Each failure, each disaster, each adversity holds with it the seed of a greater benefit; it's simply up to us how to utilize them. When difficulties arise, it's completely up to us how we deal with them. We can either let them break us down, or we can build ourselves back up to our ideal form. When difficulties arise, they're obstacles put in our way not to stop us but to pull out our real colors, to make us endure the harsher paths in order to leave with newfound strengths. Throughout I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou portrays her experiences with adversity, as well as the experiences of many others, how she copes with them and how she rises above them. Growing up in Stamps, Arkansas, Maya feels that an enormous displacement from her peers and family while facing the cruelty of racism and sexism. Maya exposes the reality of adversity in all its forms and by the end of the novel, we learn not only what overcoming adversity means, but in a sense beyond words, we......
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