Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry (Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor)

Member Name: hayley

Product:	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
Date:	21/07/00 (245 review reads)
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Advantages: Deals sensitively and well with issues of racism

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'Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry' deals with issues of racism from the opposite angle to 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. Mildred Taylor tells of the racist attitudes of a community from the eyes of a black child as opposed to the eyes of a white child. The book is moving and well paced and shocking as we learn of racism as short a time ago as the beginning of the 20th century.

'Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry' is a momentous novel as it deals with racism in the format of a children's book, which won it much acclaim. I would highly recommend the novel to adults and children.

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