What is the importance of family in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry?

Cassie is the main character in Mildred D. Taylor’s story “Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry”. She is a smart, curious 9 year old. As time goes on, Cassie and her family learns many lessons throughout the book. We can see her grow and get a better understanding of how black’s were treated during the 1930’s. Cassie has many racist moments that occur to her, angering her and her family. It is hard for her to realize that her family is more fortunate than many other black family’s. As time goes on, Cassie gets a better understand of segregation. Eventually during the book, Cassie realizes that having a place of one's own results in a feeling of security and pride.

“ Roll of thunder hear my cry “ is exciting and sad. There’s a lot of issues going on in the book.The characters run into some issues along the way and they go through hard times.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor, sets in Mississippi and starts off with Cassie and her brothers, Christopher-John, Stacey, and Little Man walking to school on their first day. Their friend Jeremy, who is white, joined them and would get beaten if he was seen walking with the Logan siblings. Though they still stick to be proud of who they are.

The Most Important Messages and Themes in the Novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

“‘Well maybe she couldn't help it, Cassie. Maybe she had to do it.’”(99) In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, we hear a story about the struggles of an African American family, the Logans. They live in the South in the 1930s, a time of extreme racism against blacks. They story is in the first person view of Cassie Logan, a young girl who hasn’t quite figured out racism and what it means at that time.

She was an extraordinary mother of three while at the same time a teacher, at a very difficult time in history. In Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, there were many admirable people, but this mother was the only one that stood out in particular. That person was Mama, a calm, reasoning person who was easily the most admirable person in the story.

Has greed ever caused you to feel hate towards another person? Greed is the theme for Roll of Thunder Hear, My Cry because it contained a lot of hatred derived from greed. Mr. Granger and the Wallaces hated the Logan family and those who boycotted the Wallace store because they were no longer gaining money from them. The Logan family and the people boycotting did so because they didn’t agree with what the Wallaces did towards African Americans; burning them alive and being part of the nightmen who did terrible things. The Wallaces were well supported by Harlan Granger. Harlan Granger has learned to resent the Logan family especially because they will not sell back his family's land whom sold it 50 years ago to the Logan family. The Wallaces and Mr. Granger get a huge amount of their income from the poor people who have to sharecrop on Granger land and get credit from the Wallace store whom are mostly African American and can’t find somewhere else to live. The theme of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is that greed is a cause of hatred which the author is trying to give to his readers.

Sometimes you have to have courage and stand for what you believe in. In Mildred Taylor’s book Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, she uses the character Cassie to do exactly that! Cassie is a brave young girl, with only brothers. Cassie had to show courage when she stood up for little man and when she beat Lillian Jean up!

Cassie is the main character in Mildred D. Taylor’s story “Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry”. She is a smart, curious 9 year old. As time goes on, Cassie and her family learn many lessons throughout the book. We can see her grow and get a better understanding of how blacks were treated during the 1930’s. Cassie has many racist moments that occur to her, angering her and her family. It is hard for her to realize that her family is more fortunate than many other black family’s. As time goes on, Cassie gets a better understand of segregation. Eventually, Cassie realizes that having a place of one's own results in a feeling of security and pride.

Courage is when you stand up for what think is wrong. In the book Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor uses Cassie as girl that doesn’t know what racism and has to stand up for herself in the Strawberry market. Cassie was courageous when she had stood up for Little Man, Facing Lillian Jean, and telling Mr. Burnett to work with them. Cassie’s actions show that she was a courageous girl who cares about her family, standed up for her brothers. During this time period whites and blacks were not equal, the whites thought they were better than the blacks.

Courage is not defined by age rather it is by your actions. During Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor has a girl named Cassie Logan, who had to stand up for her convictions during that time. Cassie shows courageous when she stood up for little Man when he asked for a new book. When she stood up for herself and took Lillian Jean in the woods. These are some things that show Cassie is courageous.

The blacks are like cheetahs ready to learn, but without feet because they had the ability to reach high standards, but didn’t have access to a bus to take the children to school that was miles away from their homes.In the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor, the Logan children have to go to school that is many miles away ,even so, they still go because there education matters most to them. In the b0ok Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Cassie states in chapter one that many kids droped out of scoll because of the time it took to get to school and that’s why the blacks needed the bus. The Logan children daily go to school and are usually very tired for the miles they just walked, suffering for the education they deserve. Just image that you were to walk several miles just for one school day, about six hours and you were to walk more miles back home, would you ever get tired or stressed.Buses should be for everyone, not leaving anyone out, because we are human after all and the blacks need transportation to school.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor is a novel set in 1933 when there was segregation, and it follows the Logan family. In this book, many difficult decisions were made because of values and beliefs. Some difficult choices that were made in this story were when Mama covered up the page in the school books, when Uncle Hammer sold his car, and when Papa burned the cotton.

In “Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry”, the Logan family is very successful compared to other black families. Not only do the mother and father have jobs, but they own a house. Owning a house was extremely rare for black families in that time period. I thought it was pretty interesting. Why is this so good? First, black families weren’t put in a good position to get a house, but they got one anyway. Second, not only do they have a house but they’re very financially stable. Finally, what they had compared to other families back then.

In Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, lot’s of people show courage, but the character that I picked is Papa. I picked Papa because I think he is very important in the book. I think that I will have the most fun writing about Papa showing courage than any other character because Papa shows a lot of it!