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Has Anyone Read or Even Heard of “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou?

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So, in my ELA class, we had to read an excerpt from “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou and it’s totally insane!

This woman went through soooo much from age 8 to 16;

She was sent to her grandmothers house in Arkansas from California, and was then sent back and abused by her mother’s boyfriend who told her that if she ever told anyone that he would kill her brother. She became mute for months because of the previous facts.

She then visited her father who was drunk and passed out in his car in Mexico, forcing her to drive back to California, where she crashed the car and lived at a junkyard for a month with other kids. After that she was sent back to Arkansas where she was confused about the meaning of the word “lesbian” and her grandmother told her she couldn’t be one. It lead to her getting pregnant at age 16 and having a child at only 17.

Does that sound like a simple life? Not to me! I didn’t even mention Mrs. Flowers yet, but hey, if you want to know you’ll need to read it! Maya Angelou then went on to win 3 Grammys and write seven books! She I’m completely obsessed! I can’t wait to read this book! I got all of that from just looking her up.

-NatTheBrat36 <3

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