In "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," a young black girl recounts an incident in which two white filmmakers attempted to film her home and family over the protests of her grandmother.
Toni Cade Bambara's use of dialect has been highly praised by readers and critics. Her ability to capture the cadences and languages of rural Southern black speech has been equated with Mark Twain's ability to capture the dialects of nineteenth-century American speech.
The informal and conversational tone of "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" allows the narrator to "talk" to us in her own voice, and her figurative language conveys as much of the story's themes as any action of the plot. When the twins ask Granny what happened to the man who was going to jump off the bridge, the narrator reports: "And.....
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