I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Poem

The Caged Bird in “The Long Walk Home” In the famous poem “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by Maya Angelou--An extraordinary woman who lived through abuse and racial discrimination. She also suffered from sexual assault from a close family member and do to that traumatizing moment she stopped talking, for five years. Maya Angelou in this poem uses metaphors to capture all the hard times she went through.And how she and her other peers have barriers between blacks and whites and how she and her peers are limited to their freedom. And how the only way for African-Americans to earn respect was for them to have a voice and stand up for their rights.”That's Why The Caged Bird Sings.” In Richard Pearce’s screenplay,”The Long Walk Home,” Odessa represents Maya Angelou caged bird, while Miriam is

but even if she does get freedom her wings will still be clipped.Same with all the African-Americans that want freedom,because people are still gonna look down at them like they used too.Things are gonna take time to heal like an injury, once people start to notice beyond that skin color and see that they are just like them.I think that's when odessa and other african-americans are gonna start getting the respect they deserve and their freedom won't be limited anymore,and they won't be that caged bird with the clipped wings anymore. In the movie,I think Miriam is more of the free bird because she can go anywhere she wants without being judged or looked down at just because she is white. While odessa in the other hand is the sad little “Caged Bird” looking at the “Free Bird That leaps On The Backwinds And Floats Downstream.” Miriam doesn't really notices all this until she starts to see how unfair they are treating odessa and how her freedom is so limited just because of her