Mildred D. Taylor's Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry

Courage is when you have the ability to do something that frightens one in the face of discrimination. The author of Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor writes about the main character Cassie, and her facing of the real world in the 1930’s. Cassie shows the most courage by standing up, for her little brother at school, her arch nemesis, and to Mr. Barnett at the mercantile.

Would you ever take the punishment for a sibling? In Mississippi, Cassie is an outspoken girl with numerous strong beliefs. At the very beginning of the book Cassie stands up for her brother to her teacher, Ms. Crocker at Great Faith Elementary. Little Man and Cassie are given “dirty and giveaway” books. Little Man is a neat freak, and says he does …show more content…
Lillian Jean Simms was one to Cassie. Cassie had always despised Lillian. When Cassie goes to Strawberry for the first time, they get into an argument and Cassie is the one that is forced to apologize. That is when Cassie starts to extremely despise Lillian Jean. Later on in the book, Cassie starts to try to be friends with her and gains her trust. Cassie blackmails her and beats her up. As the text says, “..... “Good for you Cassie,” replied Lillian Jean enthusiastically. “God’ll bless you for it.“ ”You think so?” “ Why, of course!” She exclaimed “ God wants all his children to do what’s right. I'm glad you think so…… Miz Lillian Jean.” When Cassie refers to Lillian as “Miz”, you can really tell she is trying to be kind. This probably shows Lillian Jean that Cassie has respect for her. Cassie is very brave to blackmail a white person, let alone beat her up.

Cassie was treated very unfairly because of her race at the mercantile in Strawberry. She was waiting for Mr. Barnett to fill her order and he filled the other white customers that came after her. She put aside anger and went up to Mr. Barnett, he did not take that very well and called her a very rude name. Cassie was then introduced on how white people treated African Americans. In the text it says,

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