Caged Bird

No one has ever said that life is easy, especially those that lived during the 1930’s and 40’s in an era known as The Great Depression. During the depression, life was an on going struggle for all. In the South, it seemed that African Americans suffered the greatest. When the novel “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou is read, a door is opened to a world that most try to forget. …showed first 75 words of 533 total…

…showed last 75 words of 533 total…grandmother’s unfailing subservience towards white people, and her tendency to play dumb while in the presence of the white folk. We get the feeling, through Maya’s writing, that her grandmother is a surprisingly smart woman by the confusion that these actions arouse in Maya. This also foreshadows early in the novel that Maya has a long harsh road ahead of her in which she unveils the reasoning behind her grandmother’s strange behavior.