Although Momma was beautiful on the inside and outside, Maya found her grandmother’s ways of dealing with racism confusing and upsetting.Īn appalling example was when Maya had a terrible cavity, so Momma took her to the nearest dentist, a white man who had borrowed money from her once. A strong influence in her grandchildren’s lives, Annie Henderson was a God-fearing woman who owned the Store-a grocery store in the middle of a black community during the Depression. Maya was three years old when her parents sent her and her brother, Bailey, off to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother, affectionately called Momma. The late Maya Angelou captured all of these themes while breaking the hearts of her readers-yet still managing to make them chuckle. Just a few of the themes in this coming-of-age autobiography are racism, displacement, resistance, influence of childhood, family ties, religion, and abandonment. Maya Angelou has been such an inspiration to my life.If you were to teach a class on book themes, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings would be the perfect example. Is this the whole book? Comment by Cynthia Young Just so you all know, this isn't the full book. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”-James BaldwinFrom the Hardcover edition.Available for purchase at:Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format) - Audiobook (Downloadable format)downpour - Audiobook (Downloadable format)eMusic - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)Books A Million - Audiobook (CD format)IndieBound - Audiobook (CD format)Powell's - Audiobook (CD format)Walmart - Audiobook (CD format) Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age-and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St.
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself.
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