Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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Summary: Gabby's Review
Review: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry was set in Mississippi in the 1930's during depression and racism. Cassie Logan tells the story about their survival in Mississippi. The Logan family are the only blacks that have their own land. Mr. Logan works at the railroad and Mrs. Logan teaches at Great Faith Elementary. Cassie and her brothers attend the same school where their mother works. Mr. and Mrs. Logan starts a boycott in their neighborhood to stop people from shopping at the Wallace store. The Logans feelthe lynching would stop in their neighborhood. Because of the boycott Mrs. Logan loses her job and Mr. Logan is shot in his head. The Wallace family did everything they could to stop the boycott but it did not scare the Logans. Despite it all, the Logans still play a big part in their neighborhood to help others anyway they could.
Reading this novel makes me think. People went through a lot of things just to keep their homes and their jobs. I could relate to T.J., He did a lot of things that he did not want to do but he wanted to fit in with the crowd. TJ wanted to be much older than he was. I know rushing to be an adult can have a big effect on your life. Being with the wrong crowd caused TJ a lot of problems as it did me. I fixed my problem by going back to school, but for TJ it isn't that simple.
Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry was a good book. This novel helps readers see how the Depression really was. The Logans were a strong African American family. No matter what the opposite race did to them to make them sell their land or to stop the boycott, the Logan still stayed on top. Mr. And Mrs. Logan taught their kids great values and did their best to explain why things were the way they were. I cried for T.J. at the end of story wondering what would really happen to him.
I would recommend for others to read this book. I feel that any mature age group would enjoy this book.

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Summary: Best Book
Review: It made an impact on my knowledge of African Americans and how they endured prejudice just because of their skin color and/or being poor. It's been years since I read the book but I still remember it. I recommend it to anyone who is mature enough to read it.

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Summary: Superb Book
Review: Cassie narrorates the story, and her and her family deal with tough times.

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Summary: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and excellent book!
Review: This book is a wonderfully detailed story of an African-American family during the most turbulant years of racism. They live in Mississippi, and their father works at the railroad and their mother is a teacher. The four childeren are Stacey, the oldest boy, then Cassie, Christopher-John, and Little Man. It is mainly Cassie telling the story, the strong-willed young daughter who doesn't yet understand the extremes of racism and has to learn in the turbulant year. Big Ma, the grandmother who also lives with them, helps her understand through the story. There are many thrilling parts, and sad parts, but the epic story is realistic with few dry spots. It has an ending so powerful, it shows how it was to grow up so quickly by learing about the dangers of racism.

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Summary: Roll of Thunder, a good book?
Review: Reading the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor gave me an entirely new outlook on the racism in the south during the thirties. The book is written from the perspective of Cassie Logan who lives with her family in the deep south on a cotton farm. She is the only daughter in her family living with three brothers. Her mother and grandmother take care of the family all year round while her father leaves to work on the railroad in order to pay the taxes on the property and the mortgage for the land. Cassie and her two brothers go to great faith elementary school where their mother teaches. The Logan family's main source of problems is the racism that goes on all around them.
The Logan's are one of the few black families that own their land in the area. This offends the racist white families of the area and fuels the racism against the family. When two of the boys in the neighboring Berry family get accused of harassing some white girls in the area it sparks a brutal attack. The "night men" that plague the honest black families come to the Berry's house and burn the two boys and their father with kerosene. After this horrendous act the family decides to boycott the Wallace's store because they were the white family behind the burning. By getting most of the black families to do their shopping in Vicksburg they hurt the Wallace's store. Because of this boycott lots of bad feelings get stirred up in the community and Harlan Granger (a white community leader) decides to make it as hard as possible on the Logan's.
The family with some help from Cassie's uncle Hammer pays all of their bills and overcomes the racism of the era. I am very impressed with pride and willpower of the black people living in the south at that time. Overcoming such adversary is not an easy accomplishment and I'm sure that the book is an equal representation of the time period. I can't imagine such ignorance occurring again but if it already happened in a so-called "civilized" time in our country then I guess anything could happen.
I enjoyed the characters and story in the book very much. It was an eye-opening story about what went on in the south. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a good story, meet some interesting characters, and witness the racism of the South first hand.

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Summary: An Exciting Story About Good Versus Bad
Review: 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry' deserves two thumbs up for an historical fiction account of the Logan Family. The Logan family is made up of Stacey, who is the caring older brother of Cassie, Christopher John, and Little Man. Mr. Logan works on the railroad and Mrs. Logan was a schoolteacher. The family also consists of the grandmother Big Ma and the guardian of the family, Mr. Morrison, because Mr. Logan is often away. The Logan's are one of the few black families in their deep south Mississippi settlement who own their own land.

The first half of the story depicts the everyday events and conflicts of the Logan children told from the standpoint of Cassie. Most of the conflicts deal with the actions between the whites and the blacks. One exterior conflict is when Mr. Simms, a white man, knocks down Cassie Logan. Mr. Simms pushed Cassie because she wouldn't move out of the way for Mr. Simms' daughter. Cassie cleverly gains her revenge on Mr. Simms' daughter by somewhat blackmailing her. One interior conflict in this story is when the Logan children cannot decide whether to tell their parents of the cunning trick they played that ended up causing damage to a school bus for the white public school.

The second part of the story tells of Stacey Logan's friend, T.J. Avery, and his poor choice of friends. T.J. is lured into being an acquaintance of R.W. and Melvin Simms, who are two bad white boys. T.J. thinks that they are being genuinely kind to him. They are really taking advantage of the fact that he is black. Having T.J. with them quite often helps the Simms' during the climax of the story. Saying anything more would be too much. This section also describes what the Logan Family and others think about T.J. and what he is doing. The story ends with an exciting amount of action and surprise.

I would recomend this book to any junior high student because of its action, events, and excitement. It is very interesting because of the setting, characters, and topic of the story. The book is also easy to understand because it comes from 4th graders perspective. It's a great read for any student.

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Summary: A book full of emotions.....read it...
Review: Cassie, one of David and Mary Logan's children, is trying to struggle with racism. But, she's not the only one struggling, all black people are. The white folks are always trying to get the blacks insulted or in trouble. Even the school books are once used by the whites, and they are now torned and tattered.

Cassie's older brother, Stacey, have a friend, T.J. After T.J. made their mother lose her job, no one wants to talk to him. He,then, decided to befriend with two boys who are white. They are sons of Mr Simms, who really hates black people.
Later, T.J. was caught stealing a pistol from Mr Barnett's shop. Mr Barnett is white. The riot between white and black began....
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Summary: Exciting story about a black family in 1930s Mississippi
Review: We read this book in English class this year. We went WAy into detail. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is about the Logan family. In the story, we learn of how they came into owing their 400 acres of land, and the problems that come with it. The narrator is nine year old Cassie, who dosen't understand why her black family isn't treated as well as her white neighbors.

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Summary: Jacqui and Amy's Roll of Thunder,Hear my Cry book review
Review: This book is about a black family living in the 1930's trying to keep their land while the white people try to take it away from them. The book is narrated by one of the Logan children, Cassie. She is trying to understand throughout the book why it is so important for their family to own the land. The Logan family tries to fight against racism and they stand up to the white people. They try to fight for equality. Stacey, Cassie, Christopher John, Little Man, Big Ma, Mama and Papa make up the Logan family along with Mr. Morrison who Papa brought to protect the family. They have to fight against the lynching mobs, the Grangers, and the Wallaces, who try to kill all of the black community and take away the Logan land.
Try to see where thunder is mentioned, and figure out why it is called Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry.

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Summary: Book Review
Review: The book is about the Logans struggling to keep their land in the 1930s. They are a close knit and strong black family. The main characters are Cassie, Stacey, Little Man, Christopher-John, and TJ. Of these kids, each experienced their own problems. Problems like racism and going into town getting made fun of because of the color of their skin. Out of all the kids, I liked Stacey the most.
I liked Stacey because I can relate to him. In the book Stacey, Cassie's older brother, and TJ, his best friend, would sometimes get into arguments. Whether they were friends or not, they would argue about cheating on tests, who knew more than the other, or about lying. This conflict reminds me of my best friend and me. I tell him certain things and he tells me certain things that don't work all the time. We yell at each other and don't speak at all for a while just because we were mad about something. The funny thing is, we still remain best friends.
As I read, the book made me feel as if I were really there. The beginning of the book described the road the kids walked to school on, the problem the rain caused, and the kid's personalities. The description of the confrontation between Cassie and her brothers and the racing school bus made me feel involved. If I were there I would have done the same thing as Stacey had done to the school bus. Another good part was when Hammer, the uncle, drove his nice car past the Wallaces, which meant to me that a colored man could have nice things too. The Wallaces, thought that Hammer was stirring up trouble and needed to be taught a lesson. The least interesting thing about the book was when the family went to Strawberry, a boring red-place of a town, which made the Logans feel unwanted. If I could change one thing, the story would be told from Stacey's point-of-view because he was older and did more things. He would go with his father to places that could give the story more adventure.
In all, I recommend this book for others to read. To understand how it was for black families to live and to survive back then is an important part of our culture. I would recommend this book to everyone.