Carolyn Maul is compassionate, strong, Intelligent, brave, and positive. Firstly, Carolyn shows compassion by caring for others more than herself, which is presented in Chapter 4, during the bombing of the church, Carolyn can only think about where her brothers are at, and the pain other people that have to strive to survive the bombing. Secondly, Carolyn has emotional strength because she can calmly watch a love one die in front of her without breaking apart. To illustrate, she witnesses her favorite grandma, Grandma Lessie, die in front of her, which is explained in chapter 3. Thirdly, she exemplifies intelligence because of her vocabulary, also, keep in mind that during the Civil Rights movement whites didn’t give blacks a chance to learn.
