You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” To fully understand and apprentice the meaning of Maya Angelou novel“ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”a person has to first understand her eclectic lifestyle, the reason why she wrote the novel and the reasons why it's still important to readers today. When Maya Angelou was three and her brother, Bailey was four, her parents divorced and shipped their children off with their grandmother, Annie for parental guidance. Maya’s grandmother lived in a black community where she owned a general store that served food and sundries. She also owned a extra house the she rented out to a poor white family that occasionally came into the store to harass her and her family.(Telgen 134)
During the depression Mrs. Henderson was able to lend out money to poor black and white families. Maya and her brother Bailey learned many things from there grandmother which was how to be kind ,they became wise, and she taught them how to be confident, she soon became their role model- yet she was strict she taught them cleanliness, godliness, and the respect for others . There lives revolved around the church and around the customers at her general
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Sadly, high school and college students all over America are forced to wade through her written bath of dung because it’s chic among the brainless radicals who dominate American education at all levels. It’s absolutely unreadable” And after that statement she tweeted “ Buh-bye Maya Angelou , One of America's most overrated Writers” (