trouble to send you these nice play pretties to make you go out in the cold and cry?” (pg.43). This part is about when Maya Angelou had received gifts from…

Marguerite Ann Johnson was born in St. Louis Missouri on April 4, 1928. Raised in Stamps Arkansas she experienced prejudice and discrimination because she was of African American descent. From her southern education and religious beliefs thru adversity to single motherhood and her self classification as an entertainer. She became a prominent and significant voice of our time. The life course of this remarkable woman would encompass nonnormative and normative life events. A poet Laureate with…

From the prosperity of the 1920s and the poverty of the Great Depression, the Modernist era in American literature brought an end to the sense of optimism that reigned earlier. The disillusionment and uncertainty led to bold new ideas and ideologies that affected each individual differently. The modernist poems in American literature captured the sense of uncertainty through the challenges of segregation and nativist attitudes toward immigrants. Within The United States, the country was in a…

is not fair and he does not have the means to beat the corrupt system. So he just waits and does not help. On the other hand, Dr. Seuss says to go out and make the change, not wait for someone else to do it. Similarly, in her poem, Still I Rise, Maya Angelou faces many obstacles throughout…

The book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is a autobiography of the early 17 years of Maya Angelou’s life. In the book Maya Angelou is Marguerite. Maya and her family encounter many different social issues for being an African American family living in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas. Although many book are inspiring nevertheless I know why the caged bird sings is the most inspiring book because she survived being a person of color,moving forward from being raped multiple…

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 Mr.or Mrs.as a sign of respect. Maya called…

The poems,”Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and”Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou were poems about slavery. Slavery is a practice of owning a slave. Each poem had its own unique feature. As for both of them, they both had a theme of slavery. Though, both poets had lived 100 years apart, their poems were similar. Their tone were both really sad. Their theme as I had said above, were also similar. The difference they had, were their rhyme scheme. Using the caged bird as a slave and the free bird as a…

an eight year old girl is choosing which doll to play with, not choosing to hide her rape. Maya Angelou was cruelly molested and raped by her mother’s live-in boyfriend; he told her that if she told anyone what he did to her, he’d kill her brother. Maya was devastated into a withdrawn shell of herself. Eight years later and two thousand miles away, Angelou becomes pregnant with the child of a stranger (Angelou 77, 279). Parents object to the book “raising sexual issues without giving them a…