I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou's epic is a classic tale of growing up black in the deep South in the 1930s and 40s. Even though Marguerite's and her brother Bailey"s early youth are probably far from typical for the average black family of that time, the book nevertheless, can be read as a parable of what it meant and still means to be a black person in an overwhelmingly white society. The story is told from a "black" point of view and is thus a more "politically correct" interpretation of race relationship and bigotry ,than Harper Lee"s equally famous To Kill a Mockingbird.
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