I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Characters
The principal personage of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is Maya Angelou, writing when she was in her late thirties. In the novel she assumes two personae. The voice of "Ritie" (a diminutive of Angelou's real first name, Marguerite) describes in sometimes poignant terms incidents in her childhood and adolescence. The other voice, the adult Maya's, is introspective, more objective, and less intimate. The adult voice of Maya makes general observations or editorializes, and provides epiphanies to many of the childhood incidents.
Angelou is the anima — the female...
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i think her rape changed her life
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