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Maya Angelou, a poet, writer, and civil rights activist. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri as Marguerite Annie Johnson. Her childhood was very difficult. Her parents split when she was very young. Her and her older brother, Bailey were sent to live with their grandmother in Arkansas. She had to endure racial discrimination. One day while visiting her mother, her mother’s boyfriend raped her. She was so traumatized by the incident that she became mute. Maya moved to San…

Caged bird served cultural significance by expressing how the bird feel inside the cage, wishing they could get out and enjoy the ‘’springing grass’’. But even knowing their fate they still trying. Dunbar’s bird’s expressed why the caged bird still sing while it is being put through so much pain. ‘’Till its blood red on the cruel bar...’’ (line 9) can get a reader to a sense that the tone is sympathetic as the author were given an imagery, which convey the author’s tone. ‘’But the caged bird…

Maya Angelou was an inspiring person to many people. Maya was a poet, a writer, and many other things. Maya is known for her poems, books and life. Maya Angelou, birth name, Marguerite Annie Johnson was born on the 4th of April in 1928. Maya was her childhood name. Maya was born in St Louis, Missouri and her parents were Vivian Johnson and Bailey Johnson. Maya’s parents were divorced when Maya was three. Maya’s brother is Bailey Johnson Jr. and he gave Maya her nickname. Maya lived with her…

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, is the autobiography of a character named Marguerite, later known as Maya Angelou. The book takes the reader to Maya’s arrival in Stamps, Arkansas. Through the writer’s vivid portrayals of events, the reader experiences Maya’s insecurity, her love of family, her experiences which were so important in her growing up, and her visits to her mother and father. On one of these visits to her mother’s, Maya is assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend. The…

Maya Angelou demonstrates that the human spirit is powerful. One in her famous collection of poems, “Still I rise” is a great example. It conveys the idea that no matter the situation, from oppression of race and sex to the chained up history of her past, her spirits continues to stay strong. Using her experience and simple but powerful words, she expresses the power of the human spirit to all audiences. At the start of the poem, Angelou creates an atmosphere of gloom and sadness with sinister…

If you have followed her career, then no doubt you have seen her during her ‘Veronica Mars’ days. While many now know her as the voice behind Princess Ana in ‘Frozen,’ Kristin Bell went to New York University before she became famous. Born in 1980, Kristen Bell began her acting career in stage productions. But as a teenager, she took on her studies like most teenagers. Before her first year in high school, Bell’s parents decided to pull her out from the public school system. They had her attend…

The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton writes about the need for freedom and so does “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou. In recap, the story writes about slaves who were stolen from Africa and brought to the South. The people that were taken had wings, but being that the ships to the south were so crowded they had to shed their wings to all fit on. Furthermore, they all forgot how to fly, forgetting they could fly all together. At the plantation there a had been on man, Toby, who remembered the…

In the book “I Know Why the Caged Bird 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…

known writers and people inspired Angelou to write some of her most famous pieces of work, also inspired her to get involved in the civil rights movement. Angelou has many famous works, however she is very well-known for: I know why the Caged Bird Sings. In that autobiography, Angelou pours out the first seventeen years of her life, then writes about her years following in another. Maya Angelou is a well known writer whose work will long be read because it deals with human conditions and tragedy…

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928. Maya grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou is a female that is a black American American that liked to experience. At a very young age Maya parents had split up. At the age of 7, during a visit with her mother, Maya was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Growing up as a teenager Maya had a baby at the age of 16 as a teenage mom that also dropped out of high school. She had a son name Guy Johnson. Maya Angelou…