mple, Maya was raped by her mother's boyfriend and Celie was raped by her stepfather.
             Racism is an important theme in the two novels. In the beginning of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the reader sees already how far racism has distorted Maya's reality. Maya believes that by wearing a dress that she was going to look "like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody's dream of what was right with the world" (Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1). Because of the blatant racism that Maya faced and the hard life that a black child has to face, she was made to think that white people were better than black people. She would fantasize that her "real hair, which was long and blond, would take the place of the kinky mass that Momma wouldn't let her straighten" and that her "light-blue eyes" wou
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