Roll Of Thunder Description:
A young girl named Cassie and all the blacks like her, has to face the horrible racism back in 1930's. Cassie lives in the rural area of Mississippi where she spends long days working at home with Big Ma and attends a "blacks only school." She is very fed up with the way society was set up back then. Like how all the whites got the power and blacks were just treated as nothing. Cassie has to face many changes being born back with her three brother. For that, she and her family and friends are greatly judged and used throughout the book. Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry shows how life was like was then being black. Roll of Thunder shows and tells the story typical black family being discriminated life back then.