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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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Summary: Not Very Good. . .
Review: I don't like books like this and the only reason I read it was because I had to for our "multi-cultural" unit of Literature Class. I didn't know what was going on half the time, but some of it wasn't the books fault. Our teacher only let us read the "important parts" and had to staple together three chapters because they were "inappropriate." Basically, this whole book tell's about Maya's hard and traumatic childhood. I'm real sorry for her, I really am, but I really don't want to read 200+ pages about it, simply because I frankly didn't care. It seems like the school expects us to like these books just because they're written by people of different races and they're semi-true. I do not like them and hope you don't ever have to read this book.
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Summary: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Review: Maya Angelou's autobiographical narrative, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, was a major eye-opener for me, a high school sophomore. It frankly depicts her life as a southern, black child. The story begins as she is sent, at the age of four, to live with her strict and very religious grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. After she leaves to go live with her mother in St. Louis, she bluntly describes the events in which she was molested and raped by her mother's live-in boyfriend when she was eight. The novel continues to include all of the important events in her early life such as: her move back to Stamps, the move to California, the beginning of World War II, and giving birth to her son at age sixteen. Throughout the novel she constantly compares herself to her brother, whom she considers beautiful. The book mentions many popular novels including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Jane Eyre and also the authors Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare. I enjoyed this book because it made me apprciate my life as a middle-class, white girl.
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Summary: Undersatndings of the book " I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing
Review: My understandings of the book are that she was a little girl when her parents send her to her grandmother's house at Stamps Arkansas at the age fo four where shegrew up being molested because of raciscm, and all the things that she went throughout with out a desire , were so terrible like for example her unlove from her father what i mean is that her father made a difference between her brother Bailey and her, when they first met again.Then her pregnancy an undesire pregnancy, she just decided to bed with a guy just to find out if she realy was a lesbian or not.
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Summary: The early years of Maya Angelou
Review: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou, is the first volume in this author's extraordinary series of autobiographical narratives. "I Know..." begins with her childhood and takes us into her young womanhood. This book has, since its publication, become a beloved contemporary classic of African-American literature. After their parents' separation, young Marguerite (her given name) and her brother, Bailey, are sent to live with their strong-willed grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, deep in the segregated South. Angelou also describes her time spent with her other grandmother in St. Louis, as well as her young adulthood in San Francisco. The overall time period of the book overlaps that of World War II. "I Know..." offers important insights into the world of racial segregation, and painfully records the toll taken by racism in its various forms. Also powerful and important is Angelou's recollection of surviving a brutal sexual assault when she was a child. Angelou recalls vividly the authors who made an impact on her during her childhood and young adulthood: James Weldon Johnson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, and others. The book concludes with her sexual awakening as a young woman. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is an American classic which has lost none of its power in the 30 years since it first appeared. Angelou's prose is direct and personal, and marked with passages of wit and beauty. For scholars of African-American literature, women's studies, or literary autobiography, this is an essential volume.
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