Mildred Taylor's "Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry": Hardships Of The Logan Family
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In Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry the Logans family is
faced with many different hardships, some more serious than other . The main
character Cassie lives with her Mom, Dad, Grandmother and three brothers. The
book mainly revolves around Cassie and the events that happen to her fa ....
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.... Mr. Granger
and the Wallaces didn't like the fact that the Logans owned the land and they
would try to do anything within their powers to take the land from them,
"because he's [Mr. Granger] one of those people who has to believe that white
people are better are better than black people to make himself feel big"(p.276).
When T.J., a friend of the family, gets into serious trouble with the
law, Cassie watches her family's strength defy Mississippi racism. "I cried for
T.J.for T.J. ....
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