In Caged Bird, Angelou describes the insecure position of a black girl in the Southern America during the 1930s and 1940s. The novel covers her life from the age of three to the age of sixteen, when she becomes a mother. She and her older brother, Bailey, move to live with their paternal grandmother in Arkansas after their parents divorced. There, she is raped by her mother’s boyfriend, Mr. Freeman. After the incident, Angelou remains speechless for five years and finally recovers with the help of Mrs. Bertha Flowers, her grandmother’s friend (Lupton 51). Later, she has sex with a young man in the neighborhood to prove that she is not a lesbian. Consequently, she gets pregnant and gives birth to a son at the end of Caged Bird (Lupton 52).

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