I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

While reading I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, I realized that the book was very interesting, but some chapters were just long and boring. This reminds me of the book that we recently finished in class, Things Fall Apart. Both books have a great story, but they also have some chapters that make me fall asleep.(not offense)For example, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou has chapters about the church that Marguerite/Maya attends, and Things Fall Apartby Chinua Achebe has chapters on wrestling matches. As I read throughout this week, I wrote down notes in the book and a short summary of each chapter. I think that writing down short summaries of each chapter is helpful, when you need to look back to what you read.

While reading this book, I thought that many things were very interesting. In the beginning of the book, I didn't know what was going on, so I felt bad that Marguerite/Maya and Bailey weren't living with their parents. I think that there are many different themes in this book, and one of them is something dealing with family. Also, I think that if Maya lived with her parents as a little girl, many things would've been different. As the book progresses, Maya and Bailey meet their parents and they live with them, but that is different from living with your parents when you're a young child.

Besides that, I thought that it was very weird when Bailey and Maya used to play "house." They seem like children, but when I read the parts about playing house, especially with the girl named Joyce, I was surprised. The more surprising part was when the character Mr. Freeman was introduced. He seemed like a nice person at first, but later on, he turned out to be a bad person. There are a lot of characters that I want to talk about, but I don't want to spoil the book TOO MUCH. I spoiled it a lot right now, but I hope that you still want to read the book to find out who Mr.Freeman is and what he did.

As I read, I found a lot of vocaulary that I didn't know.
-aptly, servile, appellations, opulent, anachronism, eke, calamitous, porter, reneged, fiscal, troubadour, kerosene, query, waifs, gaiety