Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Mississippi Burning
Prejudice is just a word until a book or movie puts pictures in your mind. In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Mississippi Burning, there are several scenes that have an impact on me. Both stories tell how badly the black families of Mississippi were treated, and they show how they suffered through it and came out the other end with courage and honor. It also tells how unfair the white men were to the blacks, inside and outside of the courtroom. Prejudice is an ugly subject, and is still taught today. The horrible things that the white man did to the colored man make me realize how ignorance certainly is bliss.
In both Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Mississippi Burning, the black people were tortured and tormented for no reason other than that they were black. The black families in the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry live in constant fear of the nightriders. The nightriders would kill a man for looking at them the wrong way in those days. It is for this reason that the black people tried to have as little to do with the white men as possible. In the book, Papa tries to explain to Stacey why it's not such a good idea to get involved with Jeremy. "We Logans don't have much to do with the white folks. You know why?" Papa says, " `Cause white folks mean trouble" p. 158. In Mississippi Burning, the FBI agent Mr. Anderson tries to explain to his partner how prejudice the white men of Mississippi are. In this movie, the members of the Ku Klux Klan kill black men because they stepped out of line. When trying to explain this to his partner, Mr. Anderson tells him " Down here, things are different; here, they believe that some things are worth killing for." He also tells how thirty years ago, a black man could be hung for stealing a watermelon. After all the bad things that the white man did to the black man, I wouldn't be surprised if they still didn't forgive us.
When comparing the book and the movie, I can't help but notice the honor and confidence that the black people possess.
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. & nbsp; An important idea in the novel "Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry" written by Mildred D Taylor is racism.  ; This idea is important because it tells us how life was in the 1930s for a little black girl who matures with racial conflict around her. & nbsp; "Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry" is about a young, black girl, Cassie Logan, who tries to understand with her family, why the blacks are different to the whites. Cassie, the narrator, leads us through all the disaster and trouble that her and her family have been through in relation to the white folks in Mississippi. & nbsp; The first example that shows racial conflict between the blacks and whites is the Jefferson Davis School bus, which is full of white children. Blacks do not have a bus so Cassie and her brothers have to walk to school. However, each morning the children would be threatened by this bus, "a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire". This is surely because of racism. The whites in the bus seem to find it amusing with "laughing with faces" to see the black children run for their lives. & nbsp; Another example is the incident Cassie takes a trip to Strawberry to the market. There she is made to apologize to Lillian Jean Simms (a white girl) for bumping into her. Cassie does not like to get pushed around and she stands up for herself. She says, "I ain't nasty, and if you're so afraid of getting bumped, walk down there yourself" to Lillian Jean after she is told to "get down in the road".&nbs would do what they are told, but Cassie is strong and stubborn, and she refuses until her Big Ma tells her to apologize. & nbsp; Overall, life in the 1930s for the black people was very difficult as they were pressured and pushed around as if they were animals. With the temper, that Cassie has, she finds life unfair and still does not seem to understand "the way of things" between the black and white people until T.J (a black boy whom she does not like but was her brother's best friend) is going to be hanged for a crime he did not commit. Even though Cassie has now matured, she will still stay strong & nbsp;
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