What is the importance of family in Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry?

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What is the importance of family in Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry

        Mildred Taylor has written Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry as a novel where the family are important to the story and the novels characters.

        Mama and Papa are very important to the novel because they bring up and guide the children to be respectful of other people even the white people. Mama and Papa teach the children by example, they do this by not shopping at the Wallaces store, and by covering their school books when they refuse to use them as they are in such poor condition. Mama and Papa do not shop at the Wallaces store because the owners are white, the main reason they do not there is because the Wallaces are the night men that kill and thearten any black people that step out of line in their eyes. In school Mama covers the school books because Cassie and Little Man do not want to accept them as they are hand downs from the White children.Mama “trimmed the paper to the size of the books and was now digging a gray looking glue from the brown bottle onto the inside cover of one of those books.”Mama covers up the front page so that the children do not have to see who the books have been handed from and in what race they were from.

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        Mama and Papa believe in firm discipline for the children and whip them if they behave badly.The children except that if they behave badly then they shall be whipped by their parents.Children just excepted their punshisment in the 1930’s  and did not hate their parents for whipping them.

        We see both Mama and Papa Logan listening and giving advice to their children. They care for about how their children are feeling and like to help them if they are in trouble. For example, when Jermery gives Stacey a flute at Christmas and Papa and advices him about relationships with white ...

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