The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. i knew myself no longer. my original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame. how does the first-person point of view affect the meaning of the text? readers gain insight into the narrator's belief that he is possessed by a demon. readers learn about the narrator’s behavior from an emotional distance. readers learn the narrator's own analysis and explanation for his behavior. readers get an inside perspective on why the narrator feels he can treat the cat as he wishes.

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

the answer can be "credo" it means to believe = the word credo means "an official statement of beliefs"