Racism and Friendship in Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
The novel roll of Thunder hear my cry is about racism and friendship. Most people don't know who to trust and who not to trust. The novel by Mildred Taylor follows the life of Stacey, Cassie,Christopher John, Littleman, TJ, the Sims, Papa, Mamma and Big Ma in their struggle against racism. They believe that all people no matter whether what colour their skin is should be equal.
I will be following the life of Stacey and his family. I will also consider how Stacey grows up in the novel Roll of Thunder hear my cry and examine Stacey and his family and friends. The small area of land that the logan's own, half of it is on mortgage that will have to be paid up soon. Most black people in Mississippi during the 1930's were very poor. They did not own their own land and they were 'sharecroppers'. This meant they had to work on the farms owned by the white people just to survive. The white people did not pay the black workers very much money. They had enough to survive but little else.
Stacy's best friend is called TJ. When TJ cheated at school in the exam it was Stacey who took the blame. Stacey was walking to school with Little Man, Cassie, Christopher and John. Little man was lagging behind worried about his shoes and his trousers getting dirty. When Stacy got to school, Mama tells the class that there is a test on today. Of course TJ knew that there was a test on today because he had stolen the answer sheet. During the test TJ was copying from the answer paper to the test paper. Mama asked TJ what he was doing, so TJ quickly passed the answer sheet over to Stacey and it was Stacy that took the blame for stealing the answer paper. Mama flipped when she saw Stacey with the answer paper. Mama wiped Stacey. Stacey begged Mama not to hit her. Still very angry because of what TJ had done, after school Stacey followed TJ to the Wallace store where they started fighting. Mr. Morrison came along and broke up the fight before anyone was hurt.
This tells us that Stacey is tough and a good friend willing to stand up for other people even if it means getting into trouble himself.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a movie based on the book by Mildred D. Taylor. It was released on June 2,1978 and has a runtime of an hour and 35 minutes. The target audience of this movie is mainly children and families, especially for those who have strong feelings about racism and injustice. In the movie, Cassie is the narrator and wants everyone to be treated fairly, even though she doesn’t yet understand the society that she lives in. Her brother, Stacey is gullible, but has a good heart and wants to do the right thing. The movie centers around the Logans, who are a determined family fighting for their rights. I believe the book is better than the movie because it describes all the events in much more detail than those pictured in the movie.
have quite a few differences, for example, T.J. is not very responsible, and Stacey doesn't cheat on tests. In Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, at the end of the school year, when they begin to take Final Exams, T.J. uses cheat notes, and when he is caught, Mama fails him, again (T.J. had already failed Mama's class the previous year). T.J. isn't happy that he failed the class again, so he goes to the Wallace Store and tells Kaleb Wallace and Harlan Granger that Mama is an awful teacher. Stacey wouldn't have done this, he wouldn't have cheated, and he wouldn't have told Mr. Wallace or Mr. Granger. When the end of the year comes Stacey, from Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, wouldn't have tried to cheat on the Finals, because he had studied, unlike T.J. Stacey and wouldn't have tried to cheat on the Final, because he had spent the time to study for it, which T.J. should have. Stacey is very different from T.J., two characters from Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, because T.J. is very irresponsible, and Stacey does not cheat on
(Taylor, 248). T.J. really wanted help because he pleaded, Stacey had a choice: either to help him or leave him. Stacey is a great friend to T.J. and helps him get home, but he could have easily left him in the dust for all the things T.J. has done to his family, like getting Mama fired. When Stacey helped his siblings get back on the Jefferson Davis school bus, get in trouble for the cheat notes, and take T.J. home when he was injured, he was showing courage. He stood up for his family and friends, he went through a lot to help them, even though he could get in trouble.
The stories that the author told were very insightful to what life was like for an African American living in the south during this time period. First the author pointed out how differently blacks and whites lived. She stated “They owned the whole damn town. The majority of whites had it made in the shade. Living on easy street, they inhabited grand houses ranging from turn-of-the-century clapboards to historics”(pg 35). The blacks in the town didn’t live in these grand homes, they worked in them. Even in today’s time I can drive around, and look at the differences between the living conditions in the areas that are dominated by whites, and the areas that are dominated by blacks. Racial inequalities are still very prevalent In today’s society.
It takes courage to stand up for your convictions, especially if you know there will be consequences. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a novel by Mildred D. Taylor tells the story of a young girl named Cassie Logan. Cassie is a girl in 1933 who stands up for the rights of her family and friends. She proves her courage by standing up for her brother, Little Man, getting revenge on the bus full of white children, and standing up against Lillian Jean Simms. Cassie follows through with her convictions, knowing there may be consequences.
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