Study Guide ||| WEEK – 17 |||
WITNESS, HISTORY & ACTIVISM
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Mildred D. Taylor’s historical story of
racism and struggle in 1930s Mississippi, Roll of Thunder, Hear
My Cry, has been praised for its potential to raise
young people’s consciousness about social injustice.
Activity 4.17/ P.175: Creating a realistic historical context
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How
dose Taylor’s realistic style fulfil her pedagogic purposes?
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Focusing in
Tylor's realist techniques
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Authenticity of
place, character and historical period.
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Realism has an important function in relation to Taylor’s pedagogic purposes. She
wanted to provide contemporary child readers in 1970s with convincing vicarious
experience of 1930s Mississippi, in order to understand the impact of the social injustices
experienced by black people. Every realistically presented incident
simultaneously builds a picture of children’s lives and
is a vehicle for conveying the nature and effects of
racism.
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Taylor uses following techniques to create an identifiable social
and historical context:
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Detailed
description of place and weather, activities and events.
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Poetic language
describing place and weather.
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The naming of
specific places, characters and events.
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Indications of
passage of time and of a precise historical time period.
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Passages of
direct speech including phonetic spelling and colloquial grammar
These
are all techniques employed to create the illusion of a real world and convey
authentic representation of a specific period in history.
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The depiction of warm,
intimate family life throws into stark relief the dangers from night riders in
dark, wet, muddy world outside that is described later.
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Taylor’s juxtaposition of
realistically presented, secure,
loving family scenes inside home with accounts of danger and violence that threaten to destroy them
intensifies effects on the reader of each of these contrasting aspects of Cassie’s experience.
Activity 4.18/ P.176: the
struggle against the injustice
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