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 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Description: Author: Maya Angelou / Genre: Biography / In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a ... more  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou ... 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.Newest Review: ... it is truly harrowing to read. The court room scenes are almost as bad and I imagine that this in itself was nearly as ... more ... painful for Marguerite to bear: ?The lie lumped in my throat and I couldn?t get air. How I despised the man for making me lie. Old, mean, nasty thing. Old, black, nasty thing. The tears didn?t soothe my heart as they usually did.? The author?s voice is strong throughout and there is a careful combination writer?s prose and slight edges of Angelou?s natural accent that show through occasionally, most noticeably when she is relating what someone else has said: ?Momma said ...more |
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Penguin Readers Level 6: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings": Audio
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou - Virago Press Ltd
It's been a long time coming, but A Song Flung Up To Heaven | £ 5,49 |
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou - Virago Press Ltd
It's been a long time coming, but A Song Flung Up To Heaven | £ 8,57 |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou: "Into this cocoon I crept" (1010 words)
by saucy_molecule - written on 16.04.04 (Very useful, 740 readings)
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Growing up in 1930s America isn?t easy when you?re a young Black girl. Marguerite Johnson lives with her grandparents and older brother Bailey in the town of Stamps, a heavily Black-White segregated place where everybody knows their place. A brief stay with her mother results in Marguerite being raped by her Mother?s boyfriend. Returning to Stamps, her way of coping is retreat into a world of muteness. The book follows the next few years of Marguerite?s life as she comes to terms with what happened to her and the person that she becomes. The book is an autobiographical account of Maya Angelou?s childhood so the impact it makes is stronger as you know that every ...
Marvellous Maya (2916 words)
by donnaford - written on 28.09.01 (Very useful, 5528 readings)
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This book is unmissable due to Angelou’s beautiful, poetic language. However, I would not recommend it to anyone under 16 because of the harrowing rape scene. In brief: Maya Angelou's autobiography, from her arrival in Stamps aged just 3 to the birth of her child. All the usual challenges of growing up are teamed with abuse, abandonment and racial discrimination. However this is an uplifting tale of a strong and beautiful young woman. The central themes of ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ include the healing power of religion; perceptions of beauty; abandonment, which leads to independence; the exploration of sexual ...
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