i know why the caged bird sing
Three primary problems "cage" Maya Angelou in her autobiographical book I Know why the Caged Bird Sings. The most pressing of these issues was probably the fact that Maya lived in the highly segregated south. Another factor of her imprisonment was because Maya, also known as Marguerite, was a social outcast, with very few friends other then relatives. Finally, the main character was entrapped because of her unusual sexual exposure. Over all, the highly segregated life she led, her exclusion socially, and her sexual experience caught Ms. Angelou. At the time, racism was predominate amongst southern citizens, this caused Maya's displacement because she was a young black girl. Throughout the book Maya faces prejudice, and is constantly fighting this outrage, yet is not always winning. When Marguerite Johnson, nicknamed Ritie, was sixteen she became the first black streetcar operator in San Francisco, yet she had to fight incredibly hard to get her job. Even after she did her work schedule was impossible, and the free feeling she got from her job was turned against h
In conclusion, Maya Angelou, author of the autobiography I Know why the Caged Bird Sings, was "caged" for three main reasons. The first of these reasons being that Ritie was Black and lived during a time of segregation. Second, Marguerite was a misfit, with very few friends outside of her family. Finally, Ms. Angelou was imprisoned because of the odd sexual events that took place in her life. In retrospect Maya Angelou was a caged bird for the three main reasons of being Black, a pariah, and having an unusual sexual past. er at school, when she realized that her and her fellow classmates were, "on paths moving diametrically away from each other," so even though Ritie had gotten the job she wanted, which she could have gotten easier had she been white, she was still an outcast. Furthermore, Marguerite, being Black, was denied certain necessities, such as not getting her toothache treated by the nearest dentist because he'd "rather stick my hand in a dog's mouth then a nigger's," or have a white man imply that none of the black children were good enough to amount to
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Approximate Word count = 722
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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