Mississippi+Bridge+reviewed+by+Erica

__Mississippi Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor__ reviewed by Erica Alexander Submitted by: 5-26-2011 __Mississippi Bridge__ is basically a short story told in Jeremy Simms' eyes. Instead of Cassie Logan originally being the narator from one of Taylor's famously reknown novels, it is being played through Jeremy's point of view. It all starts by the Logan store, when Jeremy notices that Josias was planning to take a trip to get a job, but his father and the Logans were being rude and judging about how black men shouldn't be able to have better jobs than a white man. Soon eventually he gets on the bus and pays for his ticket. Then he sees the Logan children coming up to the store with Big Ma. Since she was the on going to a bus to tend to her ill sister,she got onto the back of the bus and told the children her goodbyes and told them to go and run an errand for a family friend. After joining them on the walk to their destination, Jeremy came back and realizes that the bus hadn't moved yet because they was not enough so the colored people had to get off in courtesy of the white people. Finally the bus had left; swerving through the rainy and glum weather without the black people including Big Ma, when bus soon swerved off the bridge and left a mother and daughter dead. In my opinion, I feel as if Jeremy didn't quite understand why the Logan kids didn't really acknowledge him or why blacks were treated that way. I enjoyed this heartfelt book and would suggest it to several different people I know.

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