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    Many people show courage when they are willing to speak the truth even when it's not popular; they have to follow their beliefs. In the book by Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is based in Mississippi in the 1930’s. Stacey is a humble caring child, and he is helpful and protective. He is 12 and he is the oldest child in the Logan family. He is always taking risks to keep his friends, Siblings, and family members safe. While Stacey is also standing up for what he believes in. He is

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    Courage is doing the thing that is hard, but right. We do it if we know that it will be har or not. In the book Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry By Mildred D. Taylor created the character Stacey to show his convictions and courage. He showed this when he dug the trench for the bus, stood up to T.J by saying that he will not go to the Wallis, and when he helped Papa when he was hurt. Stacey is a sweet, kind, family loving guy. He will stick with you even if you made a big mistake and is a great friend

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    Courageous Characters Being courageous has nothing to do with who you are, it’s what you do that counts. During the novel, Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor uses Stacey to show his courageousness. It all starts when he thinks up a very creative plan to stop the bus, then it advances to Stacey fighting T.J., and also as he helped T.J when he was hurt. He makes a plan to stop the bus to it would quit splashing his siblings on his way to school. He also fights T.J down at the Wallace Store

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    Through the book, Mildred taylor shows in Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry, she shows how the logans have to face terrible things and they show courage, and they also have to deal with racist and bad people throughout this book. For example, Stacey helped T.J go home even though that T.J cheats, steals and lies and stacey always takes the blame, also Stacey beats up T.J when he accused Stacey gets accused of cheating and gets whipped by his own mom in her classroom, and when T.J got her mom fired he did

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    Courage doesn't rely on the wealthy or the poor, it relies on the brave people's actions of the world. In the book, 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

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    The students at some point have to show courage, if someone is being bullied, mistreated, or just sad. Courage is showing bravery and just doing what's right. In Mildred Taylorś book, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry. Stacey has to show courage, when he took the blame for T.J. cheating.. Stacey also had to show courage by, coming up with the idea of digging the trench, and Stacey got everyone involved with the idea of digging the trench, for the bus to fall in. Stacey shows courage by taking the blame

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    In the story “Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry”, written by Mildred Taylor takes place during the Jim Crow era. Throughout the story characters are faced with challenges. Stacey is torn between choosing Stacey or T.J as a friend. The two boys both have different qualities, but Jeremy is proven to be a more useful friend. Jeremy would make a better friend for Stacey than T.J because Jeremey has many better qualities such as brave, loyal, and friendly as it shows throughout the story. Stacey is a better

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    A common theme in Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and Emmett Till is that you should not discriminate and hate people for who they are. One quote from Roll of Thunder Hear my cry is ¨But, Big man’ little man protested, if´n that old bus driver would slow down, I wouldn't get muddy! ...or if we had a bus like theirs.¨(pg. 45) This shows the theme because as the kids walk to school everyday they get splashed by mud as the white kids school bus comes down the road. They Kids down get a bus because they

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    shows us in his quote that we all need some sort of differences in our lives we else everyone and thing would be similar in every way. Unlike Cassie and scout they are both similar and have little differences between one another.In both texts Roll of thunder, Hear My Cry and To Kill a Mocking bird we learn that scout and Cassie both irresponsible, curious about events or people in the texts, and are both somewhat shy to others.

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    Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry is a novel written by Mildred D. Taylor in 1976. The Logan family, a black family, is the main focus in the novel. Mildred D. Taylor writes about the Logan family's lives during the time period of the Great Depression, and how the Logan family faces racism. Some people, mainly white, still aren’t keen on the fact that black people aren’t servants to the white. With that situation, lots of racism is presented in this novel, and Taylor shows that through the Logan family

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