I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: Post 2

After finishing Maya Angelou's memoir I now feel like I have an understanding of what her life was like, although I can't personally relate to it. I thought it was interesting how she wrote the memoir. It was in a point of view of herself as a child as well as her point of view as an adult. There were points where she would recount an experience, but seemed to add her new found reaction or understanding of it at present. She told about her time living in the junkyard and the people she met there. She talked about the determination she felt to get the job on the streetcars "to break the restricting tradition," and become the first Negro on the San Francisco streetcars (269). I was also struck by how honest she was, talking about her insecurities about her womanhood and the fear that she might be a lesbian. She also told exactly how her son was conceived and how she felt about this new being which was completely hers. I was a little disappointed in the abrupt ending. I felt there was more to be told about her life, I wanted to know what led her to write this memoir.