In the book Roll of Thunder, Cassie goes through a lot crazy events in Alabama. The author of this book Mildred D. Taylor hoped that this book would someday teach kids the movement of Civil rights. One of the most influential characters in this story is Cassie. Cassie is a young girl who lives in rural Alabama with her brothers and parents. Throughout the book Roll of Thunder, Cassie shows many good qualities. One of them is being helpful, she shows this in many ways. Some ways she shows this is when she helps Mama in the kitchen and when she helped T.J get home. Another quality that she shows is bravery, she shows this by staying calm, quiet, and hidden when she was stopped by a truck on the way to Vicksburg. One last quality is that she …show more content…
Everyday when it was wet a school bus would splash them so they came up with a plan to get it stuck. Days after this Granger and one of the Wallace brothers came to hear what Mama was teaching. When they heard that what she was teaching was not in the textbook she was fired. A couple of days later Cassie went to Strawberry and was pushed onto the sidewalk by a white person. On a dark night after the incident in Strawberry, Papa and Mr. Morrison went to Vicksburg and on the way back Papa broke his leg. Cassie, Mr. Morrison, and Stacy were also stopped by a truck on the way to the Wiggins´s house. Before the Revival comes to town the Simms brothers and T.J rob a store. At the end of August the Revival came to town and during this T.J asks for help to get home from Cassie and her brothers. Once T.J gets home people come to his house and beat up him and his family because he had robbed the store. There was a thunderstorm during the fight and lightning struck a post and started a fire in Cassie's families cotton field. This interrupted the fight and everybody came to help put it out. After the fire was out T.J was taken to jail and Cassie cried for T.J and the the land that was