Importance Of Setting In Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

In the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the setting has affected the story and the character in many ways. Since the setting is only 60 years after slavery was demolished, black people were still treated differently than whites. There was a law called the Plessy v.s. Ferguson, “Separate but Equal” that the white people made. Since black people did not have any say in how well the law was carried out, white people prioritized the “separate” part instead of the equal.
When the black school was given books the teacher, Miss Crocker states, “Now we’re very fortunate to get these readers…” Since the superintendent didn’t ever give the black school books, Miss Crocker thought that the books were one of the greatest things that they could receive.

In the story, Cassie says that she can see that the covers of the book are a moltey red and they were badly worn. She is trying to say that the condition of the books is really bad since they are hand me downs from the white school. She explained that the book was marked with crayons and ink. They were nothing close to new since the white children had used them for many years and written on them and almost completely destroyed them to a point that they were falling apart. But apparently they were good enough for the poor black children that the state of Mississippi had no budget for. Since the law simply stated that the blacks and whites must be “Separate but Equal” that is all that the government would do for the blacks. Since there was no budget for black people to get new supplies and things that they needed Cassie’s mother said, “It will be easy enough for anyone to see whose responsibility it is, Daisy, by opening any seventh-grade book. Because tomorrow I’m going to ‘mess them up’ too.” Before that she goes on and

This caused a series of events to unfold in the story. One event was when T.J. announced, “I betcha I could give y’all an earful ‘bout that burnin’ last night.” White people didn’t like the Berrys or something that they had done so they burnt their house down. Since the whites had more power over the black people they were okay to burn down black people’s houses and nobody cared except for the black people. The black community would probably come and help the black people but the whites could care less about it. As long as they were getting their way they were completely fine. Black people were targeted by most white people in the south. With the great depression and the Plessy v.s. Ferguson law taking place there is no way that the whites were going to stop there. T.J. also announced, “Tarred and feathered him!” They tarred Mr.Tatum because he called Mr.Barnett a lier. Since black people had little to no power against white people they were tarred, feathered, called racial slurs, and hated upon. These events were all because of the great depression and people losing their