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Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553279378 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1983 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95
Rating: 4
Summary: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Comment: Maya Angelou's autobiographical narrative, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, was a major eye-opener for me, a high school sophomore. It frankly depicts her life as a southern, black child. The story begins as she is sent, at the age of four, to live with her strict and very religious grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. After she leaves to go live with her mother in St. Louis, she bluntly describes the events in which she was molested and raped by her mother's live-in boyfriend when she was eight. The novel continues to include all of the important events in her early life such as: her move back to Stamps, the move to California, the beginning of World War II, and giving birth to her son at age sixteen. Throughout the novel she constantly compares herself to her brother, whom she considers beautiful. The book mentions many popular novels including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Jane Eyre and also the authors Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare. I enjoyed this book because it made me apprciate my life as a middle-class, white girl.
Rating: 5
Summary: Required Reading
Comment: This is a book that most people should be required to read. Although I'm not quite finished with it, I've already been struck with Maya Angelou's straightforward writing style. She's honest and up front. And she doesn't write like an adult looking back upon her life, but actually takes you back and puts you in her place and the thoughts that went through her head. One reviewer said that Angelou herself was racist. I don't think this is true. The truth is that there was a large amount of racism and segregation when Angelou was growing up, and you can't blame her for telling the truth about it, and to the person who claimed that including the rape was sick, you're not only being juvenile but are missing the point entirely. This is an autobiography and in autobiographies people recount events that have had large impacts upon them, that have shaped their lives, and being raped, especially at such a young age, would definitely have an impact on you. All in all, I find this book refreshingly honest, not to mention many times poetic.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Caged Bird Sang To Me...
Comment: Maya Angelou uses her captavating childhood to entrance her readers into the life of a young black girl in the 1930's - 1940's and she shows her life experiences of heartbreak, seperation, admiration and many other qualities to take us through her life in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas where she spent that portion of her life living with her emotionaly strong and stern grandmother and her father like figure of an uncle. Later on she moves with her mother to St. Louis and then to California during WWII as young Maya trys to change to city life with the help of her brother Bailey. I belive everyone should be made to read this book and then prehaps we would have a better educated world. Maya Angelou's novel "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" truely woke me up to what's out there in the world and that same caged bird sang to me...
Please Note: This book deals with some advanced topics such as "Racism, Rape, Violence" people reading this book should be 13+.
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Title: The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553380095 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553260669 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou ISBN: 067942895X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0375507477 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553569074 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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