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Summary: a horrible book
Review: i remember reading this book in high school. it ... i know that sounds harsh, but that's the truth. maya angelou wrote this book to try to make an excuse for the fact that she was a hooker. she blames all her mistakes and problems on society and racism, and the writing isn't even good. her below-subpar autobiography is filled with nonsensical similes that she merits as good writing (ie. "he threw his words at us like bricks, and some of them sunk in me"). when i was done reading this garbage, i thought racism ... but that it wasn't to blame for her horrible decisions in life. in my opinion, maya angelou is nothing more than someone who falsely envisions herself as the mary magdalen.
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Summary: The women in her life
Review: Maya Angelous book is quite an extraordianry one. I would have to say that everyone at one point in thier lives should read this book. I believe that the most extraordinary thing is her triumph with the help of her extraordinary female influences. Maya Angelou is a symbol of one triumphing over adversity.
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Summary: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Review
Review: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings tells how Maya Angelou first arrived in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas when she was three and her brother, Bailey was four. She spent her childhood years here with her grandmother. Her life was never exciting until her father took her out west to see her mother. From that point on in her life, Maya had many experiences as she traveled around seeing her mother, father, and her grandmother back in Stamps. The story ends with Maya living with her mother in California now transformed from a child to a woman.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings possesses Maya Angelou's distinctive poetic style. One can create clear mental images from the descriptions. Maya Angelou also does a great job of making the characters and their emotions come alive. Not only does one enjoy reading this book, but he will also learn many lessons from Maya Angelou's fascinating life.
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Summary: I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
Review: This is a wonderful book, full of hard ship, happiness, and victory. I am doing a report in school on Maya Angelou, and this is the first book my teacher recomended to me to read. It was truly a wonderful book.
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Summary: A very moving life story
Review: I don't remember who, but someone once said something like, "One death is a tragedy, but a thousand deaths is just statistic." This is sort of the way to describe the way I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings impacts the reader. Through her story, you can really come to understand the life of an American black female in the 1930s. From the first years of Maya Angelou's childhood, life was very difficult. Shipped away from her parents to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, pretending for years that the reason she lived with her grandmother was because her parents were dead...then finding out that her parents were in fact alive, making it seem as if Maya was not wanted. In a segregated town full of prejudicce and injustice, Maya lives until around age 7, when she is finally taken to live with her mother. Although this may seem to be a change for the better, things take a turn when young Maya is raped by her mother's boyfriend, Mr. Freeman. When Mr. Freeman is put on trial and is later murdered, Maya believes it is her fault and stops talking. After a long time of silence, Maya meets people who will change her life forever, including Mrs. Flowers, who introduces Maya to the wonderful world of poetry. With the help of Maya's mother, Mrs. Flowers, and other influential people and situations, could Maya finally find happiness? Everyone should read this book, because it reveals the true emotions and feelings that were felt by American blacks. This book will make you cry, laugh, and run right out to buy the sequel, Gather Together In My Name.
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Summary: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Review: I felt I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings told the story of Mya Angelou's life well. It is unbelievable that she went through so many events while growing up. As the reader you can't help but wonder what will happen to her next. I could't put it down, reading the whole book in a couple days. I strongly reccomend this book to anyone who is interested in the true story about a girl growing up in the South. After reading this book, I can't wait to read the others that continue on into her life.
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Summary: I know why the caged bird sings
Review: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
By Maya Angelou
I 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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