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Summary: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Review: I liked this book so much I read it twice. It shows a life style that I never thought really existed. It is very personal although still entertaining at the same time. The insight given is so real. The Maya Angelou goes into great detail about every situation each pertson is put in. If you enjoy reading about life in the midst of death you will love this book. By the end of it you will have a new out look on your life. When you think it is at its worst it can always get worse and it does. To read this book takes strength. You are forced to face a part of reality every one tries to hind. Maya Angelou wraps her reader in and keeps them in suspense. I really enjoyed this book and would read it again. Try and see how much you know about reality and read this book.
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Summary: Every young person should read this
Review: This was an extraordinary book filled with stories like the ones my grandmother has told me. The struggles of a Black woman both in the south and north. It made me feel like I was right there with her going through it all and hoping she'd pull out ok. Ms. Angelo's style of writing made it interesting and colorful. I'd recommend this book to the younger crowd, showing them the struggle - that nothing came easy for her, but she never quit.
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Summary: For Student Use
Review: I am high school student. I had a very hard time reading this book. I know many people say that it is great, but I would not suggest reading this for student use. Some of the book was great but most of the time it lost me. This is a book I would read when I am an adult but not now. It is too complicated for me and not something I would read everyday. However I did learn a few things about what Maya Angelou life is about and I think she is a most interesting person to read about.
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Summary: This book should be required reading for everyone!
Review: Maya Angelou is quite an author. Her writing style is so interesting and compelling. I read this book straight through - I simply could not put it down. After I finished this book, I read her other four biographical works, all very interesting, but I think "caged bird" was by far the best of the group. It is a book that gives you a deep abiding sense of compassion for the gross inequities of Jim Crow laws and it gave me a keyhole peak of what it meant to be black and poor. Maya's description of listening to the radio and cheering when Joe Louis won the heavyweight championship will always stay with me. She spoke about how it felt to see a black man triumph in the ring and that it was a victory for every black man, woman and child, as well. My words are so inadequate to express the depth of emotion and sense of joy which she conveyed so beautifully in her book. Read the book. You'll love it and be left with a treasure trove of memories and a deeper sense of compassion for all mankind.
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Summary: Another Blow for Public Education
Review: I will admit that the honesty of the teenage reviewers is notonly dead-on, but at the same time, hilarious and disheartening....Ithought a lot of the standard classics, by anyone's standards, they had me read in high school were pretty boring, but now this? Fortunately, around 11th grade we started getting some works of substance and literary merit and I went on to a Ph.D in Comparative Literature. I may not use it, but I've read a lot of books and of all the possibilities on the shelf, this is what the educational system chooses to have kids read. Pretty sad. And even sadder is that these kids cut close to the bone.
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Summary: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings!
Review: Great Book! For those who have read it, Im sure hink the same. She is a great writer to keep you waiting what the end awaits.
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Summary: Maya, the Queen of the English language
Review: As a teenage girl, i find Maya's enlightening autobio to be an uplifting source of entertainment and inspiration for me. While thoroughly intrigued by the story itself, Maya's use of the language is spectacular-evidence of her ability to write beautiful poetry is very prevalent. 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' is recommended to both those that are familiar with this remarkable woman and her work, as well as, to avid readers that are interested in becoming acquainted with this phenom.
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Summary: I Know Whay the Caged Bird Sings!
Review: This has to be the worst book ever written! I am reading thisfor english right now and I can't read two pages without fallingasleep. She goes on and on about things that don't pretain to the topic. I remember toward the begining of the book she spent half of a page on how she didn't steal a can of pinapples when she had the chance. So what! I don't steal stuff every day, and I don't write about it and bore people with it. What ever you do, don't buy this book.
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Summary: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Review: I thought this book was a good representation of the trials and tribulations of a young black girl growing up in the mid 20th century. However it was extremely boring and the only reason I kept reading it was because I had to read it for English Class. It was difficult to follow and the content may be inappropriate to younger readers.
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Summary: Maya as an inspiration for teachers
Review: While reading "...Caged Bird" I payed attention to Angelou's innovative writing style. She is of a new generation who dares to write about life as it really is. Instead of an autobiography that idealizes and candy-coats life, this book tells about life's embarassing and not-so-enjoyable details. I enjoyed this book. It was a fast and easy read. I would recommend it for older audiences (9th grade--on). Some of the content may not be appropriate for younger readers. Teachers: this book could be coupled with Mildred D. Taylor's "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". It would be a great complement for authors like Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neal Hurston, Jean Toomer, Walter Dean Myers,James Baldwin... for a unit on Multicultural American literature. You could address topics like: racism, rape, relocating and its adjustments, teen pregnancy, parental roles, autobiography writing styles... I'm a 21-year-old female studying to be an Enlish teacher.
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