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Are Papa and Mama good parents?
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Are Papa and Mama good parents? Both Papa and Mama are parents, unlike those we are all used to seeing in today's society. Their role in the family, their discipline and order and most importantly their esteem is greater than great. To say they are successful parents, is quite an understatement, for they are bringing up four lack children in the white-dominated Mississippi of the nineteen thirties and succeeding quite extraordinarily. The first time we meet Mama is when Ms Crocker is informing her of Cassie and Little Mans "inappropriate" behaviour in class, earlier that day. The "crime" of the kids was that they had rebelled against the labelling of them as Negroes in the class readers. Our first impression of Mama is that she is understanding yet diplomatic. She knows that what her children done was no crime and that Ms Crocker should not force them to accept the prejudiced...
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