How Mildred Taylor uses the Characters and Events to show the Prejudice

Mildred Taylor, the author of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry clearly depicts racism in her novel. She skilfully uses the characters and events in the novel to show prejudice in Mississippi in the 1930s, when the book was set. At the time Mississippi was renowned as unity of the worst states for racism. Taylor has created many situations in her novel were several of the characters argon victimize as well as discriminated against. doneout the novel white plurality form an irrational judgment on the gloomy race, innocent raft argon burnt and lynched. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry is a novel which ventures on how hatred, humiliation and degradation fill the gap between the two races that are separate from each other, the races of the black and white. Taylor uses one of the main characters in this novel, peacock flower Logan to show how racism impacted on their everyday lives. When Cassie goes to hemangioma simplex for the first time, she is put out of her comfort zone and into the re al world. Through these episodes Taylor shows us that Cassie had to grow up, and learn that being defensive can non unceasingly solve the problem. As Cassie angrily confronts Mr. Barnett as she has not been served, he angrily ?recoiled? and told her to get her ?little black self? away from the call to wait. As Mr. Barnett tries to get rid of Cassie he bellows, ?whose little nigra is this? leaving Cassie feeling ashamed and confused. Taylor uses this incident and characters to show that black people were considered, by several(prenominal), to be less important than whites, since Cassie had been time lag for nearly an hour. The language spoken by Mr. Barnett is strongly patronizing, and it expands the portrayal of racism. other point where Cassie is complete humiliated is when she bum... ...hool every day, whilst the white indoctrinate bus goes past and sprays them with red dust. This also shows segregation, whites and blacks had to be as farthermost apart as possible accord ing to the whites. In the novel we listen segregation many times when Big Ma parks the beach wagon the other side of the field, the different schools and different buses. Taylor does use strong and mesomorphic language through her characters and events to portray the racism. She also had a clear structure, some may find it confusing at times, but overall it does not affect how prejudice is portrayed as events follow each other. I think that the final message of the novel, perhaps, is that survival is possible, but that there are inevitable losses along the way, and that whatever race we are should not matter. Taylor uses memorable characters and big and small events to show prejudice in 1930?s Mississippi.