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Title: Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara ISBN: 0-679-73898-3 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 June, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A favorite!
Comment: There are beautiful stories in this highly recommended book. The title story and "My Man Bovanne" are two favorites. Poignant, funny, sad, inspiring, these stories are destined to be American classics. Buy this book!
Rating: 1
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Comment: I think the book Gorilla My Love had no moral value in it what so ever. I read this book for my class, and now here I am stuck wrting a 5 paragraph essay about along with countless other pointless things. Now if you had never written this book, it would have never happened, and I would be enjoying my day. The least yoy could have done is made the story good, but no, now I'm just getting beat over the head with it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Gorrila, My Love
Comment: BenB Gorilla, My Love In eighth grade this year each studentwas assigned to read a book by a black author, I chose Gorilla, MyLove by Toni Cade Bambara. While reading Gorilla, My Love , as a class we were reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. From reading both books at the same time I could see that both books had similar themes and ideas. Both books are mainly about racism through the eyes of a young, teenage, girl. However, in To Kill A Mockingbird the main character is white and in Gorilla, My Love she is black. The main character/narrator in all fifteen short stories in Gorilla, My Love is a black girl living in a cramped apartment complex, in a rough and bitter neighborhood. Each story takes place between the thirties up to the fifties, in a place and time that was more racist towards African Americans. By using a young girl growing up in this setting the reader is able to understand what a black girl would go through in her life. The contrast between the two books was really interesting. In both books racism is a large issue but the perspectives are opposite. In To Kill A Mockingbird the view towards racism is told from an "innocent" white girl, who doesn't understand why people are racist. However, in Gorilla, My Love , racism is viewed by a black girl who is fully aware of racism because it has affected her life so much in the short time she has been alive. Most of To Kill A Mockingbird tells us about racism in some way and in Gorilla, My Love every story is about either racism or the way racism has impacted the lives of her family and friends. In The Lesson, which is on of the short stories, Bambara takes on deep moral issues about racism. The story describes a family who tries to shield their daughter from racism whenever possible. When her grandmother takes her to a fancy white toy store the girl wants to buy a toy but the cashier won't let her because she's black, even though the cashier could become more successful, he won't get past his racist beliefs. Bambara writes about many examples showing just how idiotic racism is. I thought Gorilla, My Love was an eight, from a one through ten scale. It has a lot of great ideas and is very easy to understand. At times the book became rather slow and repetitive but short stories like Hammer Manand My Man Bovanne which both were very good, make up for the uninteresting parts. It was intriguing to see how Bambara's writing differed from Lee's and how they have such similar themes and feelings.
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Title: The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara ISBN: 0679740767 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems by Martin Espada ISBN: 0393316866 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Donald Duk: A Novel by Frank Chin ISBN: 0918273838 Publisher: Coffee House Press Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo : A Novel by Ntozake Shange ISBN: 0312140916 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 15 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Concise Anthology of American Literature (5th Edition) by George McMichael, J.C. Levenson, Leo Marx, David E. Smith, Mae Miller Claxton, Susan Bunn ISBN: 0130289418 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 21 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $66.67 |
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