I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is the first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography and deals mainly with her childhood in the rural town of Stamps, Arkansas. Sent to her grandmother after her parents separate, Maya and her brother come of age in a Southern small town in the 1930s where segregation...
“I know why the caged bird sings” is Part 1 of Maya Angelou’s 5 part autobiographical series, and it flows effortlessly from her early childhood years spent living with her devout grandmother in rural Stamps, Arkansas to age 15; by which time she lives with her glamorous, larger than life mother in ...
It’s ironic that what most stands out in the first volume of Maya Angelou’s autobiography is her voice; when she was a girl, she stopped speaking for a time, but, in looking back on the experiences of her younger years, her voice is unforgettable.“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl...
The first and best of Maya Angelou's autobiographical writings, in my opinion. While I love this book, there are sections that still confound me.Like a memoir, the book does not treat her entire life. Angelou focuses instead on her first sixteen years, and there are, within the book, a number of mem...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou's autobiography of her childhood. Although I still don't know why the caged bird sings, I do know why this book is required reading for so many schools and on the list of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. Maya Angelou has beaten the odds. She is Afric...
Not that I put much stock in The Huffington Post, or literary awards and accolades for that matter, but this book and its author are getting some much deserved recognition from the lit-awards crowd (source). Finally. A few decades too late.
This was the first "adult" book that I ever read. I was only twelve years old, and it scarred me for life. I found it disturbing and depressing. I'm sure that if I read it in a few years, I would consider it to be a good book. But when I first read it, I did not enjoy the experience.
I’ve heard about this book for years, so I was happy to run across a copy of it in a recent bookbox. In honor of Black History Month, I decided to try it.I would say I liked it. I didn’t love it, but parts of it kept me reading along at a nice clip. It’s the story of a girl who considers herself ugl...
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