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 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