Discrimination In Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry

The fiction novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor does a phenomenal job portraying the discrimination felt by African-Americans around the 1930s and 40s in the southern Unites States (specifically Mississippi). The novel depicts this discrimination by illustrating the life of a young nine-year-old female African-American named Cassie Logan, and showing how she and her family must live. By using a first-person point of view to write the book, Mildred Taylor presents the opportunity to the reader to see social discrimination from a different viewpoint than is often portrayed. By reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, readers will easily sympathize with Cassie and the Logans, and will hold their breath

We ain’t gonna lose this land...trust me.” He says this in response to the mortgage on the land suddenly becoming due. Coincidentally, the mortgage had suddenly became due right after Mr. Morrison and Papa got into a skirmish with the Wallaces. This is Mr. Granger’s form of revenge. On page 233 Papa says, “He’s got to show us where we stand in the scheme of things. He’s got a powerful need to do that. Besides, he still wants this place.” Papa basically sums up how powerful white people feel threatened by land-owning African-American families, since their land symbolizes their independence. Papa knows that he must keep the land and he risks his own life to go pay the mortgage. This is shown on page 232 when Mama says “You want to be out on that road again in the middle of the night after what happened?...Don’t you understand I don’t want you dead?” Then, the next morning, Papa goes straight to Strawberry to pay the land’s mortgage. Papa isn’t the only person who makes huge sacrifices to maintain the Logans independence by paying for the land. On page 236, Uncle Hammer reveals that he sold his silver Packard to help pay for the land. He says he sold his car because, “What good’s a car? It can’t grow cotton. You can’t build a home on it. And you can’t raise four fine babies in it.” Uncle Hammer realizes that the land is so important in living an independent life, and he is willing to sell his most prized possession in order to keep it. The Logans made tremendous sacrifices, with either their most prized possessions and even their lives, to remain the proprietors of their