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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The theme of Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird" revolves around the negative aspects of stereotyping. Supposedly, the filmmakers are recording for the food stamp program, but it...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The central theme of “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” by Toni Cade Bambara is respect for others, including their social and emotional situations. A two-man crew takes pictures around the Cain’s far,...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The three significant symbols in Toni Cade Bambara’s “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” are the ladle, the chicken hawks, and the hammer. The author introduces Granny as she is ladling rum over her...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird," Granny tells Granddaddy Cain to get the two camera-men out of her flower bed. Granddaddy Cain has just come back from hunting, and he has brought a dead hawk home,...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” by Toni Cade Bambara, the author uses a flashback in which Granny tells the story of a man on the brink of committing suicide by jumping off a bridge. She describes...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Though the setting of Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" is not fully identified, we can tell the story takes place in the U.S. South due to the two dialects found in the story. One...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Granny didn't finish her story about the man on the bridge because both Terry and Tyrone failed to understand the significance of her tale. On the surface, Granny's story is about a man who was on...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird," the narrator explains why Granny moves around so much soon after Granny relays to the kids her story of the man being photographed who was...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Granny and Grandaddy Cain demonstrate their self-respect in the manner that they do not permit the interlopers on their property to film and exploit them. When the camera man and his companion...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” she provides insight into the character traits of Granddaddy and Granny through direct descriptions and through their actions. The...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
in "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird," the two hawks do symbolize Granny and Granddaddy Cain because they are attacked in their own environment. Granny and Granddaddy want the film crew to leave, stating...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The narrator is impressed by Cathy, and characterizes her as a superior, even though she is still a child and is also a newcomer. This is because of Cathy's ability to be perceptive and to explain...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The usual spelling of mockingbird author Toni Cade Bambara uses in her title "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," as seen in her volume of short stories the work was first published in, tilted Gorilla, My...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The climax in any story is the turning point of the story, the moment rising action becomes falling action. It can also be the most intense moment in the story. In Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The style of "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" seems more realistic and appropriate to the theme than the tone of Toni Cade Bambara's short story. "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" is told from the...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" takes place in the front yard of a poor black family. The house and yard are surrounded by a meadow (which is where the men with...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Birds in general are a strong symbol for transcendence and elevation of the spirit and intellect. Like a bird, the inner being can spread it's wings and reach new heights. Birds represent the...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
One of the most dominant conflicts in Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird" is character vs. character. Granny Cain has discovered that two men are filming the fields around her...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
When the men with the cameras take pictures near the Cains's place, Granny exhibits several times verbal irony in her speech. With verbal irony being the saying of one thing when actually something...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," Granny resents the filmmakers and cameraman for several reasons, and they are all good and right reasons. First, after asking if they could film her and her family...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Titles in literature are often very significant, and the title of Toni Cade Bambara's story "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" is no exception. For those from the South, the mockingbird is a common...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird," Toni Bambara uses the technique of indirect characterization for the narrator and the techniques of both direct and indirect characterization for other characters....
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," Granddaddy kills the first hawk because it is the mate of a giant hawk that will come for her and he can then kill it and be rid of both hawks who...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Cathy, in "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," is a third cousin with a special gift of understanding the unstated suggestions of life, for example, she knew why photographers who were photographing a man...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
When the men from the Public Works Program unexpectedly appear in the yard of the Cains uninvited, Granny emerges quickly on the steps with the back screen door banging "soft and scratchy against...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
When Granny tells the men filming the yard that she does not want them to do so, the two men back out of the yard, but the camera man continues filming, even when she asks that they turn off the...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The resolution, or denouement, is the final unraveling of all the complications of the plot. In "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" by Toni Cade Bambara, the child who is the first-person narrator...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The reaction of destroying the camera is justified by Granddaddy Cain because he recognizes by the moaning sounds of Granny that the men have intruded upon their property and upset his wife with...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Authors use characterization to make a character come to life for a reader. Through characterization, the reader can learn how the character talks, thinks, feels, behaves, what the character looks...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
An idiom is a frequently used phrase within a culture that is interpreted to mean something other than what the words in the phrase literally mean. Idioms are colorful expressions, meaning rich,...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," the two men who are on Granny Cain's property are filmmakers. They also have their cameraman with them. Only one of the two men is given a name by the narrator. She...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Both hawks are killed by Granddaddy Cain in Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird." The first is hunted by Granddaddy for dinner, whereas the second is killed to keep it from...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
When Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" begins, Granddaddy Cain appears wearing work clothes. I can see Granddaddy Cain comin through the woods in his field boots...the shiny black...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The term falling action refers to events in any story that occur after the climax and lead to the story's resolution. The climax in Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" intensifies when...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Toni Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" is a story whose subject is the exploitation of one group by another. Like the chicken hawk, the two cameramen are intrusive as they come onto the...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The two men, who are shooting a film ‘‘about food stamps’’ for the county move away after Granny comes outside, but they continue filming anyway as they have no respect for her wish to be left...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The term tone is defined as the author's attitude toward the subject or the audience. Tone is expressed through the writer's word choices, which helps capture the way in which the writer is...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," Granny speech directed at the filmmakers gives two clear messages. The first is that they have no permission to film her and her family and equally no permission to...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," for the most part, the children play the role of onlookers while the adults are given the active roles in the conflict. Although Granny tells Cathy...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In documentary filmmaking, a cameraman holds the objective eye (the camera) of the filmmaker, providing the objective lense through which truth is seen. A cameraman can manipulate the camera so as...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The children are intrigued and amused by the two men. However, they are also distrustful of the men's motives. In the story, the narrator and her sister, Cathy, watch as two visitors walk onto...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Told from the point of view of one of the black children who possesses a wry sense of humor, Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" provides the child's interpretations of...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
"Wolf men" is an appropriate term for the filmmaker visitors, both for the way they physically appear and for what they represent to the other characters of the story. The cameramen clearly were...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
A great deal of evidence is present in Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" to explain exactly why Granny is upset by the men filming her house and family with their...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The photographers appear to be filming in the area on behalf of the county for the food stamp program. In the story, two men are taking pictures of the area residents, their homes, and their...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Cade Bambara’s “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” Granddaddy walks into the conflict as he returns to the farm from the surrounding woods. Granny attempts to use her sarcasm and the silent...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In "Blues Ani't No Mockin Bird," the filmmakers explain that they are filming a documentary movie for the county that presents information on the Federal and State Food Stamp Program to help...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The conflict of Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockingbird" is a conflict of race and representation. When the men arrive on Granny's property they take the liberty of filming the house...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
There are many characters in "Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird,” but only some of them are central to the story’s conflict, while the rest are onlookers and observers. Granny and Granddaddy are most...
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Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Granny is offended by the men from the county in “Blues Ain’t No Mockingbird” by Toni Cade Bambara. The first mistake the men make is filming Granny’s property without her permission. They hid in...