Chelly Perez 12 April 2001 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya endures many trials as she moves from place to place, but whenever she finds herself back in Stamps she knows she is home. Growing up in the rural segregated south, Maya encounters many obstacles such as prejudice and racism. Stacked upon all her other problems Maya copes by not allowing these negative influences to keep her caged. She is very much not free to …showed first 75 words of 629 total…

…showed last 75 words of 629 total…A. Smith, she writes, “The black community of Stamps is itself caged in the social reality of racial subordination and impotence’s” and “There is a contained ness in this environment called Stamps, which controls the girl’s sense of displacement, the contained ness of a safe way of life, a hard way of life, but a known way of life” and Stamps giver her back the familiarity and security of a well known cage”