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    Book Report. The book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, was one of the first works of Mildred D. Taylor, who comes from people that suffered living in a racist culture, and used a series of books to illustrate this situation. The book was first published in 1976, but Taylor’s novel influenced American literature to the point that she won a Newbery Medal in 1977. Thus, creating an incentive for the creation of the sequels of this novel as Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Road to Memphis, and The Land

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    The book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, was one of the first works of Mildred D. Taylor, who comes from people that suffered living in a racist culture, and used a serie of books to illustrate this situation. The book was first published in 1976, but Taylor’s novel influenced American literature until the point that she won a Newbery Medal in 1977. Thus, creating an incentive for the creation of the sequels of this novel as Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Road to Memphis, and The Land. In the novel

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    suspense, adventures, and mysteries are my favored because they catch my attention and make me wonder what happens next. Two books that fit these qualities are Alan Gratz’s young adult novel “Code of Honor” and Mildred Taylor’s historical novel “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”. In the novel Code of Honor, Kamran Smith has it all; a beautiful girlfriend, he is his school’s football star and his best friend got them free tickets to the Super Bowl but his life takes a sharp turn for the worse. Kamran’s older

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    Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mama Logan is known for being protective and caring throughout the book, and she safeguards her loved ones in many instances. At the beginning of the book, Mildred Taylor wrote in depth about the Logan family’s first day of school. The school day began with Miss Crocker, Cassie’s teacher, introducing the fourth and first graders to the new school year. She mentioned some advanced varieties to the year, as the first graders would begin school, and the children would

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    Courage is when you stand for what's right even if people don’t like it or they think it's wrong. Throughout the book Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry. Mildred D. Taylor uses Cassie Logan as an example of a young girl that must stand up for her and her family and she must stand up for her convictions despite many people against her and her family. Cassie proved her courage by standing up for her brother Little Man when he didn’t want the book, Facing Lillian Jean Simms her rival, and willing to help

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    Courage is when you are willing to do something above your comfort zone to show what you’re made of. In a novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor uses an example of a young girl named Cassie Logan , who is colored, that must stand up for her convictions despite many injustices against her and her family. Cassie proves her courage by protecting her little brother Little Man from getting in big trouble, facing her white enemy Lillian Jean Simms, and being helpful to T.J despite his actions

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    racism in the American South, but there is one event that she would never forget. The day that Cassie Logan is made to apologize to Lillian Jean Simms for bumping into her is the event that had the greatest impact on her character. In the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the author Mildred Taylor uses a fourth grader to narrate the story and it shows how Cassie grows throughout it. Being only nine years old, Cassie is a very intelligent person that will speak her mind about what she thinks is right

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    Sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to, but it really takes courage to get through it. In the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Cassie Logan is a very sassy, outspoken eleven year old girl that, in my opinion, is the most courageous character throughout the novel. Some things that made Cassie courageous was that she stood up for Little Man, her little brother, at Great Faith Elementary School, stood up for her and Stacey, her older brother, at the mercantile, and

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    as deserving respect and approval, but how can you decide admirability just from reading a story? Between seventh grade books that show nothing but disrespect, to rotten little girls who pride themselves on being white, the biggest conflict in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry overall is racism and segregation. Many problems occurred which tested the mind and character of everyone in the story. Cassie Logan, throughout the book, handled these issues the best out of everyone. Although other characters may

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    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a wondrous book with many different characters that have their own unique traits. One of the characters in this book is Cassie, who is a nine-year-old girl living in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The trait that best describes her is being courageous. The denotative definition of courageous is. “Not deterred by danger or pain; brave.” Courageous is a quality portrayed by these three incidents throughout the story. One, the Barnett store in Strawberry, two

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