The book “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”, shows lots of people who put family first. One of those people are David Logan. David Logan cares a lot for his family. David Logan is Cassie’s dad and he is very wise. He cares a lot about his family and always knows how and when to do the right thing. He shows lots of responsibility in the book and always knows what to say. In the book, Cassie was very mad at Lillian jean and her dad for being jerks. But David say that she was mad and told her something very wise. He said “Cassie, there'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna wanna do but you'll have to do in this life just so you can survive. Now I don't like the idea of what Charlie Simms did to you no more than your Uncle Hammer, but I had to weigh the hurt of what happened to you to what could've happened if I went after him. If I'd've gone after Charlie Simms and …show more content…
given him a good thrashing like I felt like doing, the hurt to all of us would've been a whole lot more than the hurt you received, so I let it be. I don't like letting it be, but I can live with that decision”. This quote was a great quote from the book because it made Cassie understand why she should do stuff she doesn’t want to, and she learns its not who is right it’s what is right. In the book, Jeremy Simms goes to the Logan’s house and gives a flute to Stacey for Christmas.
Papa asks if Jeremy is Stacey’s friend, Stacey says kind of. Papa said, “Far as I’m concerned, friendship between black and white don’t mean that much ‘cause it usually ain’t on an equal basis. Right now you and Jeremy might get along fine, but in a few years he’ll think of himself as a man but you’ll probably still be a boy to him. And if he feels that way, he’ll turn on you in a minute.” This quote is very wise because, back then blacks and whites couldn’t work out. Another one of David’s great quotes is when he burned down his cotton field to save the life of T.J. He taught Cassie the weight of sacrifice. He said, “Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you'll never have to. That's important. You may not understand that now, but one day you will. Then you'll see”. This was a very big lesson on how family comes before anything else. Also it teaches Cassie to think through any move you
make. I hope that you see how much of a family man David Logan is, and how much he cares for his family and other families. It proves how wise and responsible he is. He always took time to think through any move he made. He always has a lesson to teach to his kids which is what makes him such a good family man and someone who cares.
David Hayden, the son of Wesley and Gail, was the most loyal character in the book. One day David noticed Uncle frank walking out of the house in the middle of the day. David was an intelligent young boy who knew that something was off. Later that day David heard the news that Marie Little Soldier had died and it was not of natural causes. Guilt comes with loyalty. When a person witnesses a scene that was unlawful they are put into the middle of a paradigm. In this case, David, who knew Uncle Frank killed Marie, felt he was the only witness. For a twelve year old boy, David knew himself very well. He was able to find that his loyalty was to Marie and the rest of the family. Although David knew where his loyalty was he was sure that not everyone did know. "I wasn't protecting her-I no longer had any illusions that I could play that role-but I stayed out of loyalty.”(149). In spite of the fact that David had already designated his Loyalty to his family, he felt his loyalty was tested during the investigation. Davids instincts told him that the right thing to do was superset his father, but with his mother encouraging him to abandon his father, David felt he should neglect his instincts. For example, when the four men were sent by his grandfather to retrieve Unc...
Cassie and her brother, Little Man, got a whipping because they were standing up for what they knew was right. “Sitting so close to the desk, I could see that the covers of the books, a motley read, were badly worn and that the gray edges of the pages had been marred by pencils, crayons, and ink.” (Taylor, 21) Cassie knew the books were very old books from the white schools. Cassie and her brother saw what the whites called them and they got mad about it, so the teacher, Miss. Crocker, gave them both a whippings. “The switch landed hard on Little Man’s upturned bottom. Cassie knew she would get in trouble for helping him, but she helped him anyway. “Everything. I poured out everything. About T.J.’s breaking into the mercantile with the Simses, about his coming in the night fleeing the Simses, about the coming of the night men and what they had done to the Averys. About Mr. Jamison and the threat of the men to come to the house to get him and Mr. Morrison.” (Taylor, 258) Cassie knew she would get in trouble for sneaking out to go help T.J. but she had to tell her dad what happened so T.J. wouldn’t die. “What happened to T.J. in the night I did not understand, but I knew that it would not pass. And I cried for those things which had happened in the night and would not pass. I cried for those things which had happened in the night and would not pass. I cried for T.J. For T.J. and the land.” (Taylor, 276) Cassie knew T.J. would die, but she knew she helped as much as she could. She knew she was
the things beyond his surrounding. He also gave David the confidence he needed to accept his
“They saved their lives… and treated [them] like family.” (page 161) Megan learned how to trust again and recognized that although they have met many malicious and egocentric people, there were still benevolent humans in the world. Also, her relationship with Ian is put to the test when Ian refused to leave and admitted that “Mitch [was] like a dad, [and he] made him feel important.” (page 157) She felt dishonoured, because she had been doing her best to take care of him for she desires to fulfill her promise to her mom. Her efforts were tremendous yet Ian did not appreciate her. In Spite of this challenge, it brings them closer together and Ian becomes more courteous to Megan. Lastly, “If [they] did not like it [in Lundbreck]... [they] were welcome back to their home.” (page 163) This comes straight from Sadie’s words and she assures Megan a backup plan. She never neglects to make them feel welcome and safe. Megan and Ian battle their onerous journey when Sadie and Mitch become the parents they have
He has extremely low confidence and belief in himself which is to be expected since he is in unfamiliar territory. His father tries to teach David the ways his grandfather taught him. David’s father is a responsible hunter, he only hunts what is legal and not threatening them, “Are we going to shoot him? […] We don’t have a permit” (Quammen 420). One of the steps to adulthood is learning to be responsible when others are not around, at the age of 11, David learns young but rather unfortunately in the end. Morals and values are an important step to adulthood, like Albert Einstein once said “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” Having a solid set of values and good morals could be the difference in many of David’s future choices, and his father set him on the right path from an early age even though their relationship had several issues. This starts the journey to David’s mental strength shown throughout the story because it brings the right versus wrong to the center of attention. Taking care of family, taking care of the environment and the animals that inhabit the environment and not taking life for granted as he might have before tragedy struck are all part of the journey to adulthood. David’s father was extremely bothered by the moose that had been shot many times by a small caliber hand gun and the scene showed no signs of an attack; a senseless killing of an animal that was left to rot in a pond. David’s father wanted to teach him that if you were going to kill an animal, at least take the meat and use what you can from the
By making that decision to send his daughter away based on his past experience with his sick sister and an assumption about how the future will be. This connects to the ethical topic of techniques of neutralization by Joseph Heath. He uses an excuse to prove that his decision wasn’t unethical when it really was. According to the Denial of responsibility technique, he believed that he had no choice in sending Phoebe away, David saw it as the only option because he was so focused on his past experience. He imagined what Phoebe’s life would be like and the likely toll she would have on the family.
“Its…it’s them again. They’s ridin’ tonight.” A night rider was someone who committed nocturnal and racist acts of violence against blacks. In the historical fiction, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor, racism is a highly active issue within the Logan’s daily lives. One example of specifically the Logan children dealing with racism is the Black vs. White schooling system which was considered “separate but equal”. However, they were not equal in many areas including transportation. The black kids had to walk to school, whereas the white kids were given a bus. The Logan kids made the decision to take action towards the bus in response to being constantly bothered by the bus. This action left the bus out of commission for
...ver World changed David’s character in a better way – even though he still is a kind, soft and caring guy that loves Senna and cares about her, he also has traits that a real mature man would have like leadership, strength, he keeps his promise to save his girlfriend and does everything to do it, he still has fears but isn’t ruled by them. This novel not only taught David and his friends a lesson but also readers, in this case I learned that people have to be together to achieve the results; if a person makes a promise he must keep it no matter what, and as Leo Buscaglia says: “The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.” humans need to love themselves just the way they are because each of us are unique and with our limitations we also have the advantages.
Consider the characters of Mary Logan in Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry and Gilbert Dawson in The Sexton's Hero showing how they reflect the theme of heroism. Mary Logan in "Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry" and Gilbert Dawson in The Sexton's Hero both have many similarities, all of which reflect the theme of heroism. Both have to fight against the expectations of the society they live in. Mary Logan lives in the USA in the 1930's. She is a young black woman living in a white mans world, she is a teacher and her family own land, which the white landowners are not very happy about.
Or have to fake to get information about something? Well Cassie pretended to be friends with Lillian Jean Simms. Cassie and Lillian were walking down the street and told Lillian she had a surprise in the woods for her. When they got in the woods Cassie dropped Lilian’s book on the ground because Cassie got tired of holding them. Lillian said she better pick them up so Cassie and Lillian got into a hair pulling fight. Lillian said she was going to tell everyone but on Page 181 Cassie said, “ You do that, Lillian Jean. You just do that and i’m gonna make sure all your fancy friends know how you keeps a secret.” This shows that Cassie really wasn’t Lillian’s friend. Cassie was using Lillian to find out about all of her
After these events, David came to the realization that they need to do something dramatic to not only grab their mother’s attention but to teach both of their parents a lesson. He wants his parents to feel regret. David suggest for one of his sisters to lay in the road to be hit by a car. The siblings argue back and forth about who should lay and the street. Amy chose Tiffany, the youngest and who had no concept of death to risk her life (Sedaris 90). Tiffany like many younger siblings is naïve, and would do anything for affection from her older siblings or
Granted that she was likely to be the last person to see Cassie Winchester alive, Sam’s brain holds vital information about the ongoing murder case. After the incident that leaves Sam with major amnesia and her best friend, Cassie, dead Sam is desperate to get to the answers hidden in her brain. The more she learns about her and Cassie’s friendship the more she questions why they were friends. Cassie seemed to bring out the worst in Sam. Before Cassie, she was a quiet, sweet girl and after she was inconsiderate and rude. Sam’s brother, Scott, even said, “You were a terror to everyone that knew you.”
In March 1865 MLK said in Selma, Alabama “If you can’t vote, your not free”. What does he mean by this? The novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is about a black family during the great depression in the 30’s struggling through racism, injustice, and keeping something prideful to them, their own land. Set in a small town in Mississippi in the deep south, the Logan’s constantly have other neighboring white sharecropping families and plantation owners continuously criticizing them and have a tend to be racist and unjust to them on a daily basis, but can’t do anything about it because of the laws at the time that said white people could very well be racist as much as they want because people just didn’t care about black people. The struggles they
This story took place after a couple of years of slavery. Cassie is a sister of Stacey, Little man, and Christopher-John. T.J. was Stacey’s best friend, but one day T.J. had got in trouble by the Simms and went to jail, because of a that he did. Once he went to jail he had a broken rib. But they were black so everything wasn’t easy for them. Cassie is the narrator of the story.
William Faulkner said, “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”. This is an example of the theme stand up for what is right, which is expressed in the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor. In this book this theme stand up for what is right is very important.