I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
In the book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings , by Maya Angelou, Marguerite, Uncle Willie, and Vivian are faced with many defeats but are never defeated. There are many times in which Marguerite is faced with difficulties that she overcomes. Growing up in the poor South as a black and yet triumphing despite that fact is her biggest achievement.At about eight, she and her brother are moved to St.Louis to live with their mother. Moving from the South they are expected to be ignorant, but much to the contrary they are smarter. “ We were moved up a grade because our teachers thought that we country children would make our classmates feel inferior- and we did.” With that statement she shows that just because she comes from the South does not mean that she is uneducated, and both she and Bailey use this to their advantage and also to taunt their classmates. Much later, at fifteen, she sets her mind to working on the streetcars in San Francisco. The first problem with this plan is that they do not allow Negroes to work on the streetcars. The second problem being that she is too young to work. But she will not be defeated. “I would have the job. I would be a conductorette an
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Uncle Willie, San Francisco, Moving South, Vivian Baxter, Willie Vivian, Marguerite Mother, Care Neither, uncle willie, , makes children, self- sufficient, job conductorette,
Approximate Word count = 792
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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