Resilience is often displayed in the autobiography by Maya Angelou called, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... This book revolves around the theme "although one may encounter many defeats in life, one must never be defeated" commented by Maya Angelou in the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya's triumph over defeat is after the speech at Maya's 8th grade graduation. ... Maya realized this when she states, "How was I supposed to blame the innocent man whom I had lurked into making love to me?" ... In conclusion, Maya Angelou's, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a true e...

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• Grade Level: High School

Resilience is often displayed in the autobiography by Maya Angelou called, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... This book revolves around the theme "although one may encounter many defeats in life, one must never be defeated" commented by Maya Angelou in the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya's triumph over defeat is after the speech at Maya's 8th grade graduation. ... Maya realized this when she states, "How was I supposed to blame the innocent man whom I had lurked into making love to me?" ... In conclusion, Maya Angelou's, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a true e...

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• Grade Level: High School

This period brought many great works, including Paul Dunbar's "Sympathy" (1899) and Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird" (1983). ... Similar to "Sympathy", "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" also speaks of hope for freedom. ... In Angelou's "I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings", oppression is most dominant in line 26, "But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.... In "I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings," there is an examination between the caged bird and the free bird. ... The poems are also different because while Dunbar&#...

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• Grade Level: High School

In, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou describes in vivid and painful detail, her childhood and adolescent years. ... I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings depicts the self-actualization of Maya Angelou through her peak experiences, humor, independence, realism, and concern for others. ... Maya implies that by reading her autobiography, the reader will come to understand why the bird sings despite being locked up in a cage. At the same time, the title implies the possibility that the reason why the caged bird sings could be a secret, one that Maya holds close inside her. ... I think t...

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Maya Angelou's statement that experiences teach is a universal statement that is true. ... Flowers, Maya says, "I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me"(79). ... In I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Angelou compares her speech and actions to winter's molasses. ... Maya feels powerless when Bailey and her mother are arguing and Bailey decides to leave "I was a little like Switzerland in World War II"(219). ... Maya Angelou's statement that experiences teach is truly universal. ...

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Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," has been deemed one of the most controversial, yet influential autobiographical novels of all time. ... The novel will leave a long lasting impression of Angelou that will evermore be embedded into the readers mind. Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" has gained a tremendous amount of criticism for its disputable topics concerning Racism and prejudice, The American Dream, and its vulgar textual context. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a story of pride and prejudice. ... "Attaining the street-car conductor's job b...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Caged Bird) is based on her life in the early ages. ... She cites the last line of Dunbar's poem "Sympathy", which is "I know why the caged bird sings," for the title of her first autobiography (Bloom 2). ... Myra McMurry states in Role-Playing as Art in Maya Angelou's "Caged Bird" that: "Dunbar's caged bird sings from the frustration of imprisonment; its song is a prayer. ... Angelou's Caged Bird is full of pain. ... There is also a poem titled "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" that Angelou wrote after the novel. ...

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Throughout her work, she transforms from the meek and insecure Marguerite Johnson in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, to the self-confident and intelligent Maya Angelou that is reflected in her book of poems, And Still I Rise. ... Maya's first autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, chronicles her tumultuous life from adolescence to the tender age of seventeen, by which time she is pregnant with her illegitimate son. ... McCurry says, "The almost novelistic clarity of Caged Bird results from the artistic tension between Angelou's recollected self and her authorial consciou...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Essay Everyone has ups and downs to their life. ... In the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, there are many situations that shape Maya's personality and contribute to the person she is today. ... A final way which Maya's development was impeded was when a local white dentist refused to aid her toothache because Maya's skin was dark. ... Infact Maya had a hard time understanding why her grandmother didn't explode in anger towards him. ... Throughout Maya's life, she grew emotionally in many ways. ...

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Maya Angelou has touched the hearts of many with her shocking and inspirational autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, and has amazed many with her provocative and eccentric life style. ... She then had the courage to sit down and write I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. ... In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings she shows how hard it is to be both black and female. ... Angelou ends I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with the birth of her son, Guy. ... After I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou has written many more pieces of work and plans to keep making an impression on America...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Maya Angelou's poem, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," there is a clear parallel between the caged bird and the free bird, and the African American man or woman and the white man or woman. ... Maya Angelou also speaks to an audience of mixed races. ... Like the caged bird opens his throat to sing so does the African American. ... "The caged bird sings/with a fearful trill/of things unknown/ but longed for still/and his tune is heard/ on the distant hills/ for the caged bird/sings of freedom." (15-22). ... Maya Angelou's poem "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" serves two differen...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird sings is an autobiography written by Maya Angelou one of many great voices of contemporary African-American Literature. I know why the caged bird sings starts off in Stamps, Arkansas. ... Maya ends up getting fired. One day Maya has a toothache. ... In the fall Maya, goes back to school. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings In the autobiography " I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", acclaimed author and poet Maya Angelou provides a personal and revealing look into her life, filled with astonishing events and decorated with colorful characters. ... Henderson continues to sing calmly, blatantly ignoring the group's attempts to phase her. ... "Why couldn't she have come inside the sweet, cool store when we saw them breasting in the hill (Angelou 32)?," Maya explains. ... I WOULD (268). ...

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Movie and Book The novel, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", by Maya Angelou is the first series of five autobiographical novels. ... Maya knows that to be black and female is to be faced with violence and violation. ... For this reason, the novel "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" could have been a selected choice for our class. ... Another point of intersection with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "Sula" is how the books reveal a girl's coming-of-age ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I Know Why Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography of the life of Maya Angelou. ... Throughout I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, the author lives in several towns and cities, all of which effect her differently. ... I think that a book that is similar to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Farewell to Manzanar. ... I also think that I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is just more interesting. ... I would strongly recommend I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings over Farewell to Manzanar any day ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Maya Angelou writes on her experience living in Southern rural then in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the book is a heartwarming yet tragic story of her life from birth to young adulthood. ... She introduced techniques of characterization, theme development, and dialogue and introduces the Maya character to bring out aspects of her story from the perspective of a child. ... " "A light shade had been pulled between the Black community and all things white" shows the racist world that Maya grew up in. She witnessed evil that was generally directed at black women and uses the met...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the novel "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"" by Maya Angelou is read, a door is opened to a world that most try to forget. Maya Angelou is able to describe her experiences growing up in the south in such a vivid way through her use of literary techniques such as ____, ____, and ____. ... Maya Angelou uses an aphoristic style similar to that of Ralph Waldo Emerson's. ... I take it as a boast of sorts, "Look how far blacks have come; look at what they have accomplished, and they haven't even begun to put up a fight. ... When Maya describes the speech given at her graduation,...

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I know why the Caged Bird Sings I think that this book was extremely informative. I think that Maya Angelou wrote the book with an uncanny insight in being able to catch the readers attention, well mine at least, and make it interesting enough for me to keep my curiosity in tune. ... If you can just imagine an elderly lady getting involved into a sermon that much, and realizing that she was actually being serious, I would've laughed and giggled just like Bailey and Angelou did. ... When Angelou's curiosity about sex moved her to the point where she wanted to know ...

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Maya Angelou faces many hardships, yet manages to overcome them all, in her autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." ... Maya Angelou faces many hardships, yet manages to overcome them all, in her autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." When the book begins, Angelou is a young child, a mere three years old. ... I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than cute behind." ... I knew that because I loved him so much I could never hurt him." ...

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The paper presents an analysis of Maya Angelou through researching her cultural context and how it helps readers to understand her work, influences among writers, her writing style applied to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, her theories about literature and writing, and critical reception of the writers work. ... For instance, her famous poem titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings inspired many women to embrace their talents in writing. ... Angelou's poem titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a significant poem that presents her writing style through the unique stylistic details th...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Maya Angelou was born under the name Marguerita Johnson in St. ... Her childhood experiences, which included rape at eight years old and a period of muteness, inspired her famous work, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", which was written in 1970. She is best known for her autobiographical books: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), The Heart of a Woman (1981), Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), Gather Together in My Name (1974), and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), which was nominated for the National Book Award. In her massive v...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... Maya sees herself as ugly and a rejection of society, especially when she meets her beautiful mother, Vivian. ... Maya Angelou compares herself as a caged bird, one that always sings, although it is trapped in a caged. The cage would be our ruthless society and the bird victims of our evil human nature. ... After all her privation, she now found a reason to live, and a reason to sing in a caged society....

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• Grade Level: High School

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By: Maya Angelou The story starts off with Maya and Bailey both being young. ... Maya finds that reading is fun for her. I don't know why anyone would take up reading as a hobby. ... Bailey and Maya both receive presents from their parents. ... She doesn't know why for sure but she is. ...

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Assignment 1: Response to the first part of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" Title I think that the title suggests a lot of things because, if you have a bird at home, which was just caught and put in a cage, it would really make noises, and therefore, I would say that this title suggests that Maya Angelou is constrained to something and is not free, either physically or emotionally. I mentioned Maya Angelou because as she is the author of this autobiography, this makes me presume that she will be the one caged up. ... However, this is rational because as we see how the three girls who w...

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