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Major themes

Hope in the face of destruction. Many troublesome situations befall characters in the novel that it seems are impossible to overcome, and yet Taylor's characters always make it through. For example, when Uncle Hammer is forced to pay the bank, he sells his silver Packard, even though it was one of his cherished possessions. When Papa is faced with the impossible dilemma of attempting to stop a lynch mob from hanging T.J. without being killed himself, he finds a way by burning land.

Setting: Rural Mississippi in 1933. The Logans live in a small town next to the town called Strawberry.