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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Abridged Audio Edition) Audio CD – Abridged, Audiobook
Author: Visit ‘s Maya Angelou Page ID: 0679451730

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In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California–where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou’s “gift for language and observation,” this “remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant.”

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Audio CDPublisher: Random House Audio; abridged edition edition (September 3, 1996)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0679451730ISBN-13: 978-0679451730 Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.6 x 5.8 inches Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #220,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #14 in Books > Books on CD > Poetry & Drama #16 in Books > Books on CD > Literature & Fiction > Poetry #93 in Books > Books on CD > Reference
May I tell you why I choose to have my ninth grade students read it? I have noticed a lot of reviews by young people, which I applaud, but an adult perspective might be helpful.
I don’t particularly feel the need to defend its merits. (I am not articulate enough to do justice to that task.) As with any book, some will love it and some won’t. Guaranteed, it will make you uncomfortable at times, because one chapter describes the rape of a young person–which is painful for any compassionate human being to hear. Plus, there are other sexual issues, largely stemming from the earlier assault, but also because she is a teenager in the last phase of the book. Such questions about love and sex are characteristic of the teenage years. Many young people, as well as adults, are confused about such topics. While these are generally the most controversial segments from the book, the fundamental lesson of the book goes far beyond the survival of one victim. I won’t supply you with the answers as to what one should take away from the text. It is a personal experience for each of us.
We can all learn from Maya’s honest account of her childhood journey. We can all try on her experiences and live vicariously through her for a while, and see how it changes our own perspective on what it means to be a human being.
I’ll be the first to admit, this book is a challenge for all my students in one way or another. Some because they are white and live in the northern US. Some because they are male and it’s difficult to view life through a woman’s eyes. Some because of the adult vocabulary and extensive use of figurative language. Some of these experiences are so remote from their own, while others are very close to home.
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