Mary (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary E. Mebane
- First Published: 1981
- Time of Work: The 1930’s to the 1950’s
- Setting: North Carolina
- Principal Characters: Mary Mebane, Nonnie Mebane, Daddy Mebane, Jesse, Aunt Jo
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Children’s literature
- Subjects: African Americans, Segregation or integration, Family or family life, Racism, South or Southerners, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Education or educators, Poverty or poor people
- Locales: North Carolina
Form and Content
In Mary: An Autobiography, it is initially through the heart of a child that Mary Mebane shows the early years of her life in the rural South in the 1930’s. Mebane’s wide eyes see everything with eagerness and wonder. Of these early years, she reports, “I was in the center of life and I didn’t miss a thing; nothing slipped by unobserved or unnoted. My problems started when I began to comment on what I saw.” Unaware of her deprivation, Mebane grew in observation and in wonder at doodlebugs and grasshoppers, comparing sores and scabs with the...
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