Character Analysis: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

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Maya's experience in the junkyard is a life skill treasure. After the fight Maya had with Dolores, while visiting her father in southern California for the summer. Maya decides to leave so she would not be pitied, and believed her father would be relieved if she left. Fear of going home and explaining what happened to her mother she ventured out for somewhere else to stay. Maya felt freedom when she left, as Angelou states in the novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, "The idea of sleeping in the near open bolstered my sense of freedom. I was a loose kite in a gentle wind floating with only my will for an anchor" (251). In other words, she was free and in control of her life. After leaving she ended staying in a junkyard with other kids close

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