I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
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Author: Maya AngelouEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-05
ISBN: 0375507892
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Random House
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Book Review: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Summary: 5 Stars
The book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Is a book that takes you to the life of Maya Angelous childhood. It really goes trough alot of emotions and the characters are so real and and life like. This book goes by so fast and the characters are so real it feel like you are watching a movie. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone above the age of thirteen it has something that can grab you and suck you into this women's extraordinary life.
"His shoulders were so wide I thought he'd have trouble getting through the door. He was taller than anyone i had ever seen,...his clothes were too small too. They were tighter and woolier than was customary in stamps. And he was blindingly handsome." This is a quote by maya Angelo describing her father the first time she sees him. The description for me really made this man come to life it left room for me to imagine his face but it really shaped his character and how he was. Maya does this throughout the book creating a characters character but leaving you room to imagine the rest. This really allows the characters to come to life. When you first meet a character in this book she medially describes them setting a tone of the character. I know when I read a book and the writer brings in a character and describes there description later it really messes up my first impression of that character. This is really what made this book come to life for me even when the book was in a dull part it still was easy to read through because to me it was like watching T.V. the characters were so alive it made it that much more interesting that is why i enjoyed this book so much.The book for me really showed emotion and when an emotion was set weather it be anger, hatred, or sad when she feels it in the book you feel it as you read. This is another reason why the book was so easy to read, you felt like it was like you going trough all of this and it makes it so easy to read and it make it go by so fast. This book was one of the most life like filled book i've ever read in my life.
Everyone who reads this book will enjoy it Maya really keeps emotions rolling and it really makes you feel like you are there in Stamps Arkansas.
Summary of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
In the first volume of an extraordinary autobiographical series, one of the most inspiring authors of our time recalls--with candor, humor, poignancy and grace--how her journey began....From the Trade Paperback edition.
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a 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. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."
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