Songs of Caged Birds: life and its ups and downs
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SummaryMaya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is her first book dedicated to “all the strong black birds of promise who defy the odds and gods and sing their songs.” The cage represents a life of racism, poverty, illiteracy and dysfunction. The black birds represent the certain people in the book who overcome these odds and still sing their songs. In this book, Angelou tells us stories of her dysfunctional family, her low self-esteem and her experience with rape and abuse. After all that she goes through, she still rises above this way of life and becomes someone great and successful. She still “sings” even though her life is that of a “caged bird.” In her novel, Angelou writes about herself and others that have risen above the odds to become quite remarkable people considering the resources and circumstances that they were afforded.
Table of Contents- One group of people that overcome the odds are the junkyard kids.
- Momma encourages Maya not to stoop to the level of bad people.
- Finally, the caged bird that sings loudest of all in this book is Maya Angelou.
- Another trying time in Maya's life is when she meets her father's fiancé, Dolores.
- Several people in Angelou's novel overcome life's most difficult trials.
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