The Theme of Violence in Cage Bird, Giving Blood, Sand Creek, and An Episode of War

This statement reflects that Angel is "closed" in his situation and shows how racist violence and negative thoughts towards himself lead to self-destruction. Feed Angelou's negative reaction. The free birds in this poem represent the possibilities of Angelou and represent hope and dream for the future. Next, in Sherman Aleksey's "blood donation", the hero needs money to send a taxi fare to the blood donation bank.

One of the themes "I know why the birds in the cage sing" is a broad racial discrimination between white and black. Angelou uses the symbol of "free bird" to represent the "cage bird" of the dominant white and suppressed black tribe. Through the six sections, the speaker repeatedly alternated between the safe and unbound life of "free birds" and the enslaved broken life of "cage birds" using reflected sounds. "Free birds", Enjoy the sun, "Floating in the river" - As if everything is paved to relieve the freedom of life, the worm it brings is not just a worm, it's all an "obesity" worm - Privileged Life is further promoted. However, "birds in the cage" was not only enslaved in "his narrow cage" but his "wings were grabbed" and "tied up by the feet". It means the fact that how to deal with the colored race compared to whites. They are deprived of their fundamental rights to exercise their will and to go where they want.

Cage birds are often used to symbolize restrictions. For example, Maya Angelou used a bird in a cage to criticize the ethnic oppression in her poetry; I know why birds in a cage sing. This is also a popular theme for songs like Alicia's key song "Caged bird" which also shows that birds in the cage symbolize the lack of freedom. In this play, Mrs. Light himself is a cage bird, she likes to sing even. When a woman found a bird, they noticed that the light killed her husband because her husband prevented communication and release with others. Mr. Wright's act of killing a bird symbolizes how he strangled his wife and how he suppresses her.