I know why the caged bird sings:"Cages"
The poem I know why the caged bird sings is based on the first line of Laurence Dunbar poem Sympathy. The poem is also based off of Maya Angelou's life. Born Marguerite Johnson. The title first began out as the book.
While growing up Marguerite 3 and Bailey 4 was sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas.Marguerite and Bailey was raised by their grandmother while growing up they had no contact with their parents. They didn't know why their parents sent them off. For a long time they thought they were sent off because they were bad children. At the age of eight and nine, Marguerite and Bailey's father came from California to take them to live in St. Louis where their mother stayed. Marguerite and Bailey's father left to go back to California. In St. Louis the children met their grandparents, three uncles, and even their mother's boyfriend Mr. Freeman, whom later raped Marguerite at the age of eight. Marguerite told no one,......
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