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Summary: A Heart-breaking story
Review: The Road to Memphis By Mildred D. Taylor is about a seventeen-year-old girl named Cassie Logan and her friend Moe, Clarence, Jeremy, Harris, Sissy and, Little Willie and, her brother Stacey. The setting is during 1941 on the brink of World War II. Sissy is pregnant with Clarence's child. Cassie's life is dramatically changed when her friend Moe lashes out at his white tormentors. This is the conflict in this novel, which drives the plot. Because Jeremy is white and will not be suspected, he takes Moe to Jackson. Stacey, Little Willie, Clarence and, Cassie meet Moe in Jackson and accompany Moe on his way to Memphis. Clarence can't continue the trip due to his severe headaches so he must stay with Maylene, someone who they met along their way to Memphis. The trip is impacted when they arrive at the train station to bring Moe to Chicago and they are informed of the intrusion of World War II and Moe can't catch a train. They stay with an acquaintance named Solomon Bradley. Moe, a man who has unknown feelings for Cassie walks in right after Solomon embraces Cassie with a kiss and Moe sees the look on her face. Moe knows he must take action. ... The Road to Memphis is a dramatic and painful book.
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Summary: The Road to Memphis
Review: The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor uses the literary device of atmosphere very well. The mood of the story, which is dark and gloomy, is perfect for the book because it helps depict what life was like for African Americans at that time. Because African Americans were treated differently than white people, made fun of, and segregated from whites, the mood of the book is perfect. The clothes of the characters, which are part of atmosphere, also help strengthen the novel. Cassie, for example, wears dresses most of the time and almost never wears jeans. Her clothes match the clothes that the women wore in the 1930s and 1940s because it was considered improper for women of that time to wear boyish clothes. The thick trees and forests also serve as a great atmosphere because the Deep South is covered with trees. Humidity and stickiness, which is what the southeastern United States contains, is also used in the book to describe the climate that the characters live in. I think the part where Jeremy Simms helped out Moe by giving him a ride in his truck weakened the book because it's unrealistic. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, no white man would give a black man that just injured three other white men a ride to safety. This is so because if other white folks heard that a white man helped a black man, the white man could be punished more severely than the black man. Next, the three Aames brothers contributed greatly to the literary device of atmosphere because they served as the "bad guys" of the book. In every novel, there has to be at least one bad guy to make it exciting. However, I believed that the character of Little Willie could have been omitted when the book was written. When you first meet him, he seems like he will be a major character. But instead he just works with Stacey and Moe and rides along with them in the car everywhere. Next, the car that Stacey buys contributes greatly to the novel because it distinguishes the Logans from other African American families. It makes the Logans seem richer and more important than other blacks. If the Logans didn't have something to distinguish them from others, they would just appear to be a normal family and wouldn't seem as important. Also, the segregation of whites and blacks makes the book more interesting. It makes you realize how the blacks felt about it and actually how badly treated they were. In the book, Cassie tries to go to the bathroom in a white ladies restroom. For doing it, the gas station manager kicks her when she's on the ground and causes here to lose her purse, which had money and other important items in it. The dirt roads also added to the literary device of atmosphere and strengthened the novel because they seemed to be the same way I would picture them to be. When the cars went over the dirt roads, dust would fly from the back of them. However, the thing I noticed most was the accents of all of the characters. Every character spoke improper English and some spoke a little gibberish. This added to atmosphere because it made me feel that I was actually in the Deep South with all of the characters. Everything in the book appeared to be very realistic and accurate. Last, the general layouts of the towns were very impressive because everything was spread out from each other and that's how many small towns are these days. Everything in the book appeared to be very realistic and accurate.
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Summary: Best Book out of all 3!!
Review: The Road To Memphis I found was my favorite book out of "Roll Of
Thunder, and Let The Circle Be Unbroken. The only bad part is the ending, because it leaves you wondering- what happens to Moe,
will he and Cassie end up together? Moe was my fav. character
and I loved his personality. Its really hard to believe that only 60 yrs ago, blacks were treated this badly, and I found tears
in my eyes when Cassie and Her Father were talking about living
to see Blacks treated equally, and now {by most people,they are}.
I absolutely loved this series, and im hoping that Mildred Taylor
will make another sequal! Also anyone who has heard about a sequal, or has seen the movie
Roll of Thunder.... email me plz.
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Summary: The Road to Memphis... A review
Review: The Road to Memphis. In the story The road to Memphis, Cassie, Little Man, and Chris John are waiting for Kacie, the Logan's oldest son, to come home on the bus. But when the bus gets there Kacie doesn't get off the bus. About 5 minuets later they hear a car and it is Kacie. At the end Kacie is forced with is new car to drive to a free state where white folks don't care what black folks have. For the overall rating I would rate this book a 9.5. I like all books by Mildred D. Taylor. This book was very descriptive and detailed. Some other good books by her are Roll of thunder hear my cry. And Let the circle be unbroken.
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Summary: Synopsis
Review: The third book to the Logan family series, Mildred Taylor has written yet another compelling, startling story. At age 17, Cassie Logan is still learning the hardships of having colored skin in Mississippi. But despite all the descrimination, she stands up for her and her family.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
Review: These are excellent books. All (young and old) should read these books and get a better undstanding of black history.
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Summary: all mildred D. Taylor books
Review: These are excellent books. All (young and old) should read these books and get a better undstanding of black history.
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Summary: 14yr old
Review: This book has got to be one of the best I've ever read so far. The realism of it made you feel as if you were there, right next to the Logan family. I'm just hoping a third novel will come out, so I can see what happened to Cassie, Moe, and the rest of the characters. Well I'll be waiting!
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is absolutely great! Mildred D. Taylor explains the hardships of blacks in her books. This is a very sad book because Cassie has 3 friends that leave and her brother leaves. Cassie says she'll never fall in love, but she falls in love with a guy named Solomo Bradley. I won't give the book away to you, so get a book yourself a read it to see what happens! I wish Taylor would make a sequal to this book because I want to know what happens. I HIGHLY RECCOEND THIS BOOK! Get it now!
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Summary: "The Road To Excitement!"
Review: This book is my most favorite book out of all the books I've ever read in the Logan Family series! I love the part at the end when Moe finally expresses his love for Cassie when he was about to leave for Chicago to stay with Uncle Hammer for a while. During the story many exciting and adventurous events happen that lead to Moe fleeing the state, Clarence Hopkins dying and Sissy becoming pregnant. All the Logan kids and their friends are now older, and they each go through things that they could never imagine.
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