1. The setting for the short novel, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, is in the state of Mississippi, in the early 1930’s, which means that it is right during the middle of the Great Depression. I believe the setting is very important to the book because in Mississippi during those times there was a lot of racism and racial segregation, the African Americans people could not do the same things that Caucasian, white people could do. Also the setting is important because if they author had put the book set in a place like New York City the racism would not be the same as if she set the book in a place like Mississippi or really anywhere in the South. In addition the setting is important because if it had been set in the …show more content…
First of all the thing that T.J. did was that he robbed a store in Strawberry, even though he did not know he was going to rob the store, her thought that Melvin and R. W. were going to buy him the pearl handled pistol he had been wanting. More over the punishment I think he deserves are not as severe as the ones that the lynching mob gave him. Rather I think that he should still get in trouble, but I don’t think he should be killed or lynched, because that is too severe, maybe he should be grounded as in go to school work on the farm, then go home and not leave. I don’t think that the police should do anything because he did not plan to rob that store; he was just going in to the store thinking that he was going to get a gun. More over I think that the Simms boys should be punished more than T.J. because they are really the one’s who robbed that store and not really T.J. Even though I don’t think that that will happen because they are white kids, I still believe that should happen because that is fair and just, even though the world is not always fair. What's more another thing that T.J. was that he told the Logan family that they were going to be attacked by the lynching squad, so at least he warned