With reading fiction novels, rather real or nonfiction, you can always get a sense of the time that you are reading about. Willing reading “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” and “The Story of Harriet Tubman” you can feel the racial tension and injustice of the slavery and civil rights era, even with close to one hundred years separating these two stories. In “Bronx Masquerade,” Nikki Grimes gives you the sense that you are in a present day high school, even though it was wrote in 2002. Being able to write novels andstories, with a sense of reality gives the reader the illusion that it is nonfiction even if it is not. You are able to see the characters grow and develop within their personality to become one of the main characters with a future no mater what time period the story is…show more content… As a child, Harriet was taken from her own family and sent to care for a baby of another family (Bird, 1529).Same African American children were commonly sent to assist with the child rearing of slaveholder’s children. This action required Harriet to grow up very fast and therefore shereally never had a childhood like most children would have in today’s time. With the numerous hardships that she was able to overcome, this made her appear tough and resilience to the slaveholder’s power thus allowing her to be strong in the face of danger. This strength, that was not present in most women during this time, lead her to be the famous heroine that she is today. “The Story of Harriet Tubman,” is a great example that can be used within the classrooms today to help children that may feel overwhelmed withthe conditions that they live in and see that they too could overcome their past to be a great and mighty person. Harriet was poor growing up and she had to endure child labor, which in today’s time would be unthinkable, but yet she did not become a victim of her circumstances and give up all
