I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings :: essays research papers

     Quote      Reaction1     pg. 8 Chap. 1"The sounds of the new morning had been replaced with grumbles about cheating houses, weighted scales, snakes, deficient cotton and dusty rows. In later years I was to salute the stereotyped picture of gay song-singing cotton pickers with such an inordinate hydrophobia that I was told even by fellow blacks that my paranoia was embarrassing. But I had seen the fingers running by the mean little cotton boils, and I had witnessed the backs and shoulders and arm and legs resisting both further demands."     The importance of this quote is very integral to the rest of the book. To be able to criticize something you should have experienced it. This passage shows that Maya has experienced the non-privilege of universe a Negro during the thirties, and experienced it at a young age. Maya wrote that she later confronted the stereotype, She had a right to b ecause of her previous position.2     pg.14 chap. 2"Bailey and I stubborn to memorize a scene from The Merchant of Venice , but realized that mammy would question us about the author and that wed have to tell her that Shakespeare was white, And it wouldnt take to her whether or not he was dead. So we chose The Creation by James Weldon Johnson "     This take away is crucial because it puts yet another facet on separatism. Really the blacks and whiteswere both afraid of each other equally. The only difference was that the whitefolks were in a position to act on those fears.3     pg.25 chap 4."In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didnt rattling, absolutely know what whites looked like. former(a) than they were different, to be dreaded, and in that dread was included the hostility of the powerless against the powerful, the wretched against the rich, The worker against the worked f or, and the ragged against the well dressed. I remember never accept that whites were really real."     The first line really does a good work of summing up the situation in Stamps but the key section of this cite is the very last line. "I remember never believing that whites were really real." This statement really makes the whole situation clear in that it really brings home how someone can think that an entire race of flock dont exist.4     pg.48 chap 7"The judge asked that Mrs. Henderson be subpoenaed, and when Momma arrived and verbalise that she was Mrs.