To have her revenge on the white girl she had to learn the part of self-preservation; when to keep quiet about what she knows and how to make it inconvenient for her enemies to get the best of her.
Cassie also learns something about friendship versus merely using someone. However, she is able to see that T. In other words, his friendship can be bought, and those who buy it only use it for their own means.
However, the result is loneliness and a not so secret longing to be with the people who really care about him. By the. Morrison Uncle Hammer T. Avery The Wallaces Charlie Simms. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of every Shakespeare play.
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The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. Cassie, who attends fourth grade at a black school in the South, narrates the story in first person. Through her eyes, the reader sees the injustices of racism firsthand. Cassie has a short temper and has trouble keeping her thoughts to herself, which sometimes gets her and her family into trouble. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:.
Chapter 1 Quotes. Related Themes: Storytelling and Language. Page Number and Citation : 4 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Related Symbols: Land. Related Themes: Land as Independence. Page Number and Citation : 6 Cite this Quote. Related Characters: Cassie Logan speaker , Papa speaker.
Page Number and Citation : 7 Cite this Quote. Related Symbols: Modes of Transportation. Related Themes: Racism.
Page Number and Citation : 13 Cite this Quote. Related Characters: Cassie Logan speaker. Related Themes: Injustice and Dignity. Page Number and Citation : 15 Cite this Quote.
Chapter 2 Quotes. Avery , Mr. She has medical knowledge and is often called upon to tend those injured by white violence, including the Berrys. She is very religious and is a source of comfort to Cassie who shares a room and bed with her.
Hammer is Big Ma's only living son other than Papa. He lives in the North and drives a Packard like Mr. Granger does. He visits the Logans during the Christmas season and brings gifts. He has a strong temper and wants to attack Charlie Simms after his bad treatment of Cassie. Ultimately, he quells his temper when he must and sells his Packard in order to protect the land, bringing the money to his brother by hand and leaving before his presence can fuel more tensions.
Morrison is an extremely big and strong older man whom Papa brings home from the railroad. Morrison got in a fight with some white men and was fired from the railroad. He helps to protect the Logans, watching outside their house at night, and stays on with the family even after he injured the Wallaces when they attacked Papa. His own family was brutally murdered by a lynch mob during Reconstruction and he says that the Logans are like family to him.
An emaciated-looking, thirteen-year-old boy, TJ is foolish but provides a source of information about racial incidents for the Logan children. He is repeating the seventh grade, cheats on tests, gets Mama fired, and hangs out at the Wallace store which ultimately loses him Stacey's friendship. His "friendship" with the older, white Simms brothers leads him to commit a crime and nearly causes him to be lynched.
He is the catalyst for an eruption of racial tension and at the end will most likely be sent to a chain gang for a murder that the Simmses committed. TJ's younger brother does not say much but is also a friend to the Logans. He is more afraid of TJ than of their mother and generally does what his brother tells him to do. He is beaten by the mob when they come for his brother.
TJ and Claude's father is a sharecropper on Harlan Granger's land. He participates in the boycott of the Wallace store but backs out when Granger threatens to kick him off the land. He is small and sickly and can't control TJ. He too is treated violently when the mob comes for his son. TJ and Claude's mother has little control over her sons. When she tries to protect her son from the mob, she is thrown back against her house.
Jeremy is a towheaded white boy, probably about eleven, who wants to be friends with Stacey. While the other white children ride the bus, he always walks to school. He is whipped by his father for associating with the Logans. He dislikes his older brothers and sleeps in a treehouse to get away from his family. Aged twelve or thirteen, Lillian Jean is Jeremy's older sister. She has long blond hair, which Cassie makes use of when fighting her.
She is shrill and bossy. Her father forces Cassie to call her "Miz Lillian Jean" and apologize after bumping into her in Strawberry.
Jeremy and Lillian Jean's older brothers are about eighteen or nineteen years old. They pretend to be friends with TJ, who steals things for them, and for whom they buy things. When he helps them break into the Barnett Mercantile to steal a gun, they kill Mr. Barnett and injure Mrs. Afterward, they beat TJ and lead the mob that breaks into the Avery house and tries to hang him.
The father of the Simms family is a "mean-looking man, red in the face and bearded. He is not involved in the attack on the Avery house, but is woken up by Jeremy who smells smoke from the tree-house. Mini Essays Suggested Essay Topics. Mildred D. Cassie Logan The narrator and protagonist.
Stacey Logan A thirteen-year-old boy, Stacey is the oldest of the Logan children. Christopher-John A cheerful seven-year-old, Christopher-John is the second youngest of the Logan children.
Papa David Logan Cassie's father. Mama Mary Logan Cassie's mother, a schoolteacher. Uncle Hammer Papa's brother, Hammer lives in Chicago.
He has a short temper. Big Ma Caroline Logan Papa's mother. A woman of sixty, she runs the Logan farm. Avery A trouble-making friend of Stacey's.
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