"If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat." In the novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, Marguerite Johnson goes from a little southern black girl who wishes to be a "a long and blonde haired, light-blue eyed, white girl", to a very mature young adult that is proud of her race. Throughout Marguerite's (Maya's) life she goes through many difficulties and triumphs. Some of which a person could never imagine of going through. Maya goes from being a very shy and strange black girl, to a certain and self-confident young woman. In I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou, Marguerite has to deal with prejudice, rape, and also the issues of abandonment in her course of becoming a mature woman. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings takes place in the 1930s to the 1940s. During this time period Blacks were discriminated against. Being a child in this period, Maya experiences how......
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