I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings And Tim O Brien s The...

Similar to how the great painter Pablo Picasso paints a picture using colors on a canvas, an author paints an image in the reader s mind through the style that they can write. The way an author chooses to write their novel can help the reader understand the author s personality, beliefs, and general lifestyle. Every author who has ever written anything from a letter to a friend to a novel has their own personal writing style unique to their author that can be observed through their works. Maya Angelou s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried are no exception to this rule, and each show the similarities and differences in the author s personality. There are many similarities between the style of writing in Maya Angelou s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. For example, in Maya Angelou s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou wrote â€Å"The truth of the statement was like a wadded-up handkerchief, sopping wet in my fists, and the sooner they accepted it the quicker I could let my hands open and the air would cool my poem†(1). This incredibly detailed quote shows how incredibly detailed Maya Angelou writes in her works and how well she applies imagery in her writing. Similar in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien writes â€Å"And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about sunlight. It’s about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know