Mildred Taylor's Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry

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Courage doesn’t always ROAR sometimes courage is that quiet at the end of the day saying, “I WILL TRY AGAIN TOMORROW”In the novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor uses Cassie Logan as an example of a young that shows courage by standing up for her own kind and not letting anyone tell her she can’t do something cause she is black.Cassie shows her courage when she stands up for Little man, beats up Lillian Jean, and asking why Mr. Barnett skipped her in the store and helped another customer. Would you be willing to take a beating for your sibling or friends? Cassi Logan took a wippen for her brother because of the dirty book that they gave to her and Little Man. Little man was going to get a wopen because he refused to take the book …show more content…

Cassie worked really hard to get Lillian Jean to trust her after what happened at Strawberry. For a month, Cassie acts like Lillian Jean’s personal servant. Lillian Jean grows more and more fond of Cassie, eventually telling Cassie all her secrets. One day Cassie leads Lillian Jean into the woods, beats her up, and forces her to apologize for the event in Strawberry. Then Cassie threatens to reveal all of Lillian Jean’s secrets if the older girl ever admits that Cassie attacked her.“you mutter one word of this to anybody, Lillian Jean,”i said, attempting to narrow my eyes like papa’s, “ just one person and everybody at jefferson Davis is gonna know who you crazy ‘bout and all you other business…” page 180. She finally faced her fear of Lillian Jean and showed he who is …show more content…

Barnetts store? Cassie Logan was not going to let Mr. Barnett (store owner) make her wait just because a white person came and needed checked out when she was first there. So when the kids gave Mr. Barnett the list for him to fill he did so, but just then he had gotten interrupted by a white women thats list is twice as long as. And Mr. Barnett had put the kids list behind and helped the women. Just once more customer had came in and he was not bigger than cassie, and by this time Cassie ws getting very frustrated because she was there first and he just kept helping everyone else. So she quietly reminded him that she was there first and he just ignored her. Cassie was already frustrated at him but after he just ignored her she was angry and mad at Mr. Barnett and he just kicked her out of his store. She learned that peoples are going to treat her different because of her skin color, but at the same she did not know why they did the way they did towards the

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