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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…

this free verse poem Angelou further demonstrates the need for a companion in which one shares love with through metaphors and symbolism. “There are some millionaires / With money they can’t use / Their wives run round like banshees / Their children sing the blues / They’ve got expensive doctors/ To cure their hearts of stone. / But nobody / No, nobody /Can make it out here alone.” In these verses Angelou speaks not about physical loneliness, but rather emotional solitude. In the poem the author…

Maya Angelou was one of the most influential authors of her time. Through her autobiographies, she told a story of growing up as a black woman in a time of prominent racism and sexism. Angelou combined the worlds of activism and literature to stand up for what she believed in. She was the victim of abuse and was able to overcome the adversity. Because of the challenges she faced, she became an active advocate of civil rights. She was known for her outspokenness and her ability to make the…

friend, and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou was a prominent and undoubtedly successful figure throughout the second half of the twentieth century. With many successes throughout her lifetime, Angelou is known for her poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as well as her contributions to the Civil Rights movement. However, many events and people contributed to Angelou’s works and art style. Commonly labeled as a “Renaissance Woman,” Maya Angelou conquered and achieved much in literature, art,…

American business man, Howard Schultz, once said, “In times of adversity and change, we discover who we are and what we’re made of.” In the novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Maya experiences many different forms of adversity. Maya was a very troubled as a child due to her abandonment problems, being placed in unsafe environments, and a problem of reliance on her older brother, Bailey. In the novel, Maya and Bailey are sent from their parents to live with their grandmother…

Response Essay: "Song of the Humming Bird" by Graciela Limon Huitzitzilin; the name of the story’s protagonist and a word in the Nahuatl language that means Hummingbird. The book, Song of the Humming Bird, written by Graciela Limon was published in the year of 1996 and was accepted by the public as a sympathy opening story. In this book, we read about an elderly woman who lives in a convent in Mexico City in 1853 after living through the Spanish invasion over the Aztecs. She speaks to a new…

Aja Monet is a writer and performance poet. Monet is of Cuban American descent and focuses on activism through her poetry. Monet is an advocate of the Say Her Name Campaign, a project devoted to eliminating police brutality, and she also works on community organizing with The Community Justice Project and The Dream Defenders. Monet's VICE interview titled Aja Monet is not OK with your Apathy is revealing and compelling. In it she shares her early love of writing and poetry. She says “I started…

Capital Punishment and moms in Prison reminds me of one of the great Author books “I know why the caged birds sings.” The Death Penalty also known as “Capital Punishment” meaning an execution sanctioned by the government to be put to death should not be legal in my opinion because if that person is innocent and is eventually executed it is not possible to make that right to that person or reverse that decision because death is permanent. There is no way to compensate a person that has been put…

during this time period and went through the stress of having people discriminate on her because of her skin color. The civil rights movement made a personal influence on Maya Angelou’s poetry, as revealed in her poems , “ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, and ,” Still I Rise”. Growing up during the 1930’s was difficult for Maya Angelou because it was a time of discrimination and separation. Angelou was born in year 1928 , state of Missouri, and was later moved to live with her grandmother…