I finished I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings last week and was honestly intrigued by how the book ended. While reading a romance novel, Marguerite finds her own sexuality ignited. Curious and seeking to understand, she plots to be intimate with one of her neighbors but finds the whole event itself to be awkward and afterwards it leaves her feeling indifferent. Three weeks later, she realizes she's pregnant and hides this fact from everyone (but her brother Bailey, of course) before ultimately she has to tell her step-father. Once her son is born, she is terrified of handling him. Marguerite believes that she will break him, but in the end she comes to accept that she and her newborn will be just fine.
To me, this was a very realistic kind of ending. The whole book felt realistic, never fake or forced, and yet it still had that flare of imagination and beauty to it. For me that was what was most enjoyable while reading the memoir. Maya Angelou's writing itself is mesmerizing, adding on the story only hooked you page to page even further. I never wanted to stop where the class requirement said to stop.
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