Narrator. The narrator is a young girl through whose curious and engaged eyes the reader absorbs the events of the story. The narrator looks up to her cousin Cathy, whose perceptiveness outstrips the narrator's own.

"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.

Climax. Grandaddy ruins the film of the camera men because they are standing in his wife's flowerbed.

Throughout her career, Bambara used her fiction writing as a forum for teaching people how to better their lives and how to demand more for themselves. Critics at the time of Gorilla, My Love's publication saw in her fiction a true voice.

The camera is such a central symbol that the narrator calls one of the county men “Camera” and the other “Smilin”; “Camera” holds the camera, and he represents the watchful eye of whiteness.

From the title of the story, the reader can infer that "blues", or misfortunes, of others are unlike the mockingbird and do not suggest self-pity or death. More clearly, the misfortunes of others should not be exploited or mocked.

"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. The story is about a family whose privacy is invaded by two white cameramen who are making a film for the county's food stamp program.