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Summary: I know why the caged bird sings
Review: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
By Maya AngelouI enjoyed reading this book. It made me think of how life is different, in different places, but at the same time not so different. All people have similar feelings, and what happens to other people could happen to anyone, or me. This book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is an autobiography. Angelou wrote it 1970, she has written some more autobiographies among others "The Hart of Woman" 1981. She has also given out some collection of poems, and some plays. Angelou was born in 1928 April 4, St. Louis, Missouri she was named Marguerite Johnson.
The book I have read is the first autobiography. The protagonist name is Marguerite Johnson and she is a black girl living in the southern USA with her grandmother, crippled Uncle, and Bailey Jr. her two-year-older brother. Marguerite and her brother were sent to their grandmother when they were two and four-years-old because their parents were getting a divorce and non-of them could take care of them for the moment. Later on their dad comes home to visit, the purpose of this visit is to bring Marguerite and Bailey to their mother. Marguerite and Bailey are living with their mother and her new husband for a while, but when Marguerite gets raped, her mother decides it's better for them to live with their grandmother again. After a few years the grandmother decides the children need their mother and she brings them to her. The mother is now living in San Francisco, California.
Throughout the book there are a lot of things happening, much of it I have a hard time understanding is true, it is just too much happening to one girl, but life is different, and all the things are happening. Marguerite is a shy girl who has a lot of questions she would like to ask, but she does not know whom to ask. And that is why there are so many things happening, and she feels guilty of things she could not help, but no-one tells her it is not her fault, so she believes it is her fault. As I said earlier the book made think of life, how it is different, and all people do not know all the things we all take for granted they know. It is a well-written book, and it is not too hard to understand, I got in to the book right away. This is definitely a book everyone has to read at least once a lifetime.
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Summary: A great book!
Review: I read this book in a class for teachers of literacy for high school students. There was a lot of discussion about those who would have it banned from schools. The book was originally written for adults, not for adolescents, but it is too good to ignore. High school students should be exposed to good writing whenever possible. The subject is sexual abuse and the more adolescents are allowed to discuss abuse the more we can prevent it from happening.
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Summary: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Review: An amazing collection of memories and experiences beautifully put together by Angelou. It is a work of art painted with the pen of a truly phenomenal woman.
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Summary: Her Name Wasn't Mary
Review: Maya Angelou poignantly puts, "If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult." Angelou's book, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," is cast in small minuets, each complete unto itself, yet each an intricate piece of "the humorless puzzle on inequality and hate." This book shows "the heavy burden of blackness" under which most Blacks found themselves not-so-long-ago in America. Through the impressions Angelou marks on the reader's conscience and intelligence, one can only hope that American society has improved, guaranteeing the equal footing for present and future generations. Angelou's autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", makes the reader change "from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware." As Angelou's Marguerite declares, "[she] comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy." Her name wasn't, Mary. Her name isn't Mary. Read the book to find out why.
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Summary: I know why the caged bird sings
Review: I gave this book 5 stars because it is one of the few books that I have read at least 15 years ago and can still remember every detail of the story. It was as if I was the little girl in the book. Chilling! Spine tingling! Magnificent!
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Summary: A wonderful book
Review: I found Mary Angelou's "I know why the caged bird sings" to be a thought provoking book. I had read books like hers before but none of the other books had painted the picture like she did. Her book opened a whole new world to me and made me thankful for all that I had. I would recommend this book to anyone. I loved it and I hope you will too.
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Summary: Maya Angelou is a Poet
Review: I think Maya Angelou is a poet in her own right. She vividly portrays her sufferings and joys during her childhood in this spellbinding novel. The tail she weaves tells of her life and her experiences. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is a wonderfully magical book which does not let the reader go. A reader will understand all of young Marguerite's experiences. They will cry when she cries, and laugh when she laughs. This was a wonderful book I would recommend it to anyone who needs to know that strong people survive.
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Summary: The Queen of Literature
Review: Maya Angelou should change her name to Queen Maya. I have been in love with Maya since I read this book when I was nine years old. She writes so down to earth. I have read the entire series of her autobiographies. Her poetry is equaled only by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Ruby Dee. She is as one of her poems says a phenominal woman. If I have a daughter I am going to name her after this great lady who walks with her head held high and with a royal air that all African-American should be proud of. Anything Maya does is a 5 star performance.
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Summary: Angelou at her Best!
Review: Recently, in my English 1A class, we read one of Maya Angelou's essays, entitled "Graduation." The essay really touched my heart at the way African-Americans were treated in the earlier years of the century. She displays her perseverance in this essay. When I found it was included in "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," I went out and bought it. It was a great use of the $... I spent on it, because once I began reading it, I could not put it down. Angelou's words are awe-inspiring, and she is, indeed, worthy of her title as poet laureate. Maya Angelou is a terrific writer, and this book, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," is a must-have for anybody who enjoys, poems, essays, and short stories.
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Summary: I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
Review: I recently read an interesting book in my English class. "I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRDS SING". That was the first time that I read it. The book was a High School level. This book got my attention because the unfair and the discrimination that were involved in the story. At these days still the discrimination, but years back people suffered a lot, principally the children. "Maya" a... person and the author of her own story, narrate us the crude reality that she had to suffer back those days. She was living with her parents and his older brother in California, but she and her brother had to separate from their parents. Because the unfair in that state. They were sent to San Louis, Arkansas to live with their grandma. They were sent by train like a package with astamp in their chest. When Maya was in first grade the teacher get mad with her because she knew how to read and write. she didn't want to go to school anymore because her grandma taught her school things. Her brother and her grew up without knowing anything about their parents until Christmas, when they received a present from them. They were upset because they tough that their parents were death. Months later their father went for them to take with him to see their mother. But when they were living with their mother, Maya was... by the boyfriend of her mother. She was in shook for a long time. Nobody made her to speak anymore.... Maya and her brother went back to San Louis, Arkansas with their grandma. This is only one example of all what ... people suffered back those days, only of their skin color.
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