Maya Angelou Research Paper

ASA College

English composition II

ENG 205

Professor: Holly Eaton

Spring 2016

Maya Angelou

By: Moataz Karoush

Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

We can say that Maya Angelou live was not an easy one. A live full of sufferance and joyful that make her one of the most influence writer in the 20 century. Maya Angelou was an American author, poet, and civil rights activist.

Her real name was Marguerite Annie Johnson, she was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was

I chose her because she is a unique woman who lived a lot of tragedy, struggling and pain, but she became one of the greatest ever, as The Guardian writer Gary Younge, 2009 said “To know her life story is to wonder what on earth you have been doing with your own life

Angelou is best known for her seven autobiographies; the way she wrote these autobiographies was something new that she adding fiction to her writing. Angelou's use of fable-writing techniques such as dialogue, characterization, and development of composition, setting, plot, and linguistic communication has frequently resulted in the arrangement of her books into the genre of autobiographical fiction. In 1993, Angelou was chosen to read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, she has become the first writer women to create an inaugural recitation. This event made her more famous all around the world. She received lots of prizes and more than 50 honorary degrees.

In addition to all of that and before she become a writer and a poet She worked in many other jobs like fry cook, nightclub dancer and performer and an actor in different plays, movies, and public television

Her brother told the family and her mother boyfriend was found guilty but he put in the Gail for only one day. Four days after that, he was murdered, may be by her uncles. Angelou stop talking for nearly five years, believing that because she said about what happened to her the man was killed. as she stated, "I thought, my voice killed him; I killed that man, because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone..."

By the support from her teacher and her family friend, Mrs. Bertha Flowers, who introduced her to the different writer, made her read a lot of books, Angelou developed an extraordinary memory, fall in love with book, literature and poem.

In 1967, she wrote her first autobiographies, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This book is about her life up to age 17 in a fiction way of writing. This book brought her an international