Identity Thrust in Mildred D.Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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The present thesis entitled “Identity Thrust in Taylor’s Roll of
Thunder, Hear My Cry” shows the racial injusticesand its resistance
in1930s post-slavery American society. It challenges American
hypocrisy. On the one hand legally blacks are free but on the other
hand suppression and domination loom everywhere over blacks. The
blacks are captivated by socio-economic chains of whites. Thewhites
never treat them as human beings. Domination is in market system,
service sector, education system and etc. The blacks are forced to live
according to the desire of whites. Some well educated andaware
black people are there in 1930s American society such as Logan
family. Theyhave their own land their through which they reject the
white monopoly and supremacy. In the novel,Roll of Thunder Hear
My Cry, almost all major black characters revolt,protest, reject and
resist against white domination and suppression.Logan children dig a
ditch to trap white school bus. Similarly, Logan family boycott the
Wallace store and Cassie beats white girl Lillian Jean.