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Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Essay

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The novel, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, is a book set in Mississippi in 1933. It is about a family, the Logan’s, and the hardships that they face being black landowners in this time period. There are a lot of difficult decisions in this book, such as, Papa setting the fence on fire, the trip to the Berry’s house, and Mama continuing to teach history when the school board came. One of the difficult decisions in the book was when Papa lit their fence on fire. It had to have been a hard decision because he knew that it might set some of the cotton trees on fire. He did it anyway so, that TJ would not get killed. “Papa had found a way, as Mama had asked, to make Mr. Granger stop the hanging: He had started the fire.” This is a sentence about when Cassie figured out why Stacey wouldn’t tell her what happened. She figured out that he didn’t want to admit that Papa had set the fire, considering how it got some of their trees burnt up. It also had to have been a hard decision for Papa to make because TJ had caused a lot of problems for their family. It was a really silly thing to do, but it brought the community together a little bit. It ended up being a kind of good thing even though it got them less money. If they would have …show more content…

It had to have been hard for her to decide to take them there because Mr. Berry was burned in the fire. It would have been hard for them not stare since they were young children. It had to be hard for Mama to let them see him too because she didn’t know how badly he was burnt and what he would look like. “... telling them the news of the community as if Mr. Berry was as normal as everyone else.” It proves that Cassie doesn’t think that Mr. Berry is like anyone else. “He can’t speak no more. The fire burned him too bad.” Mrs. Berry said that. That means that he can’t do as much as other people because he can’t

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