All 3 Uses of
enigma
in
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to unravel, from seven years old to death.†
p. 198.6
- Would Momma, who knew the ways of the whites and the wiles of the Blacks, try to answer her grandson, whose very life depended on his not truly understanding the enigma?†
p. 198.9
- She, who had never been more than fifty miles from her birthplace, learned to traverse the maze of Spanish-named streets in that enigma that is Los Angeles.
p. 203.1 *enigma = something that baffles understanding (seems unexplainable)
Definition:
something mysterious that seems unexplainable