Maya Angelous I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's turbulent experiences through late childhood and adolescence transformed into an almost a positive force in her adult life as they helped enlighten, inspire, motivate and shape her very being. They provided her the vehement fuel that drive her achingly powerful words and allowed her the knowledge and wisdom that led to self-discovery and eventually knowledge of self, two endeavors that most of humanity is never able or perhaps willing to acquire.Her vivid and startlingly real descriptions of everything from a wild and raucous church revival to her sometimes pitiful crippled Uncle Willie illustrate her life perfectly, easily transitioning from one happening to another. The description of the truculent and heinous rape she endured at the formative age of eight is as disturbing as it is brutally honest and straight-forward, which seem
Again, her self-awareness that allows her to speak on the human condition with such wisdom as an adult is the same knowledge that enabled her as a young child and woman to see her peers and elders in a much different light than a typical young person. This is a painful and incredibly cruel realization, and she once comments on its severity:"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. She seemed to understand the pathetic ignorance and contempt behind the "white folks" treatment of her people even at a very young age. She once says of her Uncle Willie:"Uncle Willie. Maya is able to extract from these experiences, whether they were pleasant or traumatic, and transform the wisdom into purely beautiful and sincerely evocative tales in a lucid yet elegant way that illuminates her fluid writing. was the whipping boy and butt of jokes. Maya responds with: "I thought maybe I was turning into a lesbian".
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