Racism In Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry

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In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Cassie experiences extreme racism in her trip to Strawberry, which shocks a young Cassie as she has not experienced such discrimination yet in her life. Already heated from Mr. Barnett calling her a “n***er” (Taylor, 111) Cassie runs into Lillian Jean, a white girl from a racist family, who becomes infuriated and forces Cassie to step into the street apologizing. Mr. Simms then forcefully grabs her and throws young Cassie into the road, “someone caught [my arm] from behind, painfully twisting it and shoved me off the sidewalk into the road”, (Taylor, 114). Already haunted by a word no one should be called, Cassie just wishes to escape out of her anger. But when Lillian