Sandra Cisneros has spent a lifetime trying to discover her own literary voice, only to be drowned out by the mostly white and mostly white voices that she imitated but never identified with. The only daughter in a family with six sons, Cisneros was often the "odd-woman-out-forever" early on in life. It was not until she was enrolled in the Iowa Writers Workshop that she finally discovered that her experience as a woman and a …showed first 75 words of 2457 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2457 total…w difficulty but interesting it was to grow up in the mid 1930's. I feel that her message from the book is love what you have and know, not what you don't have and don't know. I truly learned a lesson from Maya and her book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I have learned to be thankful for what I have and the time period that I am living in, to enjoy it.