Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor

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Roll Of Thunder Hear My CryMildred Taylor

• By Ahmad Zaher

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• The characters of the story are the ones who have
  roles in the story.
• Without characters it is not a complete story.

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Characters

• Ms. Crocker

• T.J.
• Mary (mama)
• Big Ma
• Papa
• Mr. Morrison
• Uncle Hammer
• Mr. Barnett
• Ms. Barnett
• Mr. Ms. Avery
• Mr. Simms
• Lillian jeans
• Melvin
• R.W.
• Jeremy
• Cassie
• Stacey
• Little Man

• Christopher John

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3 points about 5 characters

• T.J. T.J. was a lonely kid who tried to fit in.
  T.J. abandoned his group of people because white
  people decided to treat him nicely. T.J. always
  wanted a pearl handed pistol.
• R.W. R.W. was one of the whites that were
  hanging out with T.J.. He is one Mr. Simms son.
  He is a very rich kid.
• Melvin Melvin and R.W. are brothers. He
  infiltrated Mr. Barnett's house. He was the other
  person who was with T.J..
• Jeremy Jeremy is also Mr. Simms son. He is nice
  to the blacks not like his family. Jeremy doesnt
  ride the school bus with the other whites because
  he thinks its not fair to the blacks.
• Mr. Morrison Mr. Morrison used to work with
  Papa. He got fired because he killed 2 whites. He
  and the Logan's kids slammed Kalleb Wallace's
  house.

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Setting/time

• The setting is where the story took place. The
  time of the story is when the story was made.
• The setting took place in Mississippi U.S.A. .
• The time this book was made was in the 1930s.

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Plot/Events

• The plots of the story were when T.J. died.
  Another plot was when the Wallace's shot papas
  leg. Another was when papa made the fire to stop
  the fighting.

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Conflict/problem

• The conflict/problem was the whites always
  discriminated the blacks and made fun of them. So
  then some of the blacks wanted to fight with the
  whites, and then it be a conflict. Then the Logan
  kids dug a ditch and got revenge on the whites by
  making their school bus fall in the ditch. The
  problem was that T.J. died because the Simms's
  kids (R.W., Melvin) stole a Pearl handed pistol
  from Mr. Barnett, when T.J. was with them and
  then they blamed it on T.J.

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Solution

• The solution was when papa started the fire to
  stop them from fighting. When he started the fire
  everyone stopped doing what they were doing. Then
  they all started helping each other to put out
  the fire. This is the solution to the book.

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Protagonist

• The protagonist is the hero of the or saver. I
  think the protagonist in my point of view in the
  story Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry is Mr.
  Logan. The reason is because he sacrificed his
  own land to save T.J.. He also made everyone stop
  what they were doing to put out the fire. The
  white people were helping the blacks to put out
  the fire and they probably didnt even realize
  it.

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Antagonist

• The antagonist of the story is the evil person or
  the bad guy. In my point of view I think the
  antagonist in the story Roll Of Thunder hear My
  Cry are R.W, Melvin, Mr. Barnett (mercantile).
  R.W. and Melvin are mostly antagonists because
  R.W, Melvin and T.J. stole from Mr. Barnett
  store. After they stole from his shop they blamed
  it on T.J. so then T.J. had to pay the price. I
  think Harlan Granger is also the antagonist
  because he tried anything to take away the land
  from the Logans. He would threaten them by
  telling them that if the Logans didnt give him
  the land they would have to give him 50 of the
  cotton.

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Theme

• The main purpose of this book was to show us the
  way people (blacks) used to live. It was to show
  us how people disobeyed Allahs rule about how
  people had levels. They used to level people by
  making one person more important than the other.
  For example when they were in strawberry, T.J.
  gave them the list and Mr. Barnett ignored them
  and did the white girls order.

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