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Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Research Paper

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The human condition is what creates bonds and divisions between people. As people we experience love, hate, anger, joy, fear, life, and death, but people allowed small things such as wealth, education, or race to draw lines in the sand. During the time period Angelou lived in racial discrimination was prominent. She was turned away from jobs and multiple opportunities because employers didn’t like what they saw at surface level. She faced many hardships that began at a young age and spanned to her later years, which inspired some of her best known work along with her autobiography ¨I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” In her autobiography she shares about the time she spent with a woman known as “Mrs. Flowers”, a woman who coaxed Angelou out …show more content…

But those simple things tear them apart from each other. Through sharing her time with Mrs. Flowers it aided in attempts to unite the two “sides” by proving that they both experience pain and suffering whether, it be the loss of someone dear or matters much larger than that. She also showed that they both experience laughter and joy of being surrounded by close friends and family. She taught them that every side has similarities that we should bond over rather than being divided.
“One person standing on the word of God is the majority”(Hercules). This is what Angelou said when police attempted to get the protesters out of the streets. Wanting to be heard, she stood her ground even when she was threatened to be trampled. This shows that all voices deserve to be heard, not muffled.
These quotes together show that both sides have story that deserves to be heard, but with lines in the sand some voices can’t be heard. Maya Angelou made herself heard. She advocated for her beliefs and the beliefs of others. She showed that we all experience the human condition for some in extreme cases some in more mild ones. She did her best to erase the lines that where

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