Summary Of The Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry

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In ancient times women's rights varied from one century to another where females exposed to many changes over time, where some consensus emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries designed for women's freedom and attempted to share the women in several areas of work. But, all the attempts failed because the prevention of exit and participation of women in working life as well as inhibition of Education which leads to exposure of female prey to ignorance and unawareness.
With the beginning of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, European Community granted women limited opportunities to contribute to the establishment of the community and work outside the walls of the houses.
By the end of the nineteenth century, women were having the ability to fight injustice, persecution and repression which they face by their community that surrounding them. With the advent of the British Cultural Revolution at that time, the role of women began to develop. Some
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The second example, which pays tribute to the role of motherhood, is the novel "The Roll of Thunder, hear my cry" for the African-American author Mildred D.Taylor. It won the Newbery Medal for children's literature and the book explains racism in South America, specifically in the state of Mississippi. Taylor tells the reader in her book a historical series for her family in Mississippi for slavery and injustice that inflicted upon them by the whites, as well as law in the United States in that time. She chose a little girl her name is Cassie Logan to tell us the details of the whole story.
Cassie tells the story of her family, her neighbors and her friends at her school with racism and brutal treatment of them by whites. In addition, the role of her parents and haw they deal with the harsh conditions. The role of her mother and grandmother was crystal clear more than the father "Mr. Logan" in many attitudes such

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