Question

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.

Deducing from the diction, which of the following are possible audiences for the memoir? Select all that apply.

train conductors and passengers
Caucasian adults interested in American history
children of three and four years of age like ones in the memoir
African-American adults from the South who can relate to Angelou’s story


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Answer 1

I think that it could be all of the options. A memoir is never typically restricted to a specific age or race. The point of a memoir is to tell the memory's of a different time, and/or the opinions of the memoir's writer. I would select all for the answer, as the memoir is an educative form of literature which is not to be restricted to anyone without proper instruction.

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