The Mamas & the Papas

both ways the would benefit the family. Bernice denies Boy Willie’s many attempts to persuade her. She does not want to let go of the piano because of how much her family sacrificed for it. Papa Boy Charles, Bernice’s and Boy Willie’s father became deeply obsessed with the piano. While on the subject of Papa Boy Charles, Doaker says, “ He never could get it off his mind. Two or three months go by and

In the novel ‘Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry’, several characters have persevered through injustice, hardship, and extreme racism. One of these characters is Mrs. Logan (Mama), who showed a lot of courage in school, by supposedly ruining the ‘new’ books that had been discarded to them from the white kids at the white school, so far that she got fired for it, but everyone knows that it was really for a different reason; shopping in Vicksburg, which also showed an incredible amount of courage, and this

her families past no matter what she does. This reveals that people should come to good terms with their past and learn to overcome it. The piano affected her positively because Berniece liked playing the piano. She would play it all the time for Mama Ola and her daughter learned how to play it as well. It affected her negatively because it had a gruesome past. Bernieces family would die over that piano. For example, Boy Charles died in the boxcars in a fire after the piano was found missing. After

If I had to describe Cathy as one specific stereotype, it would wholeheartedly be ‘The American’. Fed up with herself, quick to cast judgements on people she has barely or never met, and having a racist, derogatory opinion of the Latino members of her community, equating a majority population of them with the neighborhood being ‘bad’. However, Cathy does not throw done this judgement from a position of superiority financially or socially, having enough cats to make a desperate bachelor blush and

Billy lives in northeastern Oklahoma on the banks of the Illinois River. He really wanted 2 coonhounds puppies, but Papa can’t afford them. Billy works hard, selling fruit, vegetables, and bait to fishermen and close to 2 years later has enough money to buy 2 dogs. He gives the money to his grandfather, who buys the dogs. Billy sneaks off in the middle of the night to go to town and get them. He decides to name them Old Dan (who is brave) and Little Ann (who is smart). He begins to train Old

variety since they picked some many of them as they traveled the lands. But at the moment it seemed their parents were having their usually argument. Celina was off to the side playing her violin trying to drown out the yelling. “Luca, I think Mama and Papa are just trying to figure what direction we are taking. We are to leave very shortly. Why don’t you go fill up these buckets with water from the river? “Farrah patted her brother on the head and gave him a little push. “You know Celina you could

don’t have enough money he sits him “on his lap and they have a good talk.” (pg. 31). Papa doesn’t give up he continues to try to help his son. He tries to console his son with “three small steel traps” (pg, 32). Billy jumps up and down and hugs him (pg. 32). It is clear from these interactions that Billy feels loved and supported by his father.

with the Hubermanns. He was a faithful friend and followed her to the end! He was Liesel’s first and only love/kiss. Max Vandenburg arrived in Liesel’s kitchen November 1940. He was a jew that was looking for a place to hide during the war. Liesel’s papa owed Max’s dad a favor and was gonna repay him with protecting his boy. He taught Liesel to live life to its fullest and how to cherish everything it had to

her family would spend time together. Papa would "foresee" the girls future. When Maria Teresa asked Papa about her future, he said, " You, mi napita, you'll be our little coquette. You'll make a lot of men's mouths water."(9) Maria Teresa is going to have a lot of boys after her when she grows up because she has a good appearance and always maintain herself as a lady. Mate is also portrayed as an idolizer. The same night Mate was "shown" her future by Papa, she talks about her dreams of becoming

start with I would have sold because, of the physical and emotional abuse that was directed at African Americans during this time. In Document D it states “...the Wallace family brutally burn three African-American men without facing any punishment Mama… tires to organize a boycott.” This evidence shows that men were being burned just because they were black and had a different race. In Document E it says “With that, she reached for my arm and attempted to push me off the sidewalk. I braced myself