Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

• Dana Benn

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Theme

• The importance of family
• Doing what you have to do
• Greed as a cause of hatred

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Characters

• Casey Logan
• Stacey Logan
• Christopher John Logan
• David Papa Logan
• Mary Mama Logan

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Setting

• The book itself takes place in 1933, during the
  Great Depression in the south.

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Plot

• Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry represents a South
  in which racist sentiments had tangible effects
  in the form of segregation, lynch mobs, and
  unfair distribution of resources. Mildred Taylor
  wrote Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" in the
  1970s, at the height of the Black Power movement
  and at the beginning of an increasing presence of
  African-American history in education

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Conflict

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry shows the conflict
  with discrimination and segregation.