I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings 🕊
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Channel: Paper & Glam · 2017 · Howto & Style
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Here are our discussion questions for Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings:
Ice Breaker - What was the best book you read this summer? And/or book you’re most excited to read this fall?
1. What was your experience reading I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings? Star rating?
2. What was your favorite quote or passage?
3. “We survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, muscians and blues singers) ” (184). Do you think this is true of all cultures? What authors, preachers, and singers help you survive?
4. What's up with the end of the novel? Do you think it's kind of sudden? What were you expecting?
5. The title is a reference to the poem Sympathy by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Why do you think Angelou chose this title?
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
I know why the caged bird sings!
6. Why do you think I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings endures as a classic work of literature?
Thank you for reading along with us!
Lisamarie
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