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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Literary Analysis As shown in by Maya Angelou, Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin and Family Portrait by Alicia Moore, family greatly affects who a person grows up to be. All of these writings show examples of children living their lives based on how their parents lived their lives. However, they all have different styles and methods of expressing their ideas. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the author tells about her home life using metaphors. She speaks of them almost as if they were interesting people she just happened to come into contact with in her life, other than her family. Maya Angelou very rarely quoted anything her mother said. She talks about her a lot, but didn’t include much dialogue between her mother and herself in her memoirs. However, she did comment a lot on her mother’s exterior. “My mother’s beauty literally assailed me. Her red lips split to show even white teeth and her fresh-butter color looked see-through clean.” Maya commented on her mother’s appearance quite often, which led me to believe that she never really knew her mother all that well. All caged, bird, know, sings, family, time, never, much, mother, maya, just, seemed, i’ll, father, cradle, years, theme, show, should, said, quite, portrait, parents, mother’s, moore, lives, kids, home, grows, doesn’t, cat’s, author, angelou, alicia, about