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The Road to Memphis

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The setting has a very big impact on the story because it was during the time when African-Americans were mistreated because of their skin color, and they were in the south where it was easier to get away with because the North had been against slavery. Out of all of them, if I had to choose one that was more important then all, it would have to be Strawberry. Strawberry is an average town, no big landmarks or things to make it stand out on the map. On the story map it plays a major roll because it is where part of the climax takes place. (The rest is all on the way to Memphis, hence the title.) Stacey stops to make the final payment on his car. Clawrence goes into the store to get something for his headache. The rest of them (Little, Willie Moe, and Cassie) go to the mechanic to fix the flat. There 3 white men are teasing Moe. He lashes out by hitting them with the crow bar he was using to take the tire off. The rest of the settings include Great Faith and Jackson.

I read this book in one day!! I read "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" in 8th grade as a class requirment and I loved it and I started looking for the sequals and prequals a couple of weeks ago. So far I like this one the best. Cassie Logan is 17 and still has a temper when it comes to segragation and one of the young white boys Jeremy Simms cousin Statler is setting eyes on young and beautiful Cassie Logan. an incident happens causing the Moe to flee to Memphis with the help of Cassie, Stacie, Clarence, Little Willie, and Jeremy Simms. On the way Cassie meets a very handsome man in a cafe........... Great book I highly reccomend you read it or get it for your child. Taylor is very good in expressing the hardships of the African American people during that time period.

I am in eighth grade at San Francisco Day School. I read both The Road to Memphis by Mildred Taylor and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee for my English class. I found the two books closely related. They are both about a community in a racist time period and how it survives, or attempts to survive the hardships it suffers in a short period. The Road to Memphis is about a black community in the 1940's. The main character, Cassie, is a young black lady whose core group of family and friends is torn apart by several incidents over a three day period. Cassie's dream was to go to law school and become a lawyer. She thought that the court was a fair place where everyone, including blacks, were treated equally. This is the same belief Atticus and his family had in To Kill a Mockingbird before the Tom Robinson trial, when they lost faith in the whole judicial system. Unfortunately, a "fair" court does not make up for the unfair community and population running the court. Cassie's community was split up by racial slurs, death, and the start of World War Two. I thought that The Road to Memphis did a superb job of illustrating what life was like for a black lady in a time when neither ladies nor blacks were highly respected. The novel also showed how much your life can change in a very short time period. In the three days of turmoil Cassie found out how harsh this world was. She was harassed by several white men and lost four of her closest companions to death, or to the misuse of the power of the white community. It was disturbing how in three tragedy filled days, a young lady's life can be ruined, and the cards containing the future of a community can be shuffled so thoroughly. To Kill a Mockingbird also did an outstanding job of portraying the harshness of being black at that time. Although the spotlight was on a white family, Harper Lee was using that position to go inside a white community and write about their feelings toward blacks. The Tom Robinson trial was a good example of how a black person's life can be ruined by the corrupt, white dominated court.

This book was so expressive in everything about it! The people seemed real, the events seemed real. It was so amazing! The troubles blacks faced was enough to drive any person today wild and we have to know how strong both black and white are because without either one of us today, nothing would be the same. When Jeremy did what he did and the consequences he faced, I realized that everything in this book counted. Mildred D. Taylor brings this story alive with a modern touch that has people want to read it. I have never read a book that made me feel the way I feel about this book. And I know you will enjoy it. It is not just some racist book. It is a good book that everyone will enjoy and I have nothing negative to say about it! You will enjoy it and I hope you found my review helpful!

I thought The Road To Memphis was a very dramatic,compelling book. This is the third novel in the series written about the Logan family. This book takes place in 1941, right before the outbreak of World WarII. Cassie is 17 years old and a senior in high school dreaming of going onto law school. Stacey is working in Jackson and is driving his first car. A sequence of tragic events, incuding pregnancy and death, threatens to seperate the family, possibly forever. In Jackson Moe lashes out at his white tormentors, an act unheard of in Mississippi back then, almost killing them. Cassie, Stacey and their friends must try to get Moe to Memphis and safety. At the end of the book it doesn't tell you what happens to Jeremy, Stacey, Moe or Cassie. I found myself asking what happened to them? Mildred D. Taylor is and excellent writer. In reading this book I found she depicted the magnitude of racism in the 1940's very well. It really gave me an idea of what life was like in that era. It also made me realize how times have changed and how ucky I am to live in this day and age. I would suggest this book to readers who are old enough to comprehend the realism of it. This is a great book that I think all people should read at sometime in their life.

I love The Road To Memphis. I started reading Mildred D. Taylor's book at the beginning last year at school as a class reading but right away I loved it by the time my teacher stared I was at the end of chapter 1 in Roll of Thunder,Hear My Cry. After that I couldn't stop reading, and I got in trouble for reading it so quickly, but then I read Let the Circle be Unbroken, then found myself reading The Road To Memphis. The main charcters of this book is Cassie,Stacey,Moe,Claudia,Little man,Christopher-John. When Moe gets tired of the whites treating him like dirt,he beats up 3 white boys,almost killing them. Then has to make a run for a train in Memphis to get to Stacey's uncle Hammer, But on the way somebody dies (i'm not saying who).In the end even a white's life messes up.Before I read this book I knew slaves had a hard time, but after slavery I didn't know how they were treated, and I think all whites (including me) are well respected of blacks even without reading theese books.! And I recomend you reading her other books to!

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!

I would recommend this book because it speaks the truth and it doesn't hold anything back. I think that people who came from this background would like the story because it's our nature. It's easier for people who came from a similar background; it would be easier to understand. Some are used to hearing real southern slang 24/7. They can get into depth as I did, and relate to the story. They can read," in between the lines", the message is more clearly sent. This book was so real and you felt like you were there. I personally think that it wasn't hard to concentrate on the story because it was such a page-turner. Something was always exciting or causing anxiety. I learned a lot of things by reading this book. The message that was mainly focused was that racism wasn't a joke. For some people, the details got too emotional. The Road to Memphis was a terrific book.

I read the book over the summer it is extremely sad and I would not recommend it for an audience under 12. It was even better than the first book "roll of thunder, hear my cry" (I fell in love with both books). The whole problem in the book was that Moe, a black guy striked these white people with a crow bar when he got angry at them. This was an action unheard of for black people to do in those times so Moe had to run. Cassie Logan narrates you through this sad sad book. By the end of the book I was so attached to the characters that I cried because several unfortunate things happened in the end. I would STRONGLY recommend this book.

The Road to Memphis is one of the best books i have ever read. This book is a heart tugger, and shows you through writing, how hard it was back then, and how a young women, and her family struggle to get to memphis unharmed, and undetected. If you want an adventure that teaches you how it was back then..this book is the real deal.
My name is Ella, i am 13 almost 14, my mother bought this for me to read.