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Character Analysis Of Cassie In The Book 'Roll Of Thunder'

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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

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Looking at Roll of Thunder, the main character is Cassie Logan, I would define her as a subject and an object in the book. She is an subject because she plays an active role in her experiences, she has a voice and she feels empowered. Although, she is not allowed to make decisions and choices because she is a child. An example of Cassie being a subject is when she receives her book on the first day of school and the book is very old and dirty;they are books no longer needed at the white school. When Little Man opened the book and saw what was written in the book, he refused to pick up the book.

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Throughout Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Cassie shows multiple examples of courage. Cassie Logan stands up for her family and doesn’t let her family down even if she is very young. Cassie proves her courage by standing up to Lillian Jean Simms,standing up for Little Man, and helping T.J despite the things he 's done. Cassie actions prove her courage . She is a very strong girl and lives to support her family.

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You miss every shot you don’t take, and the shots you don’t take are the ones that could mean everything. In the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, Mildred D. Taylor uses Stacey, a 13 year old boy to show amazing acts of courage and bravery. Stacey showed amazing acts of courage in the book, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, by helping T.J. get back to his house when he was beaten by R.W. and Melvin, he went to Strawberry with Papa and Mr. Morrison when he knew it might be dangerous, and he dug a hole to break the white kids bus on the way to school. In the book, Roll of Thunder, we know that Stacey is a 12-year-old boy who will stand up for what he believes in. For example, when he went to help Papa when he was hurt, he refused to stay home than go to the Wallace’s.

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