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A 3 page paper which
presents an examination of Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
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is a book that offers us insight into the women who is Maya Angelou and also a book that takes us into the culture of Maya, her people, and the
culture of her time and place. As such it is a fairly detailed story that can be examined from many different perspectives. With this in mind the following paper examines
Angelous book from the perspective of a girl growing up and coming of age. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings As mentioned, Angelous work is a biography
that talks of her childhood. It is a book that starts with Angelou as a toddler and then leaves us with her at the age of 16. As one author
states, "Maya Angelous novel is a classic tale of growing up black in the American South in the 1930s and 40s. Even though Marguerites and her brother Baileys childhood and
early youth are probably far from typical for the average black family of that time, the book nonetheless can be read as a parable of what it meant and still
means to be a black person in an overwhelmingly white society" (Maya Angelou). As a young girl, and a young woman perhaps as well, "Maya is permanently puzzled by
the adult world. Her grandmother is extremely religious and strict, the children should be seen but not heard, (p. 34) and she is deeply worried about their relationship to their
parents" (Maya Angelou). But, that is not all that puzzles Maya and causes her problems as she seeks to find a way to grow. She is raped "by her
mothers boyfriend while living with her in St. Louis and refuses to talk to anyone but her brother for over a year after the trial. Moreover, she often encounters white
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