Anita Singh

Caged Bird Assignment

1- Note the references to her childhood in this book. What is Maya Angelou mostly saying about her childhood years and how they shaped her? What big or little incidents from your childhood helped to determine who you are today?


Answer 1.Maya Angelou is saying most of her childhood years she was brought up in a very quiet, civilized neighborhood with her grandparents and her brother Bailey.One very important thing that happened to Maya Angelou in her childhood years is when her mother's boyfriend, Freeman raped her. Even though she was so hurt and needed to tell someone she didn't. Maya didn't even tell her own mom, Maya tought Freemen loved her mother so much that she couldn't tell her mom to brake them up.


2- Note the craft of writing. Maya Angelou is a gifted writer and a poet who employs many tools of poetry (or literary terms), memoir, and good writing in general. Tell how her terms are used in this work ok poetry.


Answer 2.In this work of poetry Maya Angelou used her tools of poetry to relate to her childhod experiences. Maya spoke with such dept and understanding, as though she was explaining it to the readers like it was happening to them.


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