I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Do you know Maya Angelou? She is African-American woman, and now one of the world's most respected writers and poets. This book is about her youth life until 17 years old, and also the march to freedom of African-American. It is the first of five books that she wrote about her life. This is Maya's autobiography.

This book begins when she is 3 years old and her older brother are sent to Stamps in Arkansas, to live with their grandmother because her parents parted. She led a life which was full of the racial prejudice, poverty and hardship. She struggled with segregation. When she was 8 years old, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend. This is a part of terrible incidents, but she survives, graduates from college with her strong heart. She had never forgotten hope, pride and a importance of the love, and she greatly cherished her identity.

To be honest, I can't certainly recommend you this book. I think this is so valuable book to think about segregation, but it was too difficult for me to completely understand the contents. I couldn't get well the plot. I was in a gloomy mood while I was reading it. I am not familiar with this topic, so I think I need to think more it. I want to read again when I fully know the segregation's problem.