My courageous character is stacey.Sometimes characters are faced with danger. Throughout the novel Roll of Thunder hear my cry By mildred taylor stacey got a paddlen because T.J. put cheat notes in his pocket and he got caught. So since T.J. did that stacey got mad and went to the wallace store where he knew he was not supposed to go and when he got there he beat up T.J. for what he has done. That proves that stacey is really courages The first challenge that stacey faced was win T.J. put cheat notes in his pocket and he got caught and since T.J. did that Stacey chased him to the wallace store and then he caught T.J. and beat him up since he got stacy in trouble for something he didn't even do. Stacey is courageous for going down to the
wallace store even though he was told he would get his butt blistered so that was really brave. Another challenge that stacey faced was when he walked T.J. home in the dead of the night. The reason that was brave/courages is because RW and Melvin and other guys were after T.J. and since stacey is with him he can get hurt to bc they had guns and stacey could of got shot. So that proves that stacey is brave/courageous for doing that. Stacey having to put up wit T.J. getting him in trouble and walking T.J. home in the dead of the night proves that he is a very courages/brave character. Those are some of the reasons i picked stacey as my courageous character. He is much like Rosa Park bc she and him are brave and they arent afraid to tand up to white people.
How are T.J. and Stacey, from Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, different? Stacey and T.J. have many differences, and a lot of similarities. Stacey is Cassie's older brother, so he is an important character. T.J. is Stacey's friend at the beginning of the story, but near the end of the story T.J. tries to cheat on a final, and blames Stacey for it. In Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, Stacey and T.J. have many similarities and differences.
Courage is having to stand up for people who are being treated unfairly or if they have different skin color. In Mildred Taylor’s book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Stacey has to show courage by standing up for his friends and family. Stacey is a seventh grader at Great Faith Elementary School and is the oldest Logan kid. When Papa is gone, he feels like he needs to be the man of the house and watch out for his younger siblings. Stacey had to show courage when he helped Little Man get back on the bus, took the blame for the cheat notes, and took T.J. home when he was injured.
In True Grit, Charles Portis highlights Mattie Ross crossing boundaries of her vengeful reprisal for her father’s murderer, in contrast to her religious standards of forgiveness towards sinners like Tom Chaney. By doing so, Mattie encourages Rooster Cogburn to adopt a less judgmental sensibility towards criminals.
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TJ is not only thoughtless, he is also quite sly and knows how to get
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No matter of the looks people made towards him of something he didn’t do he still was brave enough to sit in that courtroom and defended his name. Even when the women was sitting up there lying on his behalf. Another Character in this novel that showed courage to me was Scout. Scout took on the courage to fight people no matter who it was , who she was around, or where it was. Behind her and her dad name she defended the both of them by just knocking people down. And just because of the comments made about her father she still didn’t go based off the rumors. Jem also showed courage in some of the actions he did because he took on some risky challenges. Some challenges that could’ve got him killed or hurt, and he wasn’t scared or nervous to do