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Essay propmt for finals tomorrow:
Why does the caged bird sing!? What does the metaphor mean!? How is Maya Angelou (author) like a caged bird!? What does the caged bird's song represent!? How does Maya Angelou sing!? Is she finally freed from her cage!? If so how!? If not, why not!? How is this an appropriate title for her autobio!?
IM IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP!!!! please answer by tonight!. i'll be up til' midnight!. only answer if you have ACCURATE knoweledge of the book!. i need to ace this test!. thnx!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is the first-and many say the best-of five autobiographical volumes the gifted African American author, Maya Angelou, wrote!. It is a remarkably vivid retelling of the turbulent events of her childhood, during which she shuttled back and forth between dramatically different environments in rural Stamps, Arkansas, slightly raunchy St!. Louis, Missouri, and glitzy San Francisco, California!. It is also the annals of her relationships with a rich and diverse cast of characters!. Chief among these are her determined, strict, and wise grandmother Annie Henderson, her crippled and bitter uncle Willie Johnson; her bright and imaginative brother Bailey Johnson Jr!.; her playboy father Bailey Johnson; and her beautiful, brilliant, and worldly mother, Vivian Baxter Johnson!.
The book focuses on the recollections and adult understanding of Maya Angelou's growing up female and black in the America of the 1930s and 1940s!. The cage represents the lives of Blacks in America because they were denied basic rights!. But although the Blacks were oppressed, they were like birds singing (fighting) to become free!. Is she free!? In many ways yes but blacks are still seen as second class citizens by some of society!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I think it means, if it's caged up and should be sad, why does it sing!. because singing is happy!?Www@QuestionHome@Com