All 3 Uses of
therefore
in
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Therefore he couldn't pretend that he wasn't crippled, nor could he deceive himself that people were not repelled by his defect.†
p. 11.7 *therefore = for that reason
- Where some of the other teachers went out of their way to be nice to me—to be a "liberal" with me—and others ignored me completely, Miss Kirwin never seemed to notice that I was Black and therefore different.†
p. 216.7
- I would have reminded him that I was no doctor and therefore was ill equipped to do a thorough examination, but impudence would have diminished my lead.†
p. 247.9
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)