Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Maturity Quotes

Throughout the novel of Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry plot describes many characters and has lots of action throughout the entire book. There are also many characters which help to create interesting dialogue. In the novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry , Taylor develops the characters of Stacey, Cassie and T.J in order to create very diverse and well developed personalities within the novel. Mildred Taylor uses the traits of maturity and responsibility to show the character of Stacey in the novel. An example in the book of Stacey have maturity and responsibility is when papa is talking to mama. “David, he’s just a boy.” “Baby, a boy get as big as Stacey down here and he’s near a man. He’s gotta know a man’s things. He gotta know how to handle himself.” “I know, but—” “Mary, I want him strong . . . not a fool like T.J “ (Taylor 140). This quote shows papa talking saying that Stacey is turning into a man which shows his maturity.

An example from the book of Cassie being rebellious is at Mr.Barnett’s store in Strawberry. “Y-you was helping us,” I said, backing to the front of the counter again. “Well, you just get your little black self back over there and wait some more,” he said in a low, tight voice. I was hot. I had been as nice as I could be to him and here he was talking like this. “We been waiting on you for near an hour,” I hissed, “while you ’round here waiting on everybody else. And it ain’t fair. You got no right “ (Taylor 76). This shows Cassie being rebellious because most blacks would not speak out like that to Mr.Barnett to say that he needs to serve