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Summary: Wonderful and Amazing
Review: The book, Roll of Thunder hear my Cry, is about a black family called the Logan's. The Logan family works hard to keep the small piece of farmland they own, but they endure many racial injustices. Cassie, one of the Logan daughters, takes a trip to the nearby town of Strawberry and is shocked by the hatred she is greeted with. Meanwhile, more serious problems are developing. The white Wallace boys burn some local black men, killing one, and so the Logan family begins a boycott on their store. Mama decides to take a tour of the local community and urge people not to purchase goods there. However, many families have nowhere else to shop. The Logan's offer to buy goods for them in Vicksburg. Meanwhile, Christmas comes, and both their Uncle Hammer and Papa come home to join the family. Uncle Hammer drives a shiny new car. When Harlan Granger comes to try to convince the Logan's to stop the boycott, Hammer and Papa are both defiant. However, Mama soon loses her teaching job, and other pressure is put on the Logan family. Papa's leg is broken during a violent attack he suffers while trying to make a trip to Vicksburg. Only the brute strength of L. T., a man Papa brings home to help work and defend the farm, drives away the attackers. Soon, Granger, forces the Logan's to pay up on a loan they once took out from the bank. Uncle Hammer has to sell his car in order to make the payment. When their eldest son is framed Papa and L. T. go to stop the killing that follows. Almost as soon as they leave, however, the cotton field catches fire, as if it was struck by lightning. The lynch mob and the local black farmers must band together in order to stop the fire. It turns out that Papa started the fire in order to stop the bloodshed.
I chose this book because the cover seemed interesting and the summaries I read were very intriguing. The cover has an African American family standing in front of a burning house. The reviews were also interesting. Most of them said that it was a great book which was very intriguing.
I did not like this book, however, because I felt it was a little boring. Sometimes, though, it was very captivating. Overall it wasn't too bad of a book and I would recommend it to those who are patient.
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Summary: This book was exciting!
Review: This book was great! It is filled with all kinds of adventures! Once you start reading this book you just cant stop. It is full of suspense. Cassie is telling her life when she was a girl. She makes you want to keep reading to find out what happens next. It also teaches you alot on how blacks were treated differently. It shows you how they went to different schools and the whites treated the blacks bad. So you see, I am recommending that you should read this book. It is really interesting and you learn alot from it too.
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Summary: Excellent! Don't leave this one on the shelf!
Review: In a word I can describe this book as amazing. This book is about the Logans-a Black family-living in Mississippi in the 1930's who overcome racial segregation and bias, struggle to stand up to their white neighbors, and fight to keep their land. The land is the center of the Logans love toward each other. Their land is what holds the family together and keeps them from spreading apart. The story is written in Cassie's-the main character-point of view and how she sees things. Taylor does a great job in maneuvering Cassie so she can overhear certain conversations that are important to the books development of the conflict, and the resolution. Throughout the novel the Logans go through a Bus accident, a little girl that finally gets her revenge, and a great sacrifice that no one will ever forget.
I was introduced to this book when it was assigned as a literature study in my English class. Though I, along with others, groaned when the assignment was made, I have greatly taken that moan back. Once I started, I couldn't stop. The author's supense, humor, setting, and a great use of southern dialect for the dialogue make this book a hard one to put down. Though I have only read this book once, I plan to read it many, many times in the future. Take my advice, this book is unbelivable. Don't let the dust gather on it too much longer; it deserves to be read and cherished.
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Summary: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Review: This book is a classic. This story portray's a realistic view of how the deep south Mississippi during the depression might be. The book really focuses on how close the family and how important owning their own land is. The main character, Cassie, is a very intriguing character. She is so couragous and proud. She dosn't fully understand the value of owning the land. This book looks at the different relationships with her family and her friends. The trials and tribulations that the family goes through being an African-American family in the south. Cassie dosn't understand why people in the world feel that they are superior to her and that she is inferior. She has to deal with this at school and she befriends a little white boy who also makes racest comments. Throughout the story she and her family really have to stick together to protect the land they own. They also have to help her deal with the racism that is happening all around her.
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Summary: ROLL OF THUNDER
Review: This book is about a girl named Cassie, and she has 3 brothers:Lil Man, Christopher-John, and Stacey. She lives with her 3 brothers,her parents, and her grandma(big ma).
One day, when they went to Strawberry, the man at the register waited on everybody exept for Cassie, her brothers, and T.J, because they are black. And when they were leaving, a white girl named Lillian Jean, bumped into Cassie. Then Lillian Jean's dad made Cassie say," I'm sorry 'Miz' Lillian Jean." Cassie was very upset.I thought Lillian should of apologize.
The whites have 2 buses and the blacks don't have any.I think they should have a bus too. And when the driver drives by Cassie her brothers and there friends, he splashes them with the mud and water.Will it stop?
Read the rest of the book to find out!This is a very good book you should read it!!
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Summary: Classic
Review: This book is a classic already.It talks about the struggle of a family surving the worst of times and trying to put together their on life for all of them to survive this evilness.The book is wonderful!Once you read you'll probably want to read the next one.This book is great and I would suggest it to anyone.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I had to read this book for school and when my teacher passed the books out I was one of the many of us that groaned. I used to think that all books we read at school were horrible! This book changed that. My teacher assigned us to read like the first three chapters. I started reading and I couldn't stop! I read the whole book in one night! This book is a page turner. This book was the first one that I read that illustrated the descrimination of the south from the perspective of a black person. I found this book intriguing and recommend it to anyone who likes a good book!
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Summary: a favorite from grade school
Review: I discovered this book in the school library back in the 1980s and read it over and over. Here is a realistic gripping tale of racism and segregation in the 1930s, told by the viewpoint of 9-year-old Cassie Logan.Over the course of a couple of years, you watch Cassie grow as she realizes the ugliness of the world around her. I especially admired her in the episode where she pretends to be a white girl's servant for a month to lull her into a false sense of security before beating her up. Cassie's family has their own farm, and it is quite an achievement, but they have a fragile hold on it as other forces threaten to take it away. In the racial climate of the day, losing the land would be tragic. Colorful characters dot the book and round out the story: Cassie's myriad brothers, her flashy Uncle Hammer, the kids' rascally friend TJ who takes his cockiness too far. This is a great book that every schoolkid should read, whether it is on the curriculum or not. It wasn't mandatory for me, but I am very glad I found it and read it.
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Summary: Wonderful teaching.
Review: How would you feel if you were black, and didn't know why whites were treating you badly? Cassie has her freedom on her family's land, but most whites push her around whenever they can. She goes through many experinces with racism. After their family tries to het the local families to change their ways, Cassie's family gets threatened. They have to live through it together without losing their land.
When I read this book, it made me realize that blacks never had, and have, it very good. It inspired me to think more about getting to be more friendly with people of other colors. One downfall of the book was that Taylor jumped around alot, in my opion. However I was really glad I read this book.
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Summary: Roll of Thunder
Review: This book was educational for me about black's history. It was Great literature, but it wasn't my style of book, I did however learn how blacks were treated in post-slavery South. I liked Stacey alot, Cassie Was an interesting character, I liked her because she was kind of a rebel. I would recommend this if you like serious literature.
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