1. Using the Opening chapters of "Roll Of thunder: Hear My Cry"
From the start of the novel's very first chapter, Morrison aims to show the destructive effect of white male-dominated society in the lives of her characters. ... He stands in line for nearly a week hoping for the chance to work a masculine road building job, "real work" as he calls it, instead of the waiter position he currently holds (81). ...
In this case, in Chapter 6, the author tells about his past experiences going to Church with his family, and recalling his mother's true embrace of Christianity, her singing voice, the fact that she was the only white person there, and how odd and exaggerated Reverend Owen's sermons were whenever going to Whosoever Baptist Church. ... On that day, she drove crazily on the road, and declared to never drive again. ...
In the first chapter, the protagonist feels somewhat like a criminal in his secret. 3 This however was because of the codes set by society in 1912. ... They are in juxtaposition, as they walk down the same road of life, but in different styles. ...