Summary Of Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Introduction: Students today lack the knowledge that reading provides. With technology, reading for fun has drastically decreased, and playing games on electronic devices has increased. American literature both fiction and non-fiction can teach vital lessons for students (Ryan 1). Fiction provides a fictitious story, with some life lessons throughout. Non-fiction uses a legitimate story to teach the reader a life lesson. Non-fiction can also be about a certain person’s life, and experiences. The book “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” is a fiction story about the Logan family, who lives rural Mississippi during the Great Depression. Night riders, burnings, and discrimination put the family to the test, but the possession of land provides them with the energy needed to fight back against all odds. THESIS
Biography:
Mildred Delois Taylor was born on September 13, 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi. She was born to Wilbert Lee
Within the book the Great Depression is not directly talked about, but the things happening in the book are accurate with the Great Depression era. The family lives near a two towns called Strawberry, and a little further away Vicksburg. The Logan family owns their own 200 acres of land, but are surrounded by white plantation owners that have sharecroppers living on them. The area in which the family lives is exact with Great Depression times. The sharecroppers cannot afford to shop where they want, they are forced to shop where they can get credit. The family land is burnt at the end in an attempt to save another family and Stacey. “Near the slope where once cotton stalks had stood, their brown bolls popping with tiny puffs of cotton, the land was charred, desolate, black, still steaming from the night.”(Taylor, 267). Papa made the decision to sacrifice their land and cotton crop. Everyone was safe after the night of the fire, but their lives and friends would forever be