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= The Plot of " Blues Aint No Mocking Bird " By: Toni Cade Bombara =

**1) Conflict:** Man vs. Society
====**2) Exposition:** The narrator and her cousin Cathy are playing in the front yard with the twins from next door, Tyrone and Terry. Meanwhile the narrator's Granny is on the back porch, ladling rum over the Christmas cakes she baked. ==== ====**3) Rising Action:** Two men have been nearby the house all morning shooting them with a camera. They claim they are from the country and are making a film that has to do with food stamps. Granny ask them to leave and get off the property but all they do is move back and keep the film rolling. Granddaddy enters with a hawk over his shoulder and nails it to the door. Soon another hawk is up above, apparently its mate and pecks at them. When it leaves Granddaddy turns to the two men. ====

**6) Resolution:** The day continues as normal and Granny is humming because she is happy they are gone.


 By: Tracy Laurie-Lakhram