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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

The book Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry mainly deals with the struggles of one family trying to deal with racism and the effects it has on them and their lives. This is important to black people because it was not to long ago that slavery was ended. Racism in this book affects the characters because they didn’t try to stop the hatred that was going on in their community. It is also about the fact that laws were not followed as they are supposed to. This was done by not treating everyone the same. For example, when schoolbooks were given to the black community, they were books that the white kids destroyed and were to be discarded so they were given to the black kids.
There are several conflicts in this story. They are man vs. man, man vs. society, and man vs. nature. I will first talk about man vs. man, this happens when the two white boys fought T.J. Avery and accused him of robbing a store. In man vs. society, the hatred that was happening in Mississippi at that time is proo...

Posted by: Quentina Green

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