Caged Bird Sings Marguerite

Reading is like lint you can easily become attached to it. In “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”, Marguerite was introduced to reading and literature and develops a fancy for it. In the novel Maya Angelou, the author, writes about little girl named Marguerite who was abandoned by her parents at young age and lives with her grandmother. Angelou clearly illustrates the theme that literature can be anybody's best friend throughout the novel by showing how her bond and love for reading grew into a never-ending relationship.

Marguerite’s relationship with reading began at a young age and since then she began to befriend it and all the different types of writers she began to encounter. Marguerite quickly fell in love with William Shakespeare one

While she’s at Mrs. Flowers house she says, “I have often tried to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easily found in those gifts. The essence escapes but the aura remains (Angelou 100).” This quote shows that she still has that sense of wonder that she first had when she began reading. The reason for this is that she has such admiration for reading that it keeps her captivated by the many different scenarios and types of writing that’s available at her disposal. She’s constantly reading as she said earlier in the novel, greedily to be more precise, which shows that her passion and desire for reading grew stronger since she first started to read. Further in the novel, Marguerite shows how she’s entertained by even the weaker forms of literature that she reads. In the book it states, “Some of the tales were funny, a few were pathetic, but all were amusing or gratifying to me…(Angelou 222).” Anything she reads or hears provides her with joy or happiness, even amateur stories like the ones told in the Black underground by the slaves. She enjoyed them as if she was reading her favorite book and that portrays the significance of her reading a lot since she was able to grasp the sense of humor beneath the