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    Gary Paulsen, the story starts off with a little black girl, Sarny, who spends her life on a plantation. Her owner, Carl Waller, brings a new slave into the plantation. His name is Nightjohn. He is a shaman. Nightjohn secretly teaches other slaves how to read and creates an underground school where they can all learn. Also, in “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou, is a poem about two types of birds. A free bird and a caged bird. Although they are both birds, they have completely different lives. The theme

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    Raven” and “The Black Cat”. Poe’s examples of gothic fiction share the use of the color black and a rapid digression of the narrator 's sanity while seemingly unveiling Poe’s internal pain. Despite these similarities, Poe’s works also differ immensely. “The Black Cat” focuses around death while “The Raven” is fixed around discovering the reasoning for a bird 's arrival. Moreover, gothic themes seen within “The Raven” do not necessarily remain constant when compared to “The Black Cat”. At the beginning

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    literature, “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou are structured around the symbol of a caged bird. As the caged bird is the symbol of the African American race during that time, both have similar and different meanings in their responses. In the two poems both show the caged bird of the black race. “ But a bird that stalks/down his narrow cage/can seldom see through/ his bars of rage…”(M.A 8-11). Although the message is very subtle, it means that blacks are the caged bird

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    Samuel Coleridge and Edgar Allan Poe Poems

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    sea after he killed an albatross, a friendly sea bird.” (Kett, Joseph F.).The old mariner killed an albatross, a seabird, and was cursed for disrespecting nature and watched his entire crew die of starvation and

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    woman whom is an author, poet, dancer, and actress. In her poems and in life, racism is integrated. This is seen in Angelou’s familial and other life experiences, the literary devices seen in “Still I Rise,” and the extension of the metaphor in “Caged Bird.” Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, MO and soon later moved to a segregated part of AK, known as Stamps. This relocation was because of her parents’ divorce and Angelou was only 3 when it happened. When this 7 year- old girl was visiting her mother

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    equated the incarcerated nature of black life in America to the life of a caged bird.” (Ogunyemi 107). This poem might be more known for the last stanza which was the inspiration for Maya Angelou’s “ I know why the caged bird sings”, but reading the entireity of the poem Dunbar carefully constructed will enlighten the reader to the struggles of any marginilized group of people and sympathize with their cause. Paul Lawrence Dunbar uses a metaphors, similies

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    Maya Angelou Caged Bird

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    you’re not. In the poem, Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, there are many things that the poem portrays such as freedom, equality, self-rage, and the ways of society. The poem illustrates a bird that is in a cage, and longs to be free. The bird is angry, but cannot do anything but watch and lone for what he cannot have. The caged bird, stalks the free bird from his cage and imagines the beauty of being that bird. While the other bird, who is a free, sees the caged bird and the rage within him, but does

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    White Collared Seedeater

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    The White-Collared Seedeater (Sporophila torqueola) belongs to the Order: Passeriformes and the family: Thraupidae, can be identified by the black crown, white rump, and white collar. They are endemic America. They range from central Panama to southern Texas. In Texas, bordering edge of its range the species were once common, but now they are a rare summer resident (Keith A. Arnold). The conservation status for the White-collared Seedeater is considered to be of Least Concern by the International

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    I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings is a novel by Maya Angelou, where she writes about her childhood and her experiences while growing up. This non-fiction novel illustrates Maya Angelou’s childhood, being tossed around by her parents, and having to experience different cultures. Maya struggles particularly in finding friends, she is reserved, and will only open up to Bailey, her brother. Maya moves a couple of times to different places, which may contribute to her not having friends. The novel revolves

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    In Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she highlights the struggles of segregation and oppression throughout her adolescent years. Maya Angelou’s metaphorical title represents all the black people, blackbirds, who society cages, but still trying to resist the odds that are against them. Though Angelou faces cruelty throughout her whole life, she always believes in her intelligence. When she and her father go to Mexico, her father becomes very drunk and unable to drive

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