Land. The only thing that no one can take away from the Logan’s. In Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the story explains how Jim Crow seems to control the lives of the Logan family. Throughout the novel, the Logan’s live in fear and humiliation; the only thing keeping the family together is land. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry justifies that owning land was important during Jim Crow because it gives the Logan’s freedom. The novel addresses this theme with the evidence of how the Logan’s are safe, they do not sharecrop and they have the right to help the community.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry demonstrates why land gave the Logan’s freedom because they do not sharecrop. Sharecropping is when a person works on a person’s land.
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During Jim Crow, many people were racist and cruel to colored people. After the incident with Cassie and Lillian Jean in Strawberry, Mama lectured Cassie that she “have to accept the fact that in the world outside this house, things are not always as we would have them to be” (126). In other words, Cassie is only safe from racism and harm in the land that she lives in.
Having the right to help the community is the third reason why land gave the Logan’s freedom. Most colored people do not have the right to help people because they do not own any property. When Papa came home to say that Mr. Morrison was going to stay with the Logan’s, they we’re allowed to do so because they’re the landowners. If the Logan’s lived in someone else’s land, it is most likely that the landowner will not accept Mr. Morrison living in his property.
People may think that land does not actually give the Logan’s that much freedom because they are still victims of segregation. Although it is true that it owning land does not completely give the Logan’s freedom, it could have been worse if they didn’t. For example, the Avery’s do not own land, which means that they have to live in another person’s land and sharecrop. The Logan’s are very lucky, having this much freedom is very