What Is The Theme Of Slavery In Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry

The history of slavery in the United States of America really helps understand and analyze deeply the book, “Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry” by Mildred D. Taylor. The story explores the land of the southern part of the United States in the 1930’s. At this time, African American people were freed from slavery, but people with coloured skin were still tormented and persecuted. The story is centered in a family of African Americans. Cassie, the main character, who was only a little girl at the time, couldn’t understand the real meaning of racism. Later on, in the book she discovers the importance of it, equal human rights and also the importance of her family land.

It all starts when Cassie and her brothers, Stacey (the older one), Christopher John

Their family had very little and Cassie’s dad worked on the railroad. At the very beginning of the book, we can witness how different the lives of white people were, compared to the lives of the African Americans. The white kids had a school bus to go to school, while the African Americans had to walk all the way to their Church School. When the kids went to school, the teacher announces that they had books! When Little man, Cassie’s little brother, opens the book, he sees something that really got his attention. The book had a chart that described the condition of the book, the date where it was given to kids to use and the race of student. Little man got very mad because he saw that the book was used by white students when it was new, and now that the condition of the book was very bad they gave the books to them and also wrote “nigra" as their race. This shows how white people were always treated better and had better opportunities than the African Americans. Later in the book, when Papa comes back from work, he brings a man named Mr. Morrison. Mr. Morrison had gotten fired when

Barnett about what had happened, but Mr. Barnett kicked her out of the store. Later, when they all got out, Cassie accidentally bumped into Lillian Jean, a white girl. Lillian Jean’s father pushed Cassie off the street and forced her to apologize to his daughter. Later, when Big Ma came to see what was happening, she made Cassie apologize to Lillian Jean. This is how, Mildred D. Taylor makes us understand how black people couldn’t stand up for themselves because they would always lose. Later in the book, when T.J was no longer friends with Stacey because he had gotten Stacey’s mother fired from teaching at their school, T.J started becoming friends with the “Simms Brothers” (another white family), but these boys were using