I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Essay On Freedom

You may think that freedom and power are not similar at all. For example, in the real world and in the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou everyone must have power to gain freedom and vice versa. Altogether, one must have power to gain freedom and vice versa.
Every person in the whole world has to have freedom in order to achieve power. In the book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings one has to power to gain freedom. Dr. Lincoln owed some money to Momma, and Momma went to Dr. Lincoln to figure out if he could help her since she helped him when he needed money. The author explains, “Momma and her son laughed and laughed over the white man’s evilness and her retributive sin”(pg.164). Dr. Lincoln technically had more power than Momma, but since Dr. Lincoln owed money to Momma, she had more power in that

Marguerite gets embarrassed and decides to live in a junkyard and run away from home. In the book the author states, “During the month that I spent in the yard I learned to drive, to curse and to dance” (pg.215). Marguerite was given freedom because she was able to do anything she wanted and she got power because she learned new things while she was living in the junkyard. Earlier Marguerite explains how wonderful her new teacher is at the new school and how wonderful she is at teaching. In the book the author states, “There were no favorite students, no teacher pets. If a student pleased her during a particular period, he could not count on special treatment in the next days class”(pg.183). The school gave her freedom because the school gave her the choice to learn whatever she wanted to and they gave her no limit. The teacher had no favorites meaning that everyone was equal and making it easier to have the people with power to standout. One may gain power only if they are given freedom. Altogether, you can only get power only if you have freedom in the