Gather Together In Maya Angelou's Name
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"A baby's love for his mother is probably the sweetest emotion we can
savor."
(Angelou)
By consistently weaving the theme of motherhood into her literature,
Maya Angelou creates both personal narratives and poems that the reader
can relate to. Her exploration of this universal theme lends itself t ....
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In her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou tells
the story of her childhood. She also makes the reader keenly aware of her
close connection with her grandmother. Stephen Butterfield says of Caged
Bird (in his Black Autobiography in America, 1974): "Continuity is
achieved by the contact of mother and child, the sense of life begetting
life that happens automatically in spite of all confusion- perhaps also
because of it."
Annie Henderson is a God-fearing, inde ....
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Page count: 5 (approximately 250 words per page)
