Book review on the book "I know why the caged bird sings." What the book was about, and why the author wrote the book.

Maya Angelou uses her captivating childhood to entrance her readers into the life of a young black girl in the 1930s-1940s and she shows her life experiences of heartbreak, seperation, admiration and many other qualities to take us through her life in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas where she spent a portion of her life living with her emotionally strong and stern grandmother and her father like figure of an uncle.
Later on she moves with her mother to St. Lois and then to California during World War 2 as young Maya tries to change to city life with the help of her brother Bailey whom s…