Why might Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry be frequently banned or challenged? Do you agree with the concerns expressed in the article above?

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a. the scene is structured as a dialogue between two characters in their own informal language.

1. alliteration

2. wistful

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.