Mollie Godfrey’s TED-Ed lesson, animated by Laura White. It would be very difficult for a screen writer to make it an interesting movie.New African listed some of the verbatim objections that have been leveled against I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings– that it encouraged “profanity”, was filled with “descriptions of drug abuse, sexually explicit conduct and torture”, preached “bitterness and hatred against whites”, was “likely to corrupt minors” and contained “inappropriately explicit sexual scenes.”Īngelou, who accused the book’s detractors of not reading more than two words of it, bridled that anyone would “act as if their children are not faced with the same threats.” If this book were a movie would you go see it? Her jerky performance could have been improved by having any professional reader do the performance. How could the performance have been better? She will probably attribute my lack of appreaciation of the book to my white skin.
She thinks she is the only one in the world that had to struggle and overcome. Her cross-bearing, chip-on-her-shoulder attitude and beliefs are at once both the most interesting and least interesting aspect of the book. What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting? When I filtered out the effect of her narration, I appreciated the book more. I read the critical praises of the book and asked myself if they were reading the same book. Her self-reading was the worst narration I have heard and interfered with my enjoyment and appreciation of the book. Maya should have listened to other audiobooks and found out how much a good reading of a book enhances that book. Is there anything you would change about this book? Its a long audiobook, but worth the listen as so much of our life's journey takes twists and turns we can only understand in retrospect, this book shared the hope that we are given life's lemons to make amazing lemonade. Angelou and the amazing light she was to so many, myself included. I never cried, but surely did laugh when it was funny. I felt the highs and lows of the human experience as Maya may have wanted her audience to. Her narration colored the story so vividly that I could often imagine exactly what these places, faces and things would be and feel like.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? What about Maya Angelou’s performance did you like?
My most memorable was, as children, Maya and her brother Bailey laughing uncontrollably during church service when the preacher's false teeth fell out onto the floor. What was one of the most memorable moments of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
triumph over adversity, an amazing story of the human experience at its worst and very best. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
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