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Cassies Courage Quotes

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Courage is the ability for standing up for someone with strength and helping people when no one will. Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of thunder, Cassie faces discrimination she shows courage for standing up for blacks rights. Her family and all African Americans are treated unfairly because of the color of their skin. She stands up for her convictions and doesn’t change her convictions. She showed courage when she stood up to Mrs. Crocker, Lillian Jean, and Mr. Barnett at the mercantile. She had a lot of things that she didn’t understand at the time. On the first day of school Little Man's teacher was not at school so Mr. Crocker Cassie's teacher has to teach both classes. The first day they got something they had never had before books. Little Man opened the first page and saw that the books were handy downs from the white schools and they were old “Very poor” (pg. 25). This made Little Man mad he through his book on the ground Mr. Crocker wanted him to pick it up, but he wouldn’t. The teacher was going to give him a whipping, then Cassie stood up and showed her what made Little Man mad. Mr. Crocker would not listen, so Cassie through her book down too, and …show more content…

were going with Big Ma to strawberry to shop at the Mercian Teal for food for all the families that were not going to shop at the Wallace store. Big Ma made a stop at the bank, so Cassie, Stace, and T.J. thought they were going to help and went to go order their groceries. When they got there they gave Mr. Barnett there list to get all their groceries. Then Mrs. Barnett asked for help, it was a grownup, so Cassie understood why they would do their order first (pg 110). Then as Cassie was leaving the store there was a little white girl he took her order before T.J. and Cassie went to talk to Mr. Barnett. She came over there said you were taking our order before this little girl. Mr. Barnett got mad your black and I take whites orders before blacks and get this little black out of

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