I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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"I will not allow anybody to minimize my life, not anybody, not a living soul- nobody, no lover, no mother, no son, no boss, no president, no body." (Maya Angelou) In Maya Angelou’s , she, Maya, tells the reader about the challenges and praises throughout her life. She gets across to th ....
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.... Angelou’s autobiography, as it was to the tone of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd. It was only through the dialect that the reader was able to understand Billy’s character. As in Billy Budd, Angelou uses dialect in her writings to enhance the tone of the book. "That’s right. You know, the children was readin’ me something th’ other day, Say folks dream about whatever was on their mind when they went to sleep."(Pg. 158) Angelou quoted her "momma" [paternal grandmothe ....
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