Road to Memphis Book Report
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A Road to Memphis
Mildred Taylor
Copyright 1990
290 pages
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The Road to Memphis, by Mildred Taylor, was a very interesting book. It taught me a lot about American History. The main thing I learned was about the daily lives of African Americans and the way they were treated amongst whites. The blacks were very looked down upon and were segregated horribly. The story took place in the 1940's and was told by an African American seventeen-year-old girl, named Cassie. It tells about her family life, her social life, her school life, and her altogether personal life. In this book report, I will share with you a summary, an analysis, a comparison of this book and another, and my complete opinion of this story. But most of all, I will tell you the story of the Logan family and about all the hardships that the Logan family and all other blacks went through in this horrible period of time in the history of America.
Cassie Logan, a seventeen-year-old African American girl, narrates the story in first person point of view. She has a normal sized family consisting of her eldest brother, Stacey, who works at the Box Factory in Jackson, her younger brother, Christopher John, who is fifteen, and her youngest brother, Little Man, who is fourteen...