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Blues Ain T No Mockingbird Short Story

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The best short-story we read was Blues Ain't No Mockingbird by Toni Cade Bambara. The story starts out with a small group of children playing outside. Then, as the kids are playing and minding their own business, Granny notices men around the bushes with cameras and tells the children “Go tell that man we ain't a bunch of trees.” Before the kids get a chance to do so the cameraman, Camera and Smilin, come and attempt to talk to Granny. She doesn't buy what they're selling and instead chooses to tell the kids the story of the man on the bridge. Granddaddy Cain then comes into the story, with a king-like presence, and after his entrance he nails the chicken hawk he had killed to the door. Next, the mate to the other chicken hawk comes and
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