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Who Is Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?

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Maya Angelou’s memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, parallels the experiences and emotions Shakespeare describes in Sonnet 29, as both narrators feel like lonely, outsiders who wish they could change their position in society. Maya experiences a “painful” development as the “Southern Black girl” so different from the Whites in her community; and, at her young age, she is “aware of her displacement” in society, “an unnecessary insult” that hurts her deeply (Angelou 6). Maya, unhappy with her situation, wishes she was white and imagines herself as a beautiful child with light hair and skin; unfortunately, her self-esteem is incredibly low, and the huge barrier race creates in Stamps makes her feel even more isolated. Similar to Maya, the
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