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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Chapter 1, Cassie and her brothers are greatly disturbed to hear that men of their congregation have been set on fire. This incident creates anxiety in itself, but when their father issues them...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
[Please note that at enotes, educators do not complete written assignments for students. We are, however, happy to offer guidelines and suggestions.] Because the assignment is a newspaper story, a...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Chapter 11, TJ struggles to get back home after a brutal beating at RW and Melvin's hands. However, TJ isn't home for long when a mob descends upon his house, and a group of men forcibly drag...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Cassie says Stacey feels responsible for T.J. because he realizes that he is vulnerable. Cassie says she doesn’t really like T.J., and neither does their brother Little Man. Stacey is much more...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Papa was justified in setting fire to the cotton because he was trying to protect his family and the Averys. Papa had to do something because things had become very serious. The Wallaces were...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Chapter 11, T.J. shows up at the Logans' house and tells them he's been badly hurt. R.W. and Melvin Simms tricked him into robbing Mr. Barnett's store in Strawberry. The Simms brothers wore...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Logans’ most valuable possession was their land. Very few people own land in the Logans’ area, and of them very few are black. Most of the blacks were previously slaves, and then might be...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mr. Jamison is one of the few white people in the novel who treats the Logan family and other African-American people with respect. As Cassie says in Chapter 4 about Mr. Jamison, "He was the only...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mr. Morrison is a very muscular, strong, "giant" of a man with whom Papa has worked on the railroad. Since he has lost his job, Papa has asked him to accompany him home because he needs another man...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Chapter 7, Stacey gives his new coat away to T.J. after T.J. makes fun of it and says that Stacey looks like a preacher while wearing it. Uncle Hammer lectures Stacey: "If you ain't got the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Cassie’s Middle name is Deborah. Cassie does not use her middle name often. Her mother uses it when she gives her a copy of The Three Musketeers. When she receives the book for Christmas, it is...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The last days before Christmas are hard for Cassie because her father has not come home yet. Papa’s brother Uncle Hammer arrived before Papa for Christmas. Papa was off working for the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Chapter 11, T.J. comes to Stacey for help after R.W. and Melvin Simms beat him up. The Simms brothers told T.J. that they were going to get a pistol from Mr. Barnett's store and that they were...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Cassie learns from Big Ma how Mr. Paul Edward, her grandfather and former slave, acquired the 400 acres of land in Spokane County, Mississippi, that once belonged to the Grangers. One day the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The most important event from this chapter is Cassie’s altercation with Lillian Jean, the white girl who behaves in a racist manner toward her. Even as an African-American child, Cassie...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
This statement comes from Chapter 3 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Cassie and her siblings have dug a deep ditch to get back at the driver of the white children's bus, as he always sprays them...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Characters in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry often stammer or stutter when there is simply nothing they can say about hideous incidents that are motivated by horrible racial prejudice. For example,...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
This conversation takes place in Chapter 7 and is a significant one. It reveals not only how horrible the violence and murders were, but also how Mr. Morrison's family was decidedly human despite...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mama explains that Big Ma was protecting Cassie when she made her apologize. Cassie is like most young girls. She is trying to figure out how the world works. As far as she is concerned, Lillian...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Chapter 5 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mr. Simms forces Cassie to apologize to his daughter, Lillian Jean, for running into her. A rude man, Mr. Simms also pushes Cassie off the sidewalk....
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Papa comes home and the Logans have a Christmas feast with the Averys. Christmas dinner is a big celebration. It is also a big undertaking. It takes a long time to cook, and the meal is made by...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Chapter 2 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Papa brings Mr. L.T. Morrison home with him. Mr. Morrison is described as a powerful, hulking man: "The man was a human tree in height, towering high...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mr. Morrison is not a relative of the Logans, the main family in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, but he comes to live with them and plays a large part in their lives. Mr. Morrison first appears in...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mr. L. T. Morrison has not been dismissed from his job with the railroad for missing work; he is fired for being in a fight. In Chapter 2 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mr. Logan brings home with...
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The Land
Although the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry deals with difficult details of segregation and racial prejudice, it is designed for middle grades students to read. This novel seeks to introduce...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Chapter Five, as Cassie, Big Ma, Stacey, and TJ head for the market in Strawberry, it is three-thirty in the morning, and TJ is initially subdued—"but by dawn, when the December sun was...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Stacey shows courage by standing up to others and protecting his friend. Stacey stands up for himself and what he believes in. He has a very strong moral code. For example, when Stacey gets in...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Stacey does not tell Claude about the prank with the school bus because he thinks that T.J. talks too much and if he told Claude he would have to tell T.J. too. In the beginning of the story, the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Since the rising action of a literary work consists of several actions that build to the climax of the plot, such action in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry involves the number of incidents that...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry takes place in rural Mississippi in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. The main family in the book, the Logans, are not well off, although they have more than many...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Papa makes the children swear that they will not go near the Wallace store. In Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, set in rural Mississippi in 1933, racial inequities and violations are...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Papa has to make extra money to pay for the taxes the Logans owe on their land because the price of cotton dropped due to the Great Depression. The Logans are farmers. Even though the Logan family...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor writes the story of “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” from a nine-year old’s first person point of view. The main character, Cassie Logan, narrates the story as she comes to...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Christmas is clearly a very special event in the Logan household, and because of that, they have a very special dinner, with more (and fancier) dishes than they would normally eat for dinner. On...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
You can use context clues to figure out where the children are going at the beginning of the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Let's look at the first two lines, which are lines of dialogue (a...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Chapter 2 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mr. Logan returns to his home in Mississippi with a Mr. Morrison, who has lost his job on the railroad in Louisiana. When the family attends church on...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
T.J.'s first mistake is believing that RW and Melvin plan to pay for the pistol they promised to buy him. When he accompanies the brothers to the mercantile store and the three of them find the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Jeremy Simms, described as a "strange boy," is an eleven-year-old white boy who tries to be friends with Stacey and the other Logan children. Along with the attorney Wade Jamison, Jeremy's role is...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
You would first need to choose a perspective to do it from. Are you writing from the perspective of a black person in the community? If so, you would write an article explaining how bad things...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Hello! You asked about Big Ma and Cassie in Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry. On this particular day, Big Ma, Cassie, her brother Stacey and his thirteen year old friend TJ are on their way to...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor's depiction of the racially-divided environment in which the Logans live and strive for a better life certainly provides examples of both instructional qualities and moral lessons,...
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Tom's Midnight Garden
In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Cassie (the main character) looks up to her mother. Her mother, Mary, is a strong woman who can hold her own against those who oppose her. She works as a school...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In the opening chapter of Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, it is the first day of school, but the Logan children are discontent. Cassie, the narrator, regrets having to go to school...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Uncle Hammer, who is a formidable appearing man, returns to the farm because he has learned of the trouble that brews. First of all, his sister-in-law, Cassie's mother has begun a boycott on the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Uncle Hammer lets T.J. keep the coat when he finds out that Stacey gave it to him. Uncle Hammer notices that Stacey’s “faded cotton jacket” is too small for him. He buys him a nice,...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
A conflict is Harlan Granger’s dispute with the Logan’s over their land. A conflict is a struggle between opposing forces. Since this story takes place during the Great Depression in the Deep...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Logan children learn to take on the role of agents of change by the example of the adult members of their family, as well as from their words of advice and encouragement . From their parents...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Farming is an example of character vs. nature, and so is fire used by whites to harass that sharecroppers. A conflict is a struggle between opposing forces. There are many examples of struggles...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
After the children have become alienated from T.J. who has spitefully caused their mother her position as a teacher at the Great Faith Elementary and Secondary School, they are eager to work in...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Very early in Mildred D. Taylor’s novel of life in the post-Civil War American South, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, told from the perspective of a young African-American girl, Cassie Logan, the...