Read the passage from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”

For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible. Then I met, or rather got to know, the lady who threw me my first life line.

Which phrase from the passage most helps the reader to identify author Maya Angelou’s viewpoint about Mrs. Flowers?

I sopped around the house
an old biscuit
dirty and inedible
threw me my first life line

In the passage from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou makes reference to Mrs Flowers, a refined educated woman who made a great impact on her. In that respect, she takes an interest in Maya and stimulates her love for literature, which encourages her to speak again after her abuse.

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jayilych4real jayilych4real · Answer 2 · 2022-07-05T11:44:38+02:00

The phrase from the passage that most helps the reader to identify author Maya Angelou’s viewpoint about Mrs. Flowers is D. threw me my first life line

What is a Viewpoint?

This refers to the way and manner a person sees a person or thing from his perspective and can be biased.

Hence, we can see that from the given passage, there is the narration of the help of an old lady that helped the narrator to read and write and we can see that the viewpoint about Mrs. Flowers can be seen as someone that helped her.

Therefore, the correct answer is option D.