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 sings also from frustration, but in doing so, discovers that the song transforms the cage from a prison that denies selfhood to...

• Word Count: 536
• Approx Pages: 2
• 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 ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Each character in Beloved is a former slave with a painful and scaring past. ... For example, in Chapter 6, Beloved gets Sethe to talk about the death of her mother, something she has tried to forget. ... This is similar to "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent" because they so desperately want to fit in to American culture they forget about their Spanish heritage and they can't figure out who they are supposed to be. ... In "I know why the Caged Bird sings", Maya Angelou goes through something similar. ... Paul D is very insecure about whether or not he could possibly be a r...

• Word Count: 966
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School