Explore the ways in which Mildred Taylor presents life in rural Mississippi in Roll of Thunder
The book is set in 1930’s Mississippi, at a time when, although slavery had been abolished the white community are still clinging on to the idea that blacks are second-class citizens. ... Most if not all other children in the school are taught that things like stealing and intolerance are wrong but the Logans put these teachings into their everyday life. ... Mildred Taylor cleverly incorporates the use of dialect, which gives a realistic tone to the novel. ... ” Stacey runs off, not wanting to accept and believe what he has been told, and Cassie numbly realises that unlike a bad dream the last night the things that had happened wouldn’t go away and although she hadn’t liked TJ he had always been a part of her life and now he was gone and they would never see him again.