In the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, there is this young black girl named Cassie Logan that lives in the days where racism is very alive. She brings courage to her family by looking past all of the terrible things that happens to a poor black family. To the Logan family, their land is very important and no one is going to that pride from them no matter how other may degrade them. In the story, the main character Cassie is very stubborn. Cassie has this trait because growing up in a house full of boys and on top of that being poor, she’s not going to listen to anyone. “You can’t sit here, I’m saving it for Mary Lou” (Taylor 18) and what Cassie had to say was wonderful, “Not anymore you ain’t” (Taylor 18). When she