That's why Dunbar "[knows] why the the caged bird sings" (15) even while in complete pain, the bird continues its song and shake the bars, because "he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer...But a plea" (17-20). ... " (21), and he, himself, will pick up singing the song (all the while wearing a mask). ... We are given a peak into what they have gone through, and how white people have destroyed their lives and has made the mother into such a distraught and depressed woman, yet she still pushes and carries on for her daughter, just like any ...

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During the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of black Americans moved from an economically depressed rural South to industrial cities of the North to take advantage of employment opportunities created by World War I. ...

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