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Caged Bird

The only thing that has surprised me so far in this book, is how
racist people still were at that time. It is very surprising to find out
that how racist people were actually affected Maya Angelou into thinking
almost the same way others thought. For instance, in the beginning of this
book when Maya Angelou wrote about one day her waking up having blonde hair
and blue eyes and then everyone would be asking her for forgiveness just
because of that.

The Cages Of Maya Angelou Maya Angelou wrote an amazing and entertaining autobiography
titled I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, about her hard life growing up as a black girl from the
South. Among the hardships are metaphores known as "cages". "Cages" are things that keep people
from succeeding in life and being everything they want to be. Some of Maya Angelou's cages
include being black in the 1940's, and her overbearing grandmother. For myself a major "cage" is
being young. A major "cage" from Maya Angelou's youth was that she was black in a prejudice
southern town. Maya has recounted in her book the times when she was discriminated against.
When she was working for a white woman named Mrs. Viola Cullinan, she started calling Margaret,
Mary. "That's [Margaret] too long. She's Mary from now on."(pp.91) One of the most important
aspects of a person is their name. It is a great insult for someone to change your name, without your
consent, just because someone wanted too. If Maya was white Mrs. Cullinan would not have
changed her name. She did it only because of her racist friends, and attitudes. Even some of the
white s, who supposedly supported her, had hidden their racist feelings in seemingly nice remarks.
Maya conveys the words of Mr....