Analysis Of Toni Cade Bambara's Blues Ain T No Mockin Bird

Throughout history, human rights have often been suppressed. As a result, many people feel violated and angry toward those who suppress it. One of the reasons that this is an issue is because, people often feel superior to others ruining a feeling of equality among others. This reason is displayed in Toni Cade Bambara’s “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird.” In this short story, two cameramen are filming Granny’s family without her permission. The cameramen are filming them for the county assuming that they are poor and on food stamps. Granny proceeds to thry to get them to leave until her husband, Granddaddy Cain, dismantles their camera. In “Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird,” Bambara reveals the theme that human rights are often suppressed by people who view themselves superior to others. Metaphor and conflict are used to reveal this theme. …show more content…
In the story, a few camera men arrived to the house of Grandma and start recording her family and home without permission. She feels that they did not care for her so she tells them a story in order to display her feelings. She says:
“‘I was on this bridge this one time,’ she started off. ‘Was a crowd cause this man was going to jump, you understand. And a minister was there and the police and some other folk. His woman was there, too.’ … Here comes … this person … with a camera, takin pictures of the man and the minister and the woman. Takin pictures of the man in his misery about to jump, cause life so bad and people been messin with him so bad. This person takin up the whole roll of film practically. But savin a few, of course’”