Innocence In Mildred Taylor's Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry

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Throughout chapter five of Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry the main character, Cassie Logan, a member of a black family in 1933, shows a lot of innocence and misunderstanding of the world around her.
Cassie’s journey towards revealing her innocence begins with a trip to Strawberry, a town relatively far from where she lives. Cassie is going there with her grandmother and brother, along with her brothers ‘friend’ to sell some things at a little market area. Cassie first shows a confused innocence. Cassie is so confused about why her grandmother sets up her wagon in the back of the selling area. She is so innocent that she even points it out and urges her grandmother to move forward. It is then that her grandmother points out that that is where white people are and they should stay where they are. Cassie is still confused but eventually resides to silence. This moment is a good introduction to show Cassie’s innocence because it isn’t too major yet shows the complete and utter lack of understanding. Cassie believes everyone deserves an equal and fair chance to share their goods, she is of course mistaken. At this point in time only white people had any entitlement at all, and black people were given the leftovers. From there, Cassie’s perception of equality plummets. This …show more content…

Cassie is unaware of the dangers of life. When in strawberry, Cassie, Tj, and Stacey are in a store picking up things for TJ. TJ stops to observe a nice gun. He says he would like it for protection, and exclaims “Protection of what!” and makes a comment about rattlesnakes, TJ responds with a “There's other things a body needs protectin' from more than a rattlesnake“. Cassie realizes nothing. She is so blatantly ignorant about what TJ is talking about. She thinks he must just like the gun, she doesn’t realize that he intends to use it on other people if necessary . This respect for life that Cassie has could be very

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