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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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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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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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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Marguerite Ann Johnson, better known as Maya Angelou, was born on the 4th of April 1928 in St Louis, Missouri. ... Unable to deal with the pain and emotions of these traumatizing experiences, Maya Angelou spent the next five years completely silent, speaking to no one and living with the belief that "my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone." ... Through all the pain and sorrow of her losses, 1968 was a very defining year for Maya Angelou. ... It was also in this year that Maya Angelo wro...

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In Maya Angelou's "Graduation," she describes her roller coaster of emotions on her 8th grade graduation day. ... Her autobiography, I Know Why The Cage Bird Sings, was nominated for numerous awards, and remains an essential book for many. ... Finally, Angelou personifies her excitement when she states, "I hoped the memory of that morning would never leave me. ... Angelou says, "the words of Patrick Henry had made such an impression on me that I had been able to stretch myself tall" (31). ... It is not until Angelou sings along with Henry Reed that she discovers t...

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" – Maya Angelou. ... Such is this emotion a reader goes through from reading Alone by Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou is a prominent contemporary poet that was well-known for poems such as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and On the Pulse of Morning. ... In fact, Maya Angelou knows first hand what it feels like to be alone in life, living between homes though out her adolescence and getting to where she is in life on her own. ... In the poem Alone by Maya Angelou, Angelou uses strong imagery, allusion, and repetition to generate feelings of sadness and grief in th...

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In this first of five volumes of autobiography, Maya Angelou tells the story of her life from age three, when her divorcing parents sent her and her brother to live with their maternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, to age sixteen, when, reunited with her mother in San Francisco, she gave birth to her son. ... Angelou begins her narrative with a painful incident that she does not date but that seems appropriate to age six or seven. ... Experiencing neglect by her mother, Maya fought against considering St. ... In Stamps, however, Maya and Bailey were again surrounded by racists. ... Angelou...

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