I just recently read a book called "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou. It contains events that have happen in her childhood. Having to deal with devorce of her parents, racist, love, family, and being raped, Maya tells us her story in this book. It all starts with Maya and her brother Bailey Jr. At the age of three and four ridding across the country from California to Arkansas into a town called Stamps. They lived with their grandmother that they call Momma and their Uncle Willie. Momma and Uncle Willie are strict people who would drill the importance of education in their brains. During that time, Maya started to develope a crush on Shakespeare and literature. The story continues with how Maya and Bailey Jr. was than moved from Stamps to St. Louis to Stamps again and then to the west coast. It also describe the hurdles that they had to overcome and finally the book ends with how she's freaking out about her being pregnant in the result of doing it with one of the neighborhood boys and hiding it all the way through graduation and about how she is going to be a good mother.  Reading this book was immotional and interesting on how her story rolled out. I hope that in this day and age that rape would not occur however it does and I really hope the the rapier would die a long painful death not like how Maya's raper who didn't spend his time in jail but was murdered. I recommend people to this biography if they want to her a story about a girl in the 1930's through 1940's.