Mildred D. Taylor's Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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All it takes is an angry mob of people to destroy ones life. In the story Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, a black family has to wrongfully face discrimination and unfairness everyday in small town Strawberry, Mississippi. One night, Papa is forced to make a life or death decision by starting a wildfire. The fire was started on his cotton field. This fire helped to prevent the hanging of three people, T.J., Mr. Morrison, and Papa. It is important to keep it a secret that he started the fire, or terrible things will happen to him. He was right to start the fire because it did the unthinkable at the time: he got the blacks and whites to work together. I think that Papa made the right choice by starting the fire because the

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