I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The book is truly riveting and
inspirational at all means and tells sad experiences of a three-year-old
Maya and her older brother Bailey are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live
with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age
of 17. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of
racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified
young woman capable of responding to prejudice. 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. Around their surmounting
trials and tribulations they bear, tragedy struck when Eight-year-old
Maya is sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, Mr.
Freeman. He is found guilty during the trial, but escapes jail time and
is murdered, probably by Maya's uncles. Maya feels guilty and withdraws
from everyone but her brother. Even after returning to Stamps, Maya
remains reclusive and nearly mute until she meets Mrs. Bertha Flowers,
"the aristocrat of Black Stamps", who supplies her with books to
encourage her love of reading. This coaxes Maya out of her shell. The
autobiography is definitely timeless and still relevant to our today’s time and credit needs to be given to the author Maya Angelou
for having to discuss such poignant experiences of recounts a youth
filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won
independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in
Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and
the tightly knit black community there.
These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured
later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother
in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an
unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with
Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable
autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas
captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully
ignorant."
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