Symbolism In Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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A wise man by the name Martin Luther king Jr. once said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Everyone should, and needs to believe that a color of a skin simply shouldn’t justify if a person is good or bad. In “Roll Of Thunder, Hear my cry” Mildred D Taylor explains the story of the Logan Family, a family living in the 1930’s. Only one thing is different though. They Are African Americans living in the south. They are fortunate enough to own land, but the amount of battles they had to face to Earn it rightfully, is indescribable. Symbolism is used to grab the reader's attention and show the hardships that not only did the Logan's faced but many African American families had to go through on a daily.

Mildred D. Taylor uses Simile to stir character motivation grabbing the reader's attention. This is shown in multiple
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But it brought them closer as a family. Nothing could divide them from not only one another, but the land because they owned it rightfully , and they deserved it. This was described with symbolism and the fight that they a had to go through to grab the reader's attention. The town in “Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry” was nothing more than terrible. The conditions that people had to live in were not only just in this town for a couple of years but decades. Have you ever been called something just because of how you look or what religion you practice? What would this world have been if racism was a thing, would the millions of jews or salves changed this world and find a cure for something like cancer? Well we can't change the past, but we can change the future. Joining an organization for some people is hard enough, but what someone like you can do is just simply stop saying racist slurs. Because one person can make a big

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