Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou and answer the question. when i was three and bailey four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed – ‘to whom it may concern’ – that we were marguerite and bailey johnson jr. … negro passengers, who always traveled with loaded lunch boxes, felt sorry for ‘the poor little motherless darlings’ and plied us with cold fried chicken and potato salad. which of the following best describes the narrative point of view of the above excerpt? told from “i” as an adult thinking about meaning of the event told from view of the negro passengers who see the children told from “i” as if she is a child reliving the event told from reader’s point of view
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The correct answer is A.

This passage from Maya Angelou's " I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is written in first person.

She is telling a story from her childhood, but is writing it from her adult perspective, thinking and analizing the events that took place years before. She does not include what she though or felt when she was living the expierence, she merely retells it, to explain the reader about her own story.

Told from “I” as an adult thinking about meaning of the event.

Explanation:

Maya Angelou's autobiography "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" is one of the most famous recollections of a black woman's life during the racism period in America. She recounts her earlier years when she had to endure all sorts of abuses and prejudices due to her negro heritage.

The given excerpt from Chapter I of the book shows Angelou recounting her childhood story of how she and her brother were travelling in a train without any family escort. Their name-tags hanging for whatever issues that may arise, she describes how she had managed to survive. The narrative point of view is that of the adult narrator, using the "I" showing the event/ scene from an adult's perspective.

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explanation:

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”