The Novel ' Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry Overall Is The Most Admirable Character

To this day kids are still getting segregated by race and class. According to the GAO,“report shows that more than 20 million students of color now attend racially and socioeconomically isolated public schools. That is up from under 14 million students in 2001.”(Scott) The segregation keeps getting worse according to the data and this needs to stop. Kids should get equal education and should be in diverse communities. In the novel, similar segregation also occurred. When Calpurnia took Jem and Scout to the church and they got confronted by Lula. “I wants to know why you bringin’ white chillun to nigger church.”(119) When people think about racial segregation they think about blacks not being allowed but in this case, Jem and Scout were stopped even though they were white. Either way, segregation happened before and is still

His family are fairly poor, white sharecroppers who hate all blacks. Jeremy, however, tries not to get involved in this racism. Cassie has her first real experience of racial prejudice when she takes a trip into Strawberry. Cassie accidentally bumps into Lillian Jean. Cassie apologises but Lillian Jean

Near the end of the book Cassie bumps into Jeremy Simms sister and her dad comes and pushes Cassie off the sidewalk.“It was then that I bumped into Lillian Jean Simms… Mr. Simms glared down at me “When my gal Lillian Jean says for you to get yo’self off the sidewalk, you get, your hear.” This shows her losing innocence because she now sees how terrible white people are to push a 9 year old girl off the sidewalk because someone bumped into her. Lillian and her dad are very racist so now she knows not to mess with her and not to talk back.

Cassie Logan is a black, nine year old girl living in rural Mississippi. Throughout her life Cassie displays many different qualities, she can be feisty, sassy, and clever, but most of all she is courageous. This does not just mean she is plucky or tenacious, it means she is “brave and/or fearless” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). Whenever she shows this quality, she stands up for herself, as well as others. Being courageous is so important simply because she is a black girl living in 1933. Racism was very common at that time, and standing up for yourself was the only way you would get respect. However, in some incidents described in the book, Cassie changed her life for the better and took one step closer towards a fairer world. There are three

Cassie is the main character in Mildred D. Taylor’s story “Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry”. She is a smart, curious 9 year old. As time goes on, Cassie and her family learns many lessons throughout the book. We can see her grow and get a better understanding of how black’s were treated during the 1930’s. Cassie has many racist moments that occur to her, angering her and her family. It is hard for her to realize that her family is more fortunate than many other black family’s. As time goes on, Cassie gets a better understand of segregation. Eventually during the book, Cassie realizes that having a place of one's own results in a feeling of security and pride.

The characterization is one of the real strengths of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Ten years after all of the drama with TJ and the Wallace’s, Cassie gets transferred to an all white Jefferson Davis school. On the first day of school Cassie walks on the bus with all of the white kids, as she was walking to the back of the bus the white kids were staring at her in a weird way that makes her spit on a white kid before she even gets to sit down. She then gets thrown off the bus and has to walk in the mud with a black kid, Scotty Smith that had moved here two days ago. When Cassie figured out that a boy was moving into a house in front of their house she was blushing. As they were walking to the school it was very awkward because Cassie likes Scotty Smith, but she didn’t have the courage to tell him before they had to split apart to go to their different schools.

Everyday you should show courage because every time you show courage, it makes someone happy, and when you show courage you are showing strength and bravery. Throughout the book, Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor, Stacey showed lots of courage when he dug a trench 12 feet wide, and crashed a bus that covered them in mud and dirt every morning for the children’s entertainment, and when he helped his friend that left him in the dust and didn’t do anything for him. Stacey was a great character throughout the book, and showed the most courage in Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry. He was the oldest Logan of the children, and he did a lot of things for others around him.

After the incident at the grocery shop, Mama says that Cassie doesn’t understand the way of things because Cassie always assumed that no matter what their race is, everyone is treated equally and she hadn’t really grasped the idea of racism or the fact that it was happening in her community. One piece of evidence that supports this claim is when on page 89, Cassie says, “Well what the devil we doing beck here then! Can’t nobody see us. ”. This statement from Cassie to Big Ma reflects how Cassie doesn’t understand that black people are placed below the white people in a social hierarchy, meaning that her family, being black, must keep their cart in the back to avoid any trouble with the white folks. Another piece of evidence that demonstrates

right and she is going to do something about it for what she believed in. Cassie is willing to face the consequences for doing what is not right for blacks to do because she believes differently.

There can be a lot of tension between characters because of how they are thought of by the community. There is a lot of tension between the black side of the community and the white side. This is why they are split up and why citizens are judged for talking to or being with someone with a different skin color. An example from the text is “Lula stopped, but she said,’You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here-they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church ain’t it, Miss Cal?’”(158). This quote reveals that even though Scout was just trying something new and trying to help prevent segregation, yet she was still judged. As soon as she went to the black community there were people who did not want Scout there. There was also tension between characters like Lula and Scout because Scout was out of place. In this book the relationships of some of the characters help to reveal the theme of

Crocker, and her brother. When Cassie and Little Man were in school, they were given books that were used already by white kids. They were old, and dirty. There was a name that was used in the books, that offended the Logan kids. Little Man asked for new books, but Ms. Crocker gave him a switch. Cassie stood up for her brother, and got switched too. Cassie showed courage when she said, “They give us these ole books when they didn’t want em’ no more.” Cassie is starting to realize that life isn’t always going to be fair. This shows that Cassie is brave, and is not afraid to stand up for what she believes in. Cassie is also willing to stand up for her family, not just herself. From this moment on, Cassie will realize that life won’t always be

Cassie loves her land and is willing to do anything for her land and family. One challenge that Cassie faces is in the Barnett Mercantile. When T.J. is waiting for Mr.Barnett to get his stuff all of a sudden Mr. Barnett just starts helping a white girl. Cassie got mad at this because he was waiting on her because she was white and just left T.J. there. When Cassie saw this she was furious she said “Sir um sir.”(pg 111)Mr.Barnett looked and her and then Cassie said “You was waiting on T.J. then you started waiting on

Imagine living in a world where everyone was racist and looked at you with contempt just because you were African American. Well, Cassie Logan lived in a world like this. For Cassie Logan, life is extremely unfair, as is, for every other African American it the Mississippi. But the Logans are in an entirely different situation, they have their own land. They face a lot of obstacles while fighting for justice and equality for others and themselves.

     Something I found interesting about this book was how a whole town that respects this family can turn around and hate them just for befriending the black community. I think the strongest point of the book is how much Scout grows up in this book and sees the world for what it really is. She learned how man can treat another man so cruel over things such as race and rankings in society. Scout learned so many things in her summers that takes some people a lifetime to learn. She learn to love and respect people no matter who and of what class they are and to see beyond color and hatred toward toughs who are different.