Dec 18, 2009

A Choice of Weapons | A Choice of Weapons

At a glance:

Author: Gordon Parks, Sr.
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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A Choice of Weapons | A Choice of Weapons

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Form and Content

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