Roll of Thunder

Smith Leadership Fisk

Ms. Greenidge April 15, 2013

Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry By: Mildred D Taylor. The setting is in Mississippi during the Great depression. The plot of this story is the great depression, The Logans on the verge of losing their land, and dealing with segregation. The characters of this story is Big Ma , Cassie , Stacy , Mama , Little Man , Christopher – John, Papa , Granger , Uncle Hammer ,T.J, Miz Lillie Jean , Jeremy. The conflict of this story is person vs society, and person vs person.

I say roll of thunder would be historical fiction because the great depression was a part of history but just the story of it is fake. But why it would be historical fiction because it doesn’t tell what the great depression was it just gives you a feel of it. You don’t even know if this story about the Logans is true there is a 50, 50 chance of it being real. It could just be made up everyone in this story could be mad e up. And you don’t know if it is true or not so this why I say roll of thunder hear my cry would and should be called historical fiction.

The character I’m most likely to be like in this story has to be Cassie. I say this because in roll of thunder the book Cassie is always fighting for what she thinks is right. She wouldn’t let Miz Lillie Jean stand in her way because I wouldn’t let her either. She didn’t care who you where she demanded respect from everyone. Cassie had a very caring and loving family which I have to.

And I have to say Cassie was a little feisty and I’m just like that I may not show it all the time but I can be and this is why I think I’m like Cassie.

If I where teaching Roll of thunder hear my cry to the class room I would focus on what the great depression is. I say this because before Ms. Wine told us what apartheid and slavery was like I didn’t think the struggle was real but I would want to show my student that the struggle was real and I would show...