In the novel “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry” by Mildred D. Taylor, Cassie learns how hard it is to live in a world run by white people, trying to survive and grow up in an unjust world as an African American. For example, as Cassie was walking down the sidewalk in the town of Strawberry, she accidentally runs into a white girl and apologizes which just isn 't enough: “That 's not enough. Get down in the road so you don 't bump into decent white people with your little nasty self” (Taylor 113). This awakens Cassie 's mind with how controlling white people are when they would like something done and how cruel a world can be even to a child. Even with someone the same age as Cassie,Lillian Jean seems to a bigger place in society and is given more