Реферат: I Know Why The Cage Birds Sing

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I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1) Setting ?I?:

- Stamps, Arkansas, in a black ghetto neighborhood where Maya lives with her grandmother and paralyzed uncle

- St. Louis, San Francisco, a junkyard, and Southern California; A brief incident takes place across the border in Mexico

- starting from 1930?s to mid-late 1900?s, she was born in 1928

2) Character ?I? 1: Primary Characters

- Maya? a black girl with nappy black hair, broad feet, and a space between her teeth; the narrator of the book; the novels based on her growing up.

- Bailey Johnson (Junior) – Maya?s older brother and a major person her life; he gives her advice, he?s good looking, intelligent, and mischievous; he loves his mother.

- Momma Henderson – Maya?s grandmother, she owns a black general store in Stamps; Maya and Bailey come to live with her when their parents get a divorce; Momma is the only black female entrepreneur in town. She is devoted to her religion.

- Vivian “Bibbie” Baxter – Maya and Bailey?s mother; a beautiful, smart, and willful lady; She is a trained nurse, but also makes a lot of money playing poker games in gambling parlors.

- Daddy Bailey – Maya and Bailey?s father; he is a vain, selfish,

and conceited man, who is not a good father.

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3) Character ?I? 2: Secondary Characters

- Grandmother Baxter – the children?s nearly white grandmother; she is a precinct leader

- Grandfather Baxter – dies a few years after Maya returns to Stamps

- Uncle Willie – Maya and Bailey?s uncle; he lives with Momma

Henderson; paralyzed since he was three

- Dolores Stockland – Daddy Bailey?s girlfriend; she is jealous of Maya and attacks her

- Mrs. Bertha Flowers – Momma?s sophisticated friend who helps Maya

find confidence through books

- Mr. Freeman – a past boyfriend of Vivian?s; he rapes Maya and is killed by her uncles

- Tom, Tutti, Ira & Billy – Vivian?s brothers; they are tough; they beat Freeman to death after he rapes Maya

- Daddy Clidell – married to Vivian; poorly educated property owner; Maya?s closest father head figure

- Viola Cullinan – Maya?s first employer, a barren white woman; her husband has two children with a black mistress; Maya hates her because she changes her name just for her convenience

- Joyce – seduces Bailey and breaks his heart by running away with a railway porter

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