IKnowWhytheCagedBirdSings

The book __I Know Why The Cages Bird Sings__ was wrote in 1969. It was a autobiograph novel about the early years of Maya Angelou. That show the isolation and loneliness faces by Maya Angelou.Her character thta helped her cope with the prejudices of society quite graphic in nature, the writing in the book deals with Rape, Racism, sexism and some of which has generated controversy.In 1968 Angelou and her friend was depressed about Martin Luther King Jr assassination. So she had a meeting with her friend James Baldwin and thats were she got the idea of writng her biography.In her young life she struggle with racist because is live in the south.When she was younger is also got abandoned by her parents. So that lead to her and her brother having to go stay with her grandma and her crippled uncle in Arkansas