A Choice of Weapons (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gordon Parks
- First Published: 1965
- Time of Work: 1928–1943
- Setting: Kansas; St. Paul, Minnesota; Chicago; and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Gordon Parks, Sally Alvis, Roy Stryker
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Social reform, Autobiography, 1940’s, 1930’s, Poverty or poor people, Photography or photographers, Composers
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Washington, D.C., Kansas, St. Paul, MN
Form and Content
In A Choice of Weapons, a traditional autobiography in twenty-four chapters, Gordon Parks covers fifteen years in his eventful life. The narrative begins when Parks, the youngest of thirteen children, is sixteen years old. His mother has just died, and the family honors her last wish—that Parks leave Kansas and move north to St. Paul, Minnesota, to live with his sister. In the first few chapters, Parks describes growing up in Kansas, material that is also covered in detail in his classic, autobiographical young adult novel, The Learning Tree...
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