Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Analysis

In March 1865 MLK said in Selma, Alabama “If you can’t vote, your not free”. What does he mean by this? The novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is about a black family during the great depression in the 30’s struggling through racism, injustice, and keeping something prideful to them, their own land. Set in a small town in Mississippi in the deep south, the Logan’s constantly have other neighboring white sharecropping families and plantation owners continuously criticizing them and have a tend to be racist and unjust to them on a daily basis, but can’t do anything about it because of the laws at the time that said white people could very well be racist as much as they want because people just didn’t care about black people. The struggles they

One example is the group of Mr. Morrison when it said in the novel that he had gone down to Strawberry to pay the mortgage for the land, he received a letter and gave it to the Logans and said they had to raise enough money in a week to pay the mortgage again, then Mama starts to worry that the unfairness from Mr. Granger has came very close to getting their land, but with the help of Uncle Hammer they get through it by selling some belongings that he cherished greatly. This is perseverance because of the fact that Harlan Granger is bloodthirsty to get their land back and has to cheat to do so which is pretty unfair because everyone knows cheaters never win and in this instance Mr. Granger fails to get the land from them. Also, rich people during the great depression who had recently owned land that was bought by blacks and now were taxing them much more and now were going to go in debt and lose their land because the crops they grew during the depression were worth pretty much

Morrison himself has done many courageous things like how he lost his job by fighting two white men who started the fight and practically destroying them and him getting blamed for the fight. Another way he showed courage is when he beat up the Wallaces . This is courage because of the way that he was trying to defend papa, he was beating up the wallaces by using himself rather than use his shotgun, and when he crushed the Wallaces he helped papa into the house and helped make his leg better. This was courageous because during the great depression Blacks were being treated very horribly by whites and were killed very often because of the things that they did to stand up for themselves, also they were segregated which made them even more worse than whites, and because of Jim crow laws blacks had a lot less rights and a hella lot more worse punishments all because they were black One more way he showed courage is when he stood up to the Wallaces when he didn’t have his shotgun and Kaleb Wallace had his gun which he was pointing his gun at him, but Kaleb got intimidated by Mr. Morrison and couldn’t shoot, then Mr. Morrison walked up to his car and looked around for a minute, walked back and we left. These are all signs of courage by Mr.Morrison who is by far one of the most courageous people in Roll of Thunder, Hear My