Question

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

Answer 1

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

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

Answer 2

The phrase from the passage, which most helps the reader to identify author Maya Angelou's viewpoint about Mrs. Flowers is this this: THREW ME MY FIRST LIFE LINE.

Mrs. Flower was identified in the passage above as the one who gave the first life line to character in the passage. Generally, life line refers to a rope that is usually used to rescue people who are in dangerous situations. So, what the character in the passage is saying is that, Mrs Flower was the first person who did something that brought a positive change to her life.