Roll Of Thunder Hear Me Cry Character Analysis

“The fig tree just keeps on growing and and doing what it gotta do. It don't give up. It give up, it'll die. There's a lesson to be learned to be learned from that little tree, Cassie girl, cause we're like it. We keep doing what we gotta do and we don't give up. We can't.” The novel Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry is about a black family trying to keep their land while living in the South in the 1930s while facing challenges. They are one of many families that face racism, injustice and segregation daily from other sharecropping families and more. There are big challenges along the way to keep their land, such as them losing their jobs and not having enough money. No matter what the threats that they get are, they are always courageous. Courage

He shows courage by standing up for himself, standing up for others, being loyal and honest. Being a loyal friend Stacey takes the blame for something that someone else did. For example, when Stacey gets in trouble for “cheating” he takes the punishment without telling mama that T.J. was the actually the one cheating. He was honest when Stacey confesses to mama that he went to the Wallace’s store chasing after T.J. Stacey stands up for T.J. when the night riders were trying to lynch T.J. and when papa set his own crops on fire as a distraction. This is courageous because Stacey throughout the book continues to stand up for what he believes for even though he knows that him being Black will get him in lots of trouble for the smallest things that he does. This is all because of

How this shows courage is that she's talking about how she never gave up and how she's still “climbing on.” Also how she sometimes gets stuck at a dead end and doesn't know what to do and feels like she doesn't have anyone to support her or to talk to. This relates to the novel when the bank called up the loan four years early and said that they had a week to pay the whole land off or else there gonna lose their land. When they received the bad news they all felt like there's no point to do anything anymore and they felt like there about to lose everything. They were stuck. Both in the novel and the text they both persevered through the hard times and went a different direction, a better direction. For the book they persevered because Uncle Hammer got the money for them buy selling his car and in the poem she persevered and got through it