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'Cage' of Maya Angelou

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one question looms large. Who was her captor? Who put her in that cage so that she could not sing, or even talk, for awhile? Maya would eventually sing her  way out, and then go on to write her way out of all the chains she felt bound by, including the chains of bigotry and social injustice. Her autobiographical  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings has been a critical and commercial success. While the story is moving, and quite intense at times, there are underlying themes of racism  and class struggle. In a sense, the two are one in the same. Angelou paints a portrait of a poor South. This is the only South she knew growing up.  Yet, she wrote the work as a reflection much later. Biographical endeavors are difficult for that very reason. Yet, one gets a sense of what it was like to  grow up in Stamps, Arkansas. One also gets a sense of a less confident Maya who had to go through much strife. In reading her life story, it is  no surprised that at times Maya felt like a caged bird. What is a surprise is that she would ultimately grow up to sing a very bold song.  II. The Life and Times of Maya Angelou Marguerite Johnson, who would later call herself Maya Angelou, was born in 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri ("Angelou" PG). Her  parents would divorce and Angelou lived with their mother and older brother, the latter of whom gave her the name "Maya"(PG). The two children would moved to the town of  Stamps, in Arkansas, to live with their fathers grandmother (PG). Yet, during the mid-1930s, the pair returned to St. Louis to live with their mother once again, but the mothers