I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Movie and Book Essay -- Movie Film co

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Movie and Book   The novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou is the first series of quintet autobiographical novels. This novel tells about her life in rural Stamps, Arkansas with her religious grandm separate and St. Louis, Missouri, where her worldly and glamorous mother resides. At the age of troika Maya and her four-year old brother, Bailey, are turned over to the care of their paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Southern life in Stamps, Arkansas was filled with humiliation, violation, and displacement. These actions were exemplified for blacks by the upkeep of the Ku Klux Klan, racial separation of the town, and the many incidents in belittling blacks. Maya knows that to be black and female is to be faced with violence and violation. This is brought into focus when she goes to live with her mother and is set on by her mothers boyfriend. When Maya is faced with this catastrophe, tells who did this to her, and th e man is killed, she believes her voice killed him. She withdraws into herself and vows never to speak again. Her mother feeling that she has done everything in her power to make Maya talk, plainly can cannot reach her, sends Maya and her brother back to Stamps. After Maya returns to Stamps and with the help of her Teacher-Ms. Flowers she begins to speak again. The culmination of the novel is when Maya describes her eighth grade graduation. Angelou, her classmates, and parents listen to the condescending and racist elbow room in which the guest speaker talks. After listening to his insults, Maya realizes she is the master of her fate which was expressed in the valedictory address given by her classmate. Maya becomes a individual parent at the age of eighteen, bu... ..., the film portrayed the kids being overly whelmed with hatred when they received gifts from their parents. It was like they never knew their parents existed. Another example of the difference in the midst of the book and the movie is Mr. Freeman (mothers boyfriend) was presented as being very reserved with the children. In the movie he was seen as warm, talkative, and friendly towards Maya and her brother. The film to a fault showed Mr. Freemans manly behavior by confronting Vivian (Mayas mother) at her job. However, in the book Mr. Freeman never left the house, he always sit and waited at home for her. Although reality involves a vast supply of details and you can not select them all. Many writers, directors, and artists, emphasis with this information and diminish other information in order to make the novels, movies, plays and etc. more vivid to our imagination.