... began her career as a professional writer. "The unsettled life Angelou writes of in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, suggests a sense of self as perpetually in the process of becoming, of dying, and being reborn, in all its ramifications"(Ryan 13) . Angelou ends I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with the birth of her son, Guy. The caged bird at the end is comical and triumphant. When asked why she characterized the caged bird as triumphant, Maya replied with the obvious response, "I have won in my strife ... is an important theme through out the Caged Bird, which represents the sustaining...

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• Grade Level: High School