The Great Depression: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

The Great Depression

The Great Depression started in 1929 and it lasted until 1939. By 1933m, thirteen to fifteen million people were not employed and 25 thousand banks had failed. It was a hard time for many countries like America, Europe other countries. The stock Market crashed, prices were too high and people started to stop buying things. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor emphasizes the dreadful experiences during the great depression because 13 to 15 million people unemployed, the stock market crashed, people started to stop buying things.

When the Great Depression started it lasted ten years and several people lost their jobs in that time period. The great depression affected America, Europe and many other countries,

even all around the world. The stock market crashed and the prices got to high. What happened was people stopped buying goods and it caused economic troubles all over the world.
Many people like farmers had lost their jobs. There was an estimate thirteen to fifteen million people that have lost their jobs. During that time there were less imported goods. When there is less imported goods people didn’t make money at all. That caused poverty and poverty means that there were many poor people.
The great depression relates to “Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry’ by mildred taylor is that the logans are poor and Cassie's mom lost her job as a teacher. Later on in the book it says that in the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry page 180 “on the last night of the revival the sky took on a strange yellowish cast. The air felt close, suffocating, and no wind stirred.” What this means is on the last night of the revival means on the last night of handing out meals to all of the poor, African American people. The great depression is related to Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry is many african american people were poor and the people were poor in Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry.
After twenty five thousand banks had failed thirteen to fifteen million people had lost their jobs. The stock market crashed and many people lost their money. There was economic troubles all around the world. People stopped buying things because the prices got to high. The great depression had caused many banks to fail, people lost jobs, there was economic troubles all around the world, and the prices got too high.