Courageous Cassie and Some Important Life Lessons Courage is an attribute that someone has when they stand up for what they believe in. In the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor, Cassie shows some acts of courage. Cassie faces some challenges and she handles them in different ways. Cassie shows courage by standing up for Little Man, volunteering to be splashed by the bus for revenge, and standing up to Lillian Jean. I think that she did the right thing when she stood up for Little Man. She was trying to make things right. How would you feel if you had a brother who got mad at something that offends him and he gets in trouble? What if you knew why he was mad? In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Cassie faces the same situation. Cassie was willing to get a beating for her brother, Little Man. Little Man looked at the book and asked for a new one, but when he opened the book, he was so mad that he threw it at the ground and stomped on it. But Cassie did not understand why he did this until she looked at the front page too. ““Miz Crocker”, I said, “I don’t want my book neither.””(Cassie, pg. 27) This shows that Cassie is willing to stand up for what's right, but sometimes the truth hurts. …show more content…
They got revenge alright. They got revenge about as sweet as it could get. Now Mr. Grimes the bus driver is furious. First, they miss lunch to dig a ditch to look like the road was washed away. Next, Cassie volunteered to get splashed for revenge, but Stacey said no. Finally, they hide behind some bushes and watch the bus get stuck. ““If I was to be walking out there when the bus comes, that old bus driver would be sure to speed up so’s he could splash me,” I suggested.” (Pg. 53) This proves that Cassie would be willing to get splashed for
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 at the bus, takes the blame for the cheat notes, and took T.J. home when he was injured.
“There was a sinking feeling in my stomach and I felt as if the world had turned itself upside down with me in it” (Page 129, Taylor). The author, Mildred Taylor, of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry has triumphed on writing the book while delivering the painful message of how African Americans were treated in the times of the Great Depression. Cassie has encountered many difficulties when having to accept the way she was treated outdoors along with all the other African-Americans in her society. In the opening, Cassie, along with her siblings, has to collaborate with the complications the bus has caused, and fearing the night men afterward for discovering what they have done. As greed, selfishness, and racism caused misfortune to the Logan family and their land, they stand strong with pride and dignity, willing to do whatever it takes to keep what is most important to their eyes. However, matters only get more and more complex when a lynch mob is determined to lynch Mr. David Logan, Mr. Morrison, and Mr. Jamison along with T.J. the night of the immense incident. Since the story is told through the eyes of a little girl, Cassie reveals all her pain as well as her perspective and point of view of life. As one can see, Mildred Taylor applied the conflict to the story ever so professionally. She did a phenomenal job using a variety of techniques to make many themes fit perfectly within the story; she additionally applied the theme to the conflicts. In addition, the story was recounted through the eyes of the main character, Cassie, which will soon lose her innocence. Cassie’s point of view had a great impact on the marvelous story.
Courage is an act of sacrifice that allows you to face danger without showing fear. A time he showed courage was when he threw the first punch at the rumble between the Greasers and Socs. He threw the first punch for pride, he threw it for loyalty, but he was courageous while doing so. As Ponyboy stated on page 142, "... He was ashamed to be on our side..." It took a lot of courage to throw the first punch being on a side you were ashamed of being on. He was ashamed because the person he punched was what he could've been and that crushed Darry. It would take a lot of courage to look after two adolescent boys while they are growing up. Darry could've gone to college, become a national football player and have a better life than what he had. Darry instead sacrificed that to keep his brothers together after the death of their parents. If Sodapop and Ponyboy could stay together, Darry would've gone to college. Darry was incredibly courageous to give that up for his brothers.
Based on the Merriam Webster dictionary, courage is defined as the,“mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.” In the play, the characters are tested and forced to make life or death decisions, with
"Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry" is about a young, black girl, Cassie Logan who tries to understand with her family, why the blacks are different to the whites. Cassie, the narrator leads us through all the disaster and trouble that her and her family have been through in relation with the white folks in Mississippi.
The story is set during an August morning at a funeral service for Frank Fowler, the youngest son of Matt Fowler (lead character in the story). In the opening paragraph, Frank’s older brother Steve says, "I should kill him” (Dubus 107), indicating some type of revenge. Matt indicates that he also wants revenge based on a conversation with his friend, Willis Trottier. Matt tells Trottier “Ruth would shoot him herself, if she thought she could hit him” (Dubus 109), implying that she would also seek revenge if she was able. Steve’s statement foreshadowed the mindset of revenge that the other characters have in the story.
Courage is an action that shows bravory.in the book roll of thunder hear my cry stacey showed courage by staying with his friend.stacey is the oldest kid in the logan family he feels like he has to lead his family.stacey had to show courage when two bad people was beating up his friend.
In the dictionary, courage means “the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery” (Dictionary.com). Atticus shows he values courage frequently throughout the novel. When Scout begins to hear rude things about Atticus at school, he explains to her "to make the best of things, and of the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down" (Lee 139). Atticus was trying to explain to Scout that it is more important to stand up for what one believes in, even if it means standing against one’s friends. That is courage! This
To show courage you have to try to do the best you can do whether you can do it or not.In the book roll of thunder hear my cry.Mildred D Taylor uses Cassie Logan as an example of a young girl who is a very strong girl who is very courageous and strong.Cassie shows courage when she stood up for Little man for when he did not like the condition of the book that he got,she stood up to Lillian Jean, and she told mr Barnett he should have waited for them and the other people.All these actions that she faced tells us that sher is a very outspoken to to tell mr Barnett that he could have waited.To shows that she cares she cried for tj and the land.
All it takes is an angry mob of people to destroy ones life. In the story Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, a black family has to wrongfully face discrimination and unfairness everyday in small town Strawberry, Mississippi. One night, Papa is forced to make a life or death decision by starting a wildfire. The fire was started on his cotton field. This fire helped to prevent the hanging of three people, T.J., Mr. Morrison, and Papa. It is important to keep it a secret that he started the fire, or terrible things will happen to him. He was right to start the fire because it did the unthinkable at the time: he got the blacks and whites to work together.
This was it, Catherine was up next to go on stage and perform a song for her whole school. She had tried to do perform many times before but her stage fright always got the best of her, but that wasn’t going to be the case today. Catherine gathered up all of her courage and went on stage nailing her performance. Without courage Catherine would have never been able to accomplish one of her largest goals. COurage is a universal attribute that can be expressed in many different ways. As seen in both To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Help by Kathryn stockett, courage is when someone persists on following through no matter how many odds are stacked against them.
In chapter 5 -7 of the book Roll Of Thunder Hear Me Cry there is a lot of drama and problems being caused that are causing many opportunities to show why the theme of the book could be peace is better than revenge. In chapter 5 mama and cassie go to strawberry so mama could go to the store but cassie went and when she did that she was asking for problems. They go into a store and she gets kicked out but when she leaves she has a surprise waiting on her lilien jean and her dad were there. They instantly cause drama by pushing cassie into the road
Have you ever been mistreated for being just you? Back in the 1930’s there was a Black household named the Logans, who all worked hard in order to pay taxes, their loan to the bank and to just survive daily life. This household faces many obstacles every day, but they never stop being a family and trying to protect what is theirs. “You ain’t never had to live on nobody’s place but your own and as I live and the family survives, you’ll never have to,” Papa tells Cassie (Taylor 7). Students in middle school should read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor because it teaches life lessons, demonstrates hardships Blacks faced and is inspirational.
What does it mean to be courageous? The dictionary definition of courage is “The quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery”. The dictionary says to enable the mind to face a danger, for example, a 21-year old named Tommy had just came out of a burning building and he realizes his 10-year old sister is still inside. Tommy doesn’t wait for firemen to come, he gets the courage himself to save his sister even though he can get hurt or killed. This story talks about an act of courage the character gets and saves his sister’s life by putting himself at risk. To be courageous means to stand up for your friends or to stand up for yourself.
The dictionary definition of courage is bravery or boldness. In the set texts of Little Women and Treasure Island, courage is defined through the interaction of the characters, the situation and their reactions to it. Thus, there are different aspects of courage explored throughout the texts resulting in either in physical or psychological pain or a mixture to the characters.