Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Reader reviewed by Karlee, Liberty Twp, OH

Although I enjoyed the novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, I was unhappy about the movie version of the wonderful story of Cassie and her family.

The movie version of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry didnt show the climax between Lillian Jean and Cassie. In addition, they cut out the attack of the night men on Mr. Berry.

Because I think that the movie left out a lot of important events, I prefer the novel over the movie of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. If youre going to see the movie, make sure you read the novel first.

Reader reviewed by Andy

In language arts this year, we read Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and then watched the movie. They were booth good, but I enjoyed the book more. The movie skipped around and took some important event out.

For example, an important event that the movie skipped was the bus crash. Also, the fight between Lillian Jean and Cassie was not included in the movie. I was excited when I was about to watch the movie, but it turned out to be disappointing and I enjoyed the book more.

Reader reviewed by Melissa L.

            Cassie and her family go through many challenges to save their land and keep their family close. They must survive the treatment that the whites give them, and survive the fact that they get splashed every day by the white bus and walk the rest of the way covered in mud. They Finally got tired of it and tried to get revenge. They must use poor books that whites had used and the condition had slowly dropped from new to very poor. There are many events that could just doom them.

            I thought that this book was pretty good, but it was confusing. It was confusing because it just kept switching characters and there were just so many. Every time it introduced a new character, it was really only in dialogue. I could connect to it in many ways, but I thought that some of the events were long and took up too much space in the book. The book was interesting and pulled me in so that I felt like I was a character in it.

            I recommend this book to anyone who likes historical fiction and to learn how whites treated blacks. You would also like it if you wanted to learn about sad times.

Reader reviewed by Connor McMullen

This book contains many secrets and a surprising twist at the end. This book gave me great joy as Cassie and her three brothers are in the 1930s where the blacks and whites do not get along well. They are completely seperated. In this interesting story Cassie and her three brothers go through a series of unfortunate and fortunate events with many twists throughout the story. Although there are a few unanswered questions i recommend this book to all children.

Reader reviewed by Tanner

In this book a young girl, by the name of Cassie Logan has many adventures.At first she is being held down. She is black so she has to walk instead of riding on a bus. The white kids enjoy splashing her with mud,but she doesn't know there is many worse things to come.    

Reader reviewed by Riley/fFleming class

Roll of thunder, hear my cry is a great book with interesting new words that just want to make you open up a million dictionaries and look up all the interesting words in the book.The word I think is most interesting is the word clinged, I just love that word especailly loved how the author used the word.

Reader reviewed by Kasey Hall/ Mrs. Flemings Class

This book is a good book about a family in the great depression. At the end of the book you end up feel ing bad for the family because they go through a lot of thing that arent to good.

The characters are pretty cool because they all have a different personality.Little Man,(is a neat freak)Cassie,(shes stobbern)T.J.,(bad influence)

Reader reviewed by pecker

This book was about a girl named cassie. It was time when whit people could controll black people. Or the whites had there own bathroom or facility. And the blacks had there own facility. cassie has a very big problem whith lilian Jean.(a White)And her dad is trying to kill the black people or make them loos their jobs. Also cassie's family is strugling with Mr.Granger. He is trying to take cassies land. Then Mr.Lilian Jean's dad comes to tj's house and tries to kill him because he stole a gun. Then Mr. granger sais no and tells lilians dad that there was a fire heading this way. so they all go ant try and put the fire out. So then tj does not get killed.

Reader reviewed by Whitney, Liberty Twp OH

After reading the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, I would much rather recommend the movie because I really liked it and I understood the story more.

The movie was very detailed in its actions. For example, when T.J came to the Logans house hurt and desperate for help. I thought that this was detailed because T.Js character is very talented in acting.

Even though the movie was much more disorganized than the book, I still thought that it was very clear in its order. For example, when Cassie picks up Lillian Jeans books and apologizes to her for her actions in Strawberry, the movie skips straight to the scene in the school house.

I would recommend the movie to any one who has already read the book.

Reader reviewed by John

This book is about a girl named Casie in a little bit after the great depresion. Cassie has to get to school by walking and the whites bus always rolls right next to them eather getting dirt on her and her brothers when it is dry or water on them and when it is wet and since she is black she can't do anything about it. Also she lives on a farm so she has to help pick cotten. Then there are mean white people called the night men who beat up her friend T.J. then right before they killed T.J. her father set the cotten field on fire so they went to the cotten field so it would not burn down the forest.