<Tr> <Th> Published in </Th> <Td> 1971 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Toni Cade Bambara </Td> </Tr> <P> "Blues Ain't No Mocking Bird" is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara written in 1971 . It is told through the point of view of a young black girl in North America . Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird is about a family whose privacy is invaded by two white 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, tree 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 smashes it . The white men swears and goes away . 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 in storytelling and writing . Granny shares a story with the children and Cathy which relates to her feeling about people filming without permission . To her, life is not to be publicized to everyone because they are not as "good" or wealthy as others . </P> <P> The reader may notice the improper spelling such as' mockin' instead of' mocking' or' nuthin' instead of' nothing' . This is because the story is written in dialect, to give an element of truth to the story . </P>

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