Roll of thunder, hear my cry

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Diverse Cultures

For my diverse cultures essay, I will be studying and revising different factors of that time period and place for example the weather, the language, religion, politics, gender, lifestyle. The novel Roll of thunder, hear my cry is written by Mildred D. Taylor. This story was set in the 1930’s which is after the “depression,” were the whole of America went into a slump.

The novel is about a young, black girl who expresses and learns about the ways of life in the 1930’s. The novel was set in the 1930’s, which was during the time of, ‘The great depression’. It was set in the less prosperous part of America in Mississippi. This was a time and place when thousands of families like Cassie were poor and considered the’ lower, working-class’. As you go through the book, you find that Cassie discusses and questions certain issues; for example racism and growing-up.

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Generally people think that informal slang speech is wrong, but it is just an alternative version to the English language. The way a person speaks is often a way of revealing how educated a person may be. The general dialect spoken within a community is a part a community’s identity, for example; the “cockney” language represents the people of southeast England.

 In the novel the language spoken has a western style to it. The novel consists of two main styles of speech, but the communities speak the main style commonly. The language is the same as Standard English but ...

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