Maya Angelou has written a lot of inspirational things. In her autobiography ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’, she talks a lot about what birds really mean when they sing in their cages. Maya states that she thinks birds singing is actually them screaming for freedom. They are trapped in cages, when they are supposed to be out flying. No one likes to feel trapped, and we are taking winged animals meant to soar and keeping them in a closed contraption. I agree with what Maya says because I think they want to be free. Their singing is their way of yelling for us to let them out. If we were the ones trapped, kept from walking around, we wouldn’t like it either. Maya took something true and made it relatable and foreshadow something we all can understand.
Another thing Maya states is when someone thinks or talks about bad dreams it gives them more power. I completely agree with this theory, it is very logical and understandable. When you continue to talk about something, the topic stays relevant and makes it easier for the “bad” to continue. It is the same way when people carry on dramatic situations. High school is the place where drama lives and breathes. Teenagers gossip and spread rumors, adding more fuel to the drama fire. If we were to drop them right away and not pass it along it would die and not gain more power. I have seen this first hand being in high school myself. One of my best friends had a rumor spread about her, and instead of everyone choosing to not believe it and drop it they continued to spread it. After a couple of weeks the rumor had not only spread over the whole school but it had been told so many times there were about ten different stories floating around the gossip train. Bad dreams are just like drama, no one wants them and they need to be dropped.
Maya Angelou went through a traumatic experience when she was seven years old. Until she reached the age of twelve, she was mute. Maya looked to silence as a way of coping with what happened to her. I myself have never been through anything near what Maya went through, so I of course have no place making an assumption of what I would do in her situation. I know that I personally am a huge talker, it is very hard to go even a day without talking. I just feel that life should be filled with words, they are how we connect with other people. Who actually knows what I would do, something like what happened to Maya changes people, but I think it would be very hard for me to actually stop talking, especially for five years. I love talking, doesn’t matter the situation. I could talk in front of any amount of people, about anything, for any amount of time. It is sometimes a problem, talking too much, but that never seems to stop me. 
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