I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou has touched the hearts of many with her shocking and inspirational autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, and has amazed many with her provocative and eccentric life style. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis to Mr. Bailey and Mrs. Vivian Baxter Johnson. Sadly, at the age of three, her parents divorced and Marguerite and her brother, Bailey Jr., who nicknamed her Maya, were sent to live …

…like animals in the past, you can’t help but acknowledge their strength throughout history. The caged bird was symbolic of a chained slave in the beginning of the story, but in the end, it was free to fly over vast lands and soar the endless skies. It was a brilliant concept of Maya's though she may not have thougt about it to to depict the story of the black peoples struggles through her own.