READING RESPONSE ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’. Written by Maya Angelou in 1969

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the 1969 autobiography written by Maya Angelou

This book talks about a story that is intertwined by the traumas that most people with black leather have suffered in this period of time. Racism is a very important subject in this book because Angelou was also discriminated against by the white race. For more, hit topics was the Maya rape and after this her brother's murder. This book begins at the moment Maya Angelou, known in the book as Marguerite Johnson ("Maya"). She was only three years old when she moved with her brother Bailey Johnson Jr. in California to live with their grandmother Annie Henderson ("Momma") who had a shop that was dealing with stamps. In this country they made the school and began to hate their parents because they had abandoned so much that they spoiled the Christmas gifts they had donated. Years go and Maya become 8 years old and together with her brother decide to meet their father Sr. Bailey Johnson. Who abandoned them again and they feel disappointed even after that they decided to go to their mother's house Vivian Baxter Johnson who lived with her boyfriend Mr. Freeman. He was the cause of her greatest trauma that Maya had because he raped her when she was eight years old, making her feel like a caged bird. Maya's second trauma was when she returned to her grandmother and then graduated, and no one mentioned the possibility and importance that could have black women in this society and here she wanted to be women of white skin. But by courage she had that secured her own life she made her represent a strong racial identity. After many difficulties in her life she managed to survive rape, create her racial indicts, and increase the power of woman in society.

READING RESPONSE       

‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’. Written by Maya Angelou in 1969

I was very dumbfounded when I read this book because it was treating history in a way that included suffering and injustice that had become an innocent child at the most beautiful age of her life. I was impressed also for this book because was based on the life of Maya Angelo and it is difficult to write down everything for your life and this is read by everyone, because it can positively and negatively affect your career. This book had moments that I did not like as it was:

1. Abandoned that parents give to their children and why.                

2. The fact that their parents were separated also each had their loved ones.

3. Brotherhood of Maya's brother.

4.  Maya's remained alone.