I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou's Autobiography #1

Maya Angelou

281 pages first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
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In the first volume of her extraordinary autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood in the American South of the 1930s. She and her brother live with their grandmother, in Stamps, Arkansas, where Maya learns the power of the “whi...

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Moods

emotional 80%
reflective 74%
inspiring 52%
sad 35%
challenging 34%
hopeful 29%
dark 24%
informative 23%
funny 13%
tense 10%
adventurous 6%
lighthearted 1%

Pace

medium 62%
slow 24%
fast 12%

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