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    Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Cassie Logan is a very sassy, outspoken eleven year old girl that, in my opinion, is the most courageous character throughout the novel. Some things that made Cassie courageous was that she stood up for Little Man, her little brother, at Great Faith Elementary School, stood up for her and Stacey, her older brother, at the mercantile, and she had to ‘grow up a little’ and apologize to her rival, Lillian Jean Simms. Cassie truly had to be courageous to get through

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    treated in a bad way by another person. In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor Makes Cassie a person who is snappy and sassy but at the same time nice to his friends and family no matter what. Cassie shows courage when she stood up to Lillian Jean and when she stood up for her brother. Cassie proves her courage by standing up for her brother Little Man when he said that he didn’t want the book. Cassie Knew that Little Man didn’t want to read the because of the poor condition that the book

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    In Chapter 5 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor, Cassie’s innocence causes her to find herself in frightening situations. Cassie, the black female protagonist of the story, lives in 1933, in Mississippi, where instances of racism happen daily. However, Cassie, because she is 9 years old and her family wants to protect her from the injustices of the world for as long as possible, doesn’t have a clear understanding of why the white people in her life are doing bad things to her or knowledge

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    you. In the book Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry, Mildred Taylor defines Cassie Logan as a young girl, who is very courageous and is not afraid of what she believes in. She faces a lot of challenges that demand courage, and integrity. Cassie proved that she was courageous by standing up for her brother when they didn’t want the dirty school books, standing up to Lillian Jean, and sneaking out to take T.J. back to his house. If Cassie didn’t show courage doing these things, somebody could have gotten hurt

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    1930 Mississippi community. In the fifth chapter Cassie (the only daughter of the family) displays many acts of innocents while joining Big Ma on her trip to Strawberry. The first act of innocence shown by Cassie happens when she sees the other wagons selling their goods over at the entrance. At the entrance they would have more customers then they would at their spot. But the owners of the wagons that were at the entrance were all white. Cassie wanted to go over towards the entrance to they could

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    about racism when Cassie goes to Strawberry for the first time. She was excited, but it was not all that she hoped because it is there where she learns about racism, because it is all around. Cassie describes her day as cruel she is at the market, the store, or even just walking down the sidewalk. Cassie sees racism when at the market when they park their cart in the back and she does not understand why. When Cassie asks her Big Ma tells her, “Them’s white folks’ wagons, Cassie,” (157) showing that

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    example, in The 5th Wave, Cassie Sullivan is the main protagonist in the story. At the beginning of the book, Cassie worked solo, meaning she didn’t partner up or associate with anyone else on her journey of finding Sam. Later on in the book, when Cassie meets Evan Walker, she learned how to tell the difference between people that you could trust, and people that you can’t

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    Cassie daughter of Hecate. She was roaming the city Delphi in greece she could see the stone towers and pillars in the whole city she loved it she called it the city in stone. She knew all of the people in greece and was abandoned by her mother like many demigods. She protects the city from evil and monsters from the underworld. When she was walking on her usual patrol she felt something graze her leg. She looked around once more and turned to continue Cassie felt a small graze on her left leg

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    uses Cassie as an example of a girl who has to stand up for her family and has to do what is right even though she may not like it. Cassie shows courage by standing up for little man with the teacher, having to deal with Lillian Jean Simms and her being mean to her all the time, she also stood up to Mr. Barnett and telling him that they need to treat them right.Cassie dealt with things by thinking that they aren’t right and she is going to do something about it for what she believed in. Cassie is willing

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    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor introduces us to a young girl, named Cassie that wants to stand up for her beliefs even though there were many road blocks throughout this book. There are many ways that Cassie showed courage, but I chose three of her quotes. They were when Cassie stood with Little Man and helped him, she tried to stand up to Mr.Barnette, and she stood up to Lillian Jean Simms. Cassie´s actions proved that she wanted to make the racist part of her world, not really be

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