Stacey the Courageous Courage is doing something you don 't want to do,but need to do.Courage,is the best trait you could have. In the novel, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry,Mildred D. Taylor uses stacey to show courage.He showed courage by protecting T.J. and fighting T.J.When it was hard for blacks to show courage Stacey was one of the ones that did. Are you brave and have enough courage to sacrifice yourself for your best friend?Stacey was,Stacey was such a good friend that he let himself get whipped instead of T.J. “At first T.J. wouldn’t do it,but then he seen Miz Logan startin toward him and he slipped stacey the notes.Well Stacey didn’t see Miz Logan comin when he took them notes and by the time he saw her it was too late to get