Beginning to read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, I was honestly, extremely bored. Having hated past American Culture books like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I knew from the moment I opened my Amazon package- this book, was going to be dreadful. I am not entirely sure what hooked me. Perhaps it was just the fact that I will never experience the discrimination that came with having more melanin or the disbelief that one young girl could live such a dire life. Either way, being able to feel the intolerance as I read through the life of Angelou allowed me to understand the bigotry in society that was once considered ordinary. Reading Angelou’s autobiography was much different than works that dealt with similar race related issues. Maybe it was that her story was told through her own perspective. I read this story from the inside looking out, rather than making observations from the outside. When normally reading work from the point of view of one who represents innocence, usually a child, or another outcast in society; we learn what it means to be black, but we don’t truly experience what it is like. From reading through the lens of Maya, I was able to relate more to her and in turn understand what it is like to be black. Upon starting my IOP I had the most challenge finding a …show more content…
I wanted to create a presentation that I could relate to, and present as strongly as I felt while reading it. Religion has played an important role in Maya’s life and I believed