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Comparing The Protagonists In Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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In the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor the blacks are trying to fight prejudice. The Logan family are some of those blacks. The Logans’ have their own four hundred acres of land. They have to keep their cool while the whites treat them like rubble. The blacks can’t do anything because the policemen are white. Also, the whites have been burning and killing the blacks. In my literary opinion, Cassie is the protagonist in this novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

A protagonist is the main character. The story circles around this character’s experiences, and the reader is invited to see the world through their perspective. Cassie is having a hard time dealing with prejudice. I

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