Discuss the theme of family life in Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry.
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Discuss the theme of family life in Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry. Mildred Taylor writes about lots of families, some are successful and some are not. She writes about poverty families have to endure, discipline that they inflict on their children, loyalties, love and care. She contrasts poor families and rich families very well. She writes about poverty mainly in the black families although she does mention poverty in white families but very briefly. The Logan's are good disciplinarians and know when to discipline their children and when not to and when they have been promised a beating, they will get it. An example of this, is when the Logan children go to the Wallace's store. As they had been warned not to go there, they got their beating. Even if it was a little late in the coming. 'We should have known better.... Papa never forgot anything.' She writes the...

