... callous for the Negro people. The Negroes must work long hours at ridiculously low pay just to survive, and often it just was not enough. Angelou explains in the early chapters of I know why the caged bird Sings, just how hard life in Stamps is and how her people are able cope. Angelou conveys this so that the reader will have ... realize just how oppressed and hopeless life was for the Negro people. Also, Angelou's recollection of the "common workday" contributes to the tone of soft subtleness set in the early chapters, of the small community of Stamps. There are many different devices...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate