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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: Chapter 25 Notes

Chapter 25



1. In this chapter, Maya and Bailey are introduced to the idea of being moved to California, this being because of Bailey's incident with a murdered black man.



2.a) In this chapter Maya Angelou gives us some more insight on Mamma's character, she establishes the reason for Mamma's secretive and over-protective nature "Her African-bush secretiveness and suspiciousness had been compounded by slavery and confirmed by centuries of promises made and promises broken. We have a saying among Black Americans, which explains Mamma's caution. ‘ If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going'" (Angelou 164). In this paragraph Maya Angelou lets us know why Negroes at that time were so shielding of their privacy and how this related to Mamma telling them a ‘part truth' to cover up the ‘real truth' for them being sent away. Maya effectively develops Mamma through the situation that occurred when Bailey came home in horror " ‘ When I......


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