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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
They don't join in the plan because Mr. Granger and others retaliate against them. Papa decides that he's going to boycott the Wallace Store, which is seated on Granger Land. This turns two of the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Every day, Jeremy walks to school with the Logans. Jeremy is white, while the Logans are black. At this time, that means that Jeremy could ride the bus to school, but the Logans would have to...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The wonderfully-named Mr. Morrison is looking for a job because he just got fired from his last one. And the reason he got fired is because he got into a fight with some of his co-workers. But as...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The incident involving the bus takes place when the Logan children have tired of being splashed with mud by the bus that the white children take to school every day. While the white children ride...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In literature, personification means attributing human characteristics to objects and animals. Mildred D. Taylor uses the technique throughout her novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, but is appears...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
T.J. gets so upset with Mrs. Logan because she catches him cheating. T.J. has been trying all year to find her test questions ahead of time so that he can cheat. He has already nearly been caught...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In chapter two of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Cassie Logan describes how she was at church when Mrs. Silas Lanier told her mother that a young man called John Henry Berry had died the previous...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
A great example of Cassie's bravery comes when she challenges Miss Crocker about the quality of the school books the class has been given. The books are almost ancient: dirty, tatty, and dog-eared,...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Uncle Hammer got his leg blown off in the First World War. Like a lot of African Americans, Uncle Hammer believed that by fighting in the War, he could prove to the white men that black people were...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In chapter 12 of Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the Logan family faces many obstacles and challenges due to the racism of their white neighbors. The Logan childrens’ friend,...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Thunder and inclement weather does play a part in the story. Making a plea, a cry, to the heavens during a particularly heavy storm may seem to put the person even closer to their God.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mr. Avery pays a visit to the Logan family and informs them that, "They's ridin' t'night." Mr. Avery is referring to the night men, a group of white men that harass...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor’s novel about growing up in 1930s Mississippi centers on Cassie Logan, an African-American girl who is nine years old during most of the novel’s action. Not only is Cassie...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
This is the scene in chapter 5 when T. J., Stacey, and Cassie head off to the grocery store while Big Ma's visiting the offices of Mr. Jamison. Despite being first in line to be served, the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In chapter seven, it is Christmas Eve, and part of the festivities include sharing family stories and reminiscing about the past. While most of the stories are fun, Mr. Morrison tells a different...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mama covers over offensive notations in her class's texts so that her students do not have to be humiliated by seeing them everyday. In Mama's seventh-grade's class textbooks, as there are in all...
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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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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
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
The sharecroppers in the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, have several reasons for not wanting to shop in Vicksburg. Despite the "low-down" Wallace's hatred of blacks, "it ain't easy jus' to...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mama takes her children to see the Berrys because she wants to impress upon them just how dangerous the world in which they live is for African Americans. Mr. Berry lies in bed in agony, horribly...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the author doesn't give the reader any physical description of Harlan Granger other than to indicate that he's a white man. One could argue that Mildred Taylor...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Each character in the story had their own unique character traits. Cassie had a temper and a clearly developed sense of fair play. At her age, her parents had sheltered her as much as possible from...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mr. Jamison warns the Logans that if they boycott the store, Harlan Granger will lose money because of his percentage of the profits. The Logans disagree with the way the Wallaces treat black...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Cassie received several big disappointments when she first visited the town of Strawberry in the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Living in a very rural area, Cassie was expecting great things...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mama is awaiting the return of Stacey, Papa, and Mr. Morrison from their trip to Vicksburg. When they finally arrive, Mr. Morrison is carrying Papa. Papa's head is bandaged, and his shotgun is...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Cassie thinks that Papa doesn’t leave to go to the railroad again because he is waiting for something, and he says he doesn’t think the trouble is over. In this section of the book, the racial...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Chapter One of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry has much the same import as do all beginning chapters of novels: It introduces the characters and the setting to the readers, and at least one of the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mr. Morrison is basically the Logan family bodyguard. He is brought in by Cassie’s father to protect the family during the racial conflict. Mr. Morrison is a strong, honest man. He explains to...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
I would want to argue that one of the central themes of this powerful story is the value and pride with which the Logans look after their own land and the sacrifices that they are willing to make...
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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 new books the school received were from the white school. The children are very excited to get new books, until they realize that they are torn and dirty. It turns out that the new books are...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In addition to the two incidents of cheating in school, several other scenes give us a good idea about the character of T. J. Avery in Mildred Taylor's novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. T. J. is...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
More importantly, the huge L. T. Morrison joins the Logan family as a protective male presence in Mildred Taylor's novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Morrison has lost his job with the railroad,...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
T.J. has a black eye because he got into a fight with Stacey. The blue-black shine that had so nicely encircled T.J.’s left eye for over a week had almost completely faded by the morning T.J....
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The text does not really specify the time that has elapsed since Mr. Berry was burned, but we can assume it has been a little while because Mrs. Berry states in chapter four that "the fire has...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mary and David Logan of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry are strong individuals who display great courage when they take action to fight racial injustice. (Chapter 1) At the school where Mrs. Logan...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
T.J. tells his mother that Claude wanted to go to the Wallace store, getting Claude in trouble instead of himself. Claude Avery is T.J.’s younger brother. Claude got in trouble for going to Mr....
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
"Roll of Thunder" was written by Milldred D. Taylor. She states in the introduction that the reason for writing the book was, in someway, to honor her father. She wanted to tell the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor is set in the American South in 1934 and 1935. Through stories told by the main character, Cassie Logan, and her two brothers, Stacey, who is...
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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
The exposition of a literary work, which occurs at the beginning, introduces the setting, the characters, and the basic situation. In other words, it is much like what the audience views at a...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
T.J. says that Cassie was Uncle Tomming Lillian Jean because she acted overly eager to be nice to her. Cassie’s family has taught her that she needs to be nice to Lillian Jean and treat her with...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The conflict in the novel is primarily racial. Even though the text begins much later, it has it's roots with the Logan's acquisition of part of Mr. Granger's land which he had to sell during...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The characters of Mildred Taylor's novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, are motivated by different factors. CASSIE LOGAN. Hot-tempered Cassie is often motivated by an urge to avenge wrongs done to...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Aside from his bragging, Cassie doesn't care much for T. J. since he made up lies about her mother after failing a test in her class. T. J. spread untruths about Mary throughout the town, blaming...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor’s 1976 novel of nine-year-old Cassie Logan and her family, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, takes place during the Great Depression that began in 1929 and extended well into the...
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In 1977, Mildred Taylor's Rolling Thunder, Hear My Cry won the Newberry Medal, an award given to a work of American literature written for children that is original in its text and marked by...
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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...
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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....
