Cry In Flannery O Connor's Roll Of Thunder

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Cassie was the main character in Roll of Thunder. She is a loving, smart, and a fighter. She cares for some people she is a fighter when it comes to racism.

First of all she was loving because, she loves big ma her brothers and sisters, as well as Uncle Hammer, stacey, and little man. Those are the main characters besides the wallaces and other non-important characters. But you can tell that she loves them because she cares about them, like at one part she tells one of her brothers and sisters to stop talking to a white kid because she knows that most of them are bad racist people. Like for example the wallaces they are bad because they pushed cassie off the road and MADE Cassie apologize to Lillian jean and Cassie HAD to say “I'm sorry Mrs.Lillian Jean.” She is smart because she knows what to say when she is being offended by racism. She is always aware of her surroundings, but the way that i would call it would be being prepared for the worst. But she is brave and very tough girl just like the rest of her family. But the good part of them is that cassie's family have a shotgun i believe. And they sometimes put a shotgun in the wagon under the seat, just in case the white men pass by
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I will try to remember how she was a fighter since the beginning. So she is a fighter because in the beginning white men passed by their house and cassie came out the window to check if they were going to her house and warn her family about it. Next situation was Lillian Jean because cassie had to apologize to her because Cassie ran into her and Jean was the daughter of one of the wallaces and they are the bad people. So the wallace came and pushed Cassie out on the road and cassie fell. And she did NOT want to apologize but big ma made her apologize. And close to the end she had to take little man and some other little kid back home which she was responsible for those

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