I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiographical account about Maya Angelou’s challenging life and encounter of an American society at a crucial period, a time of adjustment. Both as a woman and black person, she is confronted to many difficulties and is victim of racial segregation. This belongs to the main theme of the novel, Maya’s fight to endure and break through in an intricate and harsh world. At a very young age, Maya is sent to live with her grandmother in Stamps, where racism exists in all its forms. Maya sees herself as ugly and a rejection of society, especially when she meets her beautiful mother, Vivian. She goes to live with her in California, starting a new phase i
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