Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Racism in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Let's discuss the racism in our novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor. Discuss at least 3 instances of racism in the book.

53 comments:

Anonymous said...

racism was shown when Little man and the other african americans where walking to school.The bus driver past by them and was going to splash them with a puddle of mud.The african americans jump to the side and got dirty.

Anonymous said...

when they first came back to school little man and cassie both had a book they didnt want because the cover said nigra very poor.the whites were very wrong for what they did. they wouldnt like it if they said something about them like that.

Anonymous said...

The logan family has faced racism when they were walking to school and the bus passed by and splashed dirty water on their clothes and as they leave they would call them niggers. Another way they faced racism is that when Cassie bumped a white girl she made Cassie apologize 3 times and made her get to her knees. They also humiliated Little man and Cassie because when their school got books for the first time Little man didn't want them because in the front cover it said niggers so he didn't accept them it made the teacher mad so they got a whooped for not accepting the books.

Anonymous said...

I think when the bus full of white kids splashed little man and the others it was wrong.Also when they were at Mr. Barnett's store and he put all of those white folks in front of Cassie and Stacey and he called Cassie the n word and kicked her out which was also wrong.Also when Lilian Jean bumped into Cassie and told Cassie to get off of the sidewalk.When Cassie refused, Lilian Jean's dad twisted Cassie's arm and threw her off of the sidewalk which even made me mad.

Anonymous said...

when t.j , stacey, and cassie went to the store, the man that waas serving them left t.j and went to go serve a white woman. what that mann did was not fair because thye were there before anyone else.

Anonymous said...

Another racism event was when Mr. Berry was flirting with a white women. Then Mr. Wallace had put Mr. Berry's body on fire.

Anonymous said...

there were many incedences that happen in the roll of thuder,hear my cry one was when cassie and her brothers went to the store when they came in they gave the man a list of things they needed that worked there and when everybody would come in that was white he filled there list out first so then he had cassie and her brothers waiting for a hour and the way cassie reacted i would have done the same everyone should be treated the same

Anonymous said...

i really think that this is a good book but the story is about racism between blacks and white and they are in segregation . and they get into it real easy like about the food market wen they waz getting somethings for mom

Anonymous said...

when stacey was walking the streets and a white girl bumbed in to her and she had to say sorry even though she didnt even dp nothing.

when stacey was in the store and gave the white man a list to fiil.when u he was almost finshed a white lady walk in he stopped there order and filled her and when stacey was trying to tell him that they were wainig for almost an hour he said look lil nigger youre going to wait still intil im done with the other order.

when the black kids cant ride the bus.and when they walk home the bus driver alwals hit a puddle of dirty water to get there clothes dirty

Anonymous said...

i think that the story roll of thunder hear my cry is really races because that is not how you treaded a child i think we are all the same person we deserve better than that i think that every body should be treaded the same as like white and black and other racism i think that we all deserve the same amount of respect that like other people do that is if we respect the same way that we whant them to respect us the same.

Anonymous said...

I think that racisim is bad and it should stop. Because it makes some people think that there supereor from others. But instead its making them look bad infront of people wich makes them judge them as a bad person.Like how the kids in the bus screaned at them some bad stuff because they were black.Or how the guy from the store didint attend them because this white girl showed up even though they were first he didint care.

Anonymous said...

Racism in roll of thunder,Hear my cry is not bad as today. Mr berry was trying to flirt white a white woman and he got burn just because he was black. Also in the book lil man, Cassie has to walk 3 hours to get to school and the white people don't the bus come and pick them up. When black people go to the store they have to pay more then white people do. I think thas so bad and bogus.

Anonymous said...

THE RACISM THAT IS GOING ON IN ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY IS THE AFRICAN AMERICANS CANNOT GET A BUS BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK AND ONLY THE WHITE KIDS CAN GET A BUS. BUT I DONT ITS FAIR BECAUSE ALL KIDS SHOULD BE ALOUD TO RIDE THE BUS BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL EQUAL.

Anonymous said...

one time that the logan family was treat with racism was when the logan kids were walking from school the white people on the bus wet then with mud

Anonymous said...

One Of The Events I Have Read About That There Was Racism Was When The Colored Kids Were Walking To School And The White Kids Were Also Going To School But On The Bus. The White Kids Were Laughing At Them And The Bus Splattered Mud All Over There Cloths.

Another Event Was When Little Man Got His Book.He Opened It And It Said That It Was Used By All White Children until it got old then they gave it to the colored children.

Anonymous said...

The first part was when the bus was splashing them with the a little puddle and calling them "mud eaters mud eaters". The second part was that Cassie,Stacey,and T.J was wating for T.J's order but the store keeper ignore them and was helping white people.The third part was that a white girl name Mis Lillian Jean bump Cassie and Lillian said to Cassie to appolygyes to her and she did but then Lillian said to go to the middle of the street but Cassie refuse to then Lillian's father came and push her out of the side walk.

Anonymous said...

the first thing that the logans familiy have seen racism is with the bus when they came they make longans to jump on a muddy place there shirt and pants were fill with mud which made little man so mad he grab a hand full of mud and try to trow it to the bus but he miss the second thing is when mr.berry was burn so bad it hard for him to do anything because they were talk with some white women the last thing they have racism is when is the cashier keep there wait when white came

Anonymous said...

IN the story a little black boy come in the store to get his mom some stuff to cook in a white man told him to wait because a white woman come in.

one day three white man come to mr berry house in sat them on fire but mr berry did not died but his nephew did.

Anonymous said...

IN ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY THE RACISM OF THAT BOOK IS THAT THE WHITE PEOPLE WERE CALLING THE LOGAN'S FAMILY(BLACK PEOPLE)NIGGERS .THEN THE LOGANS KIDS WANTED REVENGE FROM THE WHITE KIDS AND THE BUS DRIVER SO THEY MADE A WHOLE ON THE ROAD SO THE BUS COULD FALL.

Anonymous said...

i did not like when the little girl went to the store and they called her the n*word and i think this is very disrespectful to african americans.



there is another part where little man got thrown in the mud and it really hurt his feelings.




and 1 more where they had to go to seperate schools because of race

Anonymous said...

little man and his brothers and sisters were walking to school when the white kids bus had splash them on purpose.

When cassie was walking on the sidewalk she had bump a white little girl then she had told her to appoligize and walk in the street because you aren't good enough to walk on th sidewalk.

Anonymous said...

stacey and her brothers were walking to school. Black kids can't ride the school bus,only white kids can.the white kids called stacey and her brothers the "N" word.

Anonymous said...

the white person in the bus splash the african americans in the road.little man say bad word to the white bus

Anonymous said...

a incedence that happen was when cassie had to say sorry to liliy jean for something she didnt do. lilly jean said she bumped into her even though she didnt .cassie needs to be treated better she is just a child

Anonymous said...

you can be racism in many ways like in roll of thunder , hear my cry'

-when littel men and stacy and t.j where walking to go to school and when the bus pass and they star tealling things to littel men and stacy and t.j they star cursing at them and they got littel men clothes all dirty only becouse there were african americans


also when cassy bump in to lillian jean and they make a big deal only becouse she was african american they make cassy say sorry to lillian jean alot of times

Anonymous said...

WHEN THEY WALK TO TAKE THE BUS,THE BUS PASS ANDTHE BUS SPLASH THEM ALL OVER THEIR CLOTHES. MY COMENT IS THE THATS RACIMS BECAUSE THEY HEART THEIR FEELINGS.

Anonymous said...

The Logan family get treated wrong every mourning. Considering there black they couldnot get a bus to get to school, only the whites. And every time the bus come they try to hit the Logan family and get them off the road. And the Whites on the bus says mean things to them.




At the Wallace store they are very races there. They burned Mr Berry severly and Killed one of his nephews then burn the other one severly also. Now Mr. Berry doesnot even have a nose. And he doesnot wear clothes because it hurts him so bad. He only wears a sheet. The sad part about it to me is the the Wallace's thinks its funny and there laughing at them.



I found it races when Casie, Tj And Stacey was and the grocery store buying food for Stacey mother. And they told him what they needed help finding it and he started to help them, Then they was interupted by a White woman when she said the grocery store man her list. He left from them then went to help her. The was waiting for almost a hour. And when Casie ask him did he forget about them. He replied "who's Nigger is this."

Anonymous said...

The logan family had confronted racism in many different ways some are like this ones...

1) At the beggining of the story the students at little mans school recived new books. They never had books in the school they are in. The only problem was that the books were all written.They were also in a pretty bad condition.The worst part was that in the front cover there was racist words for the african americans...

2)Cassie was in a white store waiting for in the line to get her turn.But suddenly a group of people cut her line. The store man gave service to them and not to Cassie. Cassie got mad and gently told the storeman thet they were first in the line. the storeman started telling her stuff and racist words...

Anonymous said...

the fist rase thing when they had went to school the bus had spash water on them.the secone rase thing is when they had went in the store and they had gave barnet a list and white people had call him and he well liv them.when they had walk down and they had poued into her.

Anonymous said...

The Berries were burned alive by the walleces which were white.An other time was when Cassie went to the store.Mr.Barnett ignore her and her brother,but didn't ignore the white people that call him. Also when cassie was walking down the street.

Anonymous said...

A time when racism happend in roll of thunder hear my cry was when cassie and his brothers and sisters had to walk home from school. Everday day cassie and her family would get splashed by the white bus driver because they were black nad they didnt like them. Thats was a time when there was racism in roll of thunder hear my cry.

Anonymous said...

A time when there was racism in roll of thunder hear my cry was when little john was in school and he got a book from his white teacher. The white teacher gave him a book dats said he was african american and he was also poor. I felt as if little john was really getting treated poorly just because he was a black student.

Anonymous said...

Racism in Roll Of Thunder,Hear My Cry
shows that theirs many ways that showed racism.
of what i've read from the book. When black people went to the store i thought it was really racism because the whites were charging them what they havent bought.
AlsoThe Berries were burned alive by the walleces which were white.It shows racism because it tells me that they were burn because they were black.

Anonymous said...

A time when there was racism in roll of thunder hear my cry was when the black people would go to the wallaces store to by food. The wallaces would always charge the black npeople extra ebven though they would always bu the food no matter how much it would cost

Anonymous said...

The book, Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry,gives a good example of how racism affects people. No matter what race background people are from, their could be white, african american, hispanics....... People are miss judge just by first appearance. In roll of thunder hear my cry, CASSIE and her LIL MAN had a racism experience. The bus who only takes white kids to school, purposely splash muddy water on them. Both got so angry but decided to let it go. For the reason that they know it doesn't do any good to anybody.

Anonymous said...

In the novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Cassie gets discriminated when she goes to the store to get supplies and she gets cut off in line by white folks. She is furious and makes a big deal about it.The store owner calls her words that are to offensive to post

Anonymous said...

a time there was rascim in the book was when cassie went to strawberry and she had bumped into lillian jean by accident and lillian jean told her to say sorry and cassie didnt want to say sorry because she really bumped into her so since cassie didnt say sorry lillian jeans father pushed her off the side walk and told her she need to say sorry to his daughter and she had to call her miss instead of just lillian jean because she was black and lillian jean was white casssie didnt think that was fair to her so she felt bad that she had to say sorry to her for no reason at all and then she had to call her miss

Anonymous said...

IN THE BOOK ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY THE BERRIES WERE BURNED BY THE WALLACE'S WHICH THE BERRIES WERE BLACK AND THE WALLACE'S WERE WHITE. ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF RACISM IN THE NOVEL IS WHEN THE LOGAN KIDS WALKED TO SCHOOL AND THE BUS FULL OF WHITE KIDS RIDE BY AND LAUGHT AT THEM AND ASLO SPLASH DIRTY WATER ON THERE FRESH CLOTHES. MY FINAL EXAMPLE OF RACES IN THE NOVEL IS WHEN MR.BARNETT LET A WHITE GIRL GO BEFORE THE BLACK KIDS.

Anonymous said...

The Berries were burned alive by the wallece's which were white. The berry's family are black. Cassie, Lil Man, and Stacy walk every day to school and they walk 3 hours to get there.Whites have a bus that take them to school and when they see blacks persons walking, they splash them with mud.They tell them bad names that would ofend them.

Anonymous said...

Racism in roll of thunder hear my cry is very cruel.
why? just because the Logans are black they have to walk towards school but the worse is that every time the bus is driving/passing by they get splashed with mud. This gets Cassie ,little man ,stacey t.j., and
christopher john really mad any one would get mad too. Another one was when cassie bumped in to a white girl lillian jean by accident and lillian's jean father forced her to apologize by saying"IM SORRY MIZ LILLIAN JEAN"this was also racist because it was not cassie's fault but... she's black and she's got to get used to it.

Anonymous said...

In the book "Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry", Cassie and her brothers experience racism in many ways.In the begining of the book, Little Man notices that all the white people get the new books and that once they get old, they are given to them.
Another way in which the characters from the book experience racism is when Mr.Barry got burned. He was buned alive because they thought his nephew was flirting with a white woman.
In the book Cassie also experiences racism by being pushed by Lillian Jean, a white girl,and then expecting an apology from Cassie. This was very humiliating for Cassie.

Anonymous said...

racism in roll of thunder hear my cry effect the family of Cassie and the people around theme like Mr.Berry he got burn up really bad for flirting whit a woman and for the kids to see him all burn up that must be shocking to theme to see a man all burn also one time cassie was walking on the street and this white girl push her and big ma made her apoliges when she havent even push her it was the girl had pushed her actually in roll of thunder there is a lot of racism and until today there is still racism

Anonymous said...

racism in the book roll of thunder, hear me cry is really bad then today, for example mr.berry got really burn because they said he was flirting with a white women, but he was'nt it was just because he was black.also when lil man, cassie, stacey and christopher-john walk to school they always get dirty because the bus man .

Anonymous said...

Racism in Roll of thunder,hear my cry is not really bad the only thing that was really bad is when they burn Mr. Berry because Mr. Berry's nephew was flirting with a white women.
Also Cassie an his brothers have to walk to school because the bus wont take them because they are black an that is very bogus to let those children walk because the bus wont take them.
also what makes me really mad is that if black people want to shop in the store they need to pay more money.

Anonymous said...

racism in the story is when the berrys got burnt in the fire by the wallaces because one of the brothers was accused for trying to talk to a white women and he was black so they followed them to the house and they put stuff on them and burnt them up

Anonymous said...

in roll of thunder,hear my cry is that white and black people dont get along well because of racism.when the school bus was coming little man,cassie were walking until the bus splash them with water and white kid laugh and one white kid said the n word to cassie and little man.they were tired that the bus was getting them mud on there clothes.

Anonymous said...

in the book called roll of thunder hear my cry had alot of racim was going on because when black people shopped at the wallaces store they had to pay more then what they were supposed to because they were black and the wallaces were white. another reason why there was racim going on was because the white kids had a bus pick them up to go to school but the black kids had to walk the three hours to school.the tragedy that happened was because the barryes got burned because of trying to flirt with a white women.

Anonymous said...

On roll of thunder hear my cry a lot of racist incidents have happen. When the Logans walk to school,there's a white kids bus that comes by & splashes them with mud so they get to school with there clothes all dirty with mud. that doesn't seem fair.Another time was when Cassie was treated badly when she went to visit Strawberry for her first time. Mr.Barnett ignore her while she was waiting for him to finish with the white people.

Anonymous said...

cassie TJ stacey & Big Ma when't to straberry with big ma to go talk a man & to get grocerry at the barnett store cassie tj & stacy when't to get them Mr. Barnett told cassie to never come back when she came out miz lilean gean bumed into her Mr Barnettcame out & pushed on the ground

Anonymous said...

Cassie experienced racism twice in one day but the one i thought was the cruelist was when Lillianjean bumped into Cassie and made her apologize and when she did apologize she wantedher to get out into the street and make her apologize again just because she thought she was better.

Anonymous said...

Racism in the book of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry is that Lillian Jean was coming out of the strawberry store with her brothers and Cassie was walking and thinking about the way Mr. Berry insulted her by calling her a "n****r" and by accident Cassie bumped into Lillian Jean, she made Cassie apologize her self and since Cassie did not want to start any problems she did apologize, Lillian Jean told her to get in her knees and apologize in the road

Anonymous said...

a nother time there was racsim was when the bus driver kept splashing them when they was on their way to school the bus driver kept on everyday knowing that they didnt like it he just wanted to make the white kids laugh

Anonymous said...

Roll of a thunder is a book in which white people thought to be superior to african american people. This book shows an example of racist when the students that rode the bus called Little Man names because the bus had splashed mud at him. Also when Stacey,Cassie and T.J were waiting on Mr.Barnet and he attended all those people first bacause they were white. They waited for an hour that was racist. This event was not only racist but terrible Mr.Berry and his nephews were poured with kerosene and lit on fire. The Wallaces did this but nothing was done because the Wallaces are white and the Berry's are black. One of the nephews died and Mr.Berry and his other nephew were severely burned and disfigured.