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Loading... I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (original 1969; edition 2006)by Maya Angelou
Work InformationI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
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We the reader are let into the incredible story of the childhood of Maya Angelou. It is a heart wrenching story yet not sad because Maya writes with such love and understanding and dignity. I learned what it is like to be female and black in a small southern town. A powerful memoir. ( ) It was an interesting read, not what I thought it would be, and not as compelling as I’d presumed based on what I’d heard about it. Well-written but a little too rambling and untethered to any kind of compelling story. As it’s not a story, but a person remembering their life, in their own words, I guess that is to be expected. She kinda just talks about little things she would do as a kid growing up. Makes me wonder if she smoked weed? And she starts to write these big paragraphs towards the end of the book. I don't have much interest in the things I do. She kinda had a repressed childhood high in the racist South and it kinda waned and became bored & weird once she attended High School in San Francisco. It almost kinda reminds me of my grown upbringing but 60 years later? "Its a Small World After All":) It's not really quite a journal but more like message board postings of little anecdotes the style she wrote it in like she has her own forum. Belongs to SeriesIs contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideHas as a teacher's guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin. No library descriptions found.
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