"Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara written in 1971. It is told through the point of view of a young girl in southern America. Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird is about a family whose privacy is invaded by two cameramen who are making a film for the county's food stamp program. In this story, the little girl is playing with her neighbors, Tyrone and Terry and cousin, Cathy at her grandmother’s house. Her grandmother is on...
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"Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara written in 1971. It is told through the point of view of a young girl in southern America. Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird is about a family whose privacy is invaded by two cameramen who are making a film for the county's food stamp program. In this story, the little girl is playing with her neighbors, Tyrone and Terry and cousin, Cathy at her grandmother’s house. Her grandmother is on the back porch spreading rum on the cakes she has made. Two white filmmakers, shooting a film ‘‘about food stamps’’ for the county, lurk near their yard. The little girl’s grandmother asks them to leave but not listening to her request, they simply move farther away. When Granddaddy Cain returns from hunting a chicken hawk, he takes the camera from the men and slips a part out so the film is exposed. Cathy, the distant cousin of the little girl, displays a precocious ability to interpret other people’s actions and words as well as an interest...
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