I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Thesis

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Maya Angelou was an African American women who wrote about rising up and the oppressed. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou talked about a free man and an oppressed man. She went into detail that the difficulties that the written about the oppressed man was forced to face. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, Maya illustrates two aspects to the reader, she presents a free man and oppressed man.
“A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky.” This part of the text means that a free man accomplishes remarkable goals with the support of others. This freeman does the task until the end and when that task is done he goes and does another, however this time the project is bigger, he dares to accomplish his lifelong dream. I believe this is what it means this, because when someone, such as myself, chooses to do something big in there eyes they …show more content…

In which that human is trapped physically, that human looks at the cell with radge. Even though that his hands are tied and feet are straps, he opens up his mouth and sing, because that is the only freedom that he has. I think this means this, because stalks, in this context that it is being used means that walking grumply. Since maya states that the “down in his narrow cage” and if a person was crouchley walking that person would not be able to do it in a narrow area. As I learned from when I was a kid that someone cannot walk too much in a narrow space. People usually refer to the only freedom that they have and at that time the person only freedom was his voice, since his hands were cuffed and his feet were

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