Cassie

“If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress” - Frederick Douglass In Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, the Logans, an African American family, are struggling with poverty and racial discrimination. They are treated differently than other people of different race and the book follows them through their journey. The story took place in the 1930s in which the Great Depression was in full swing and racial inequality plagued the South. The message of the story. The message of the…

just Destiny, Miranda, Alicia, and me. There was this girl named Cassie who thought she was better than everyone. Alicia was walking down the hallway, Cassie showed up and just slapped her in the face. Cassie got a hold of Miranda and became good friends with her. Cassie would always throw rocks at us, but it was really nothing. Miranda ended up moving away a couple of weeks later. That’s when the bullying actually started. Cassie would slap all of my friends in the hallway or recess, wherever…

got injured in the hallway made his way to the library but I heard a big boom when he came in like as he fell. Thats when they realize it wasn't a prank (Bernall). I ran in there to try to get them to run out. I ran in and I could see Seth holding Cassie in his arms and Sara holding Cassie's legs (Bernall). Dylan and Eric had made their way to the library. I dove behind the bookshelves and watch where Dylan and Eric walked. The two gunman kicked a chair hitting a arm and head of someone and…

The Real, the Bad, and the Ugly by Cassie Heidecker is an interesting example of analyzing the reality TV epidemic and in addition to the people that view it. The author starts out by listing things that go into a reality TV production and things that happen in real life in order to state that these are two different things despite the idea that reality TV is supposed to be “real”. The mundanity of real life is emphasised here vs. the idea that reality TV is scripted and has a lot of extra work…

‘Roll of thunder hear my cry, over the water bye and bye, ole man comin’ down the line, whip in hand to beat me down, But I ain’t gonna let him, Turn me ‘round. Tolerance will play a major role in the book ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY. As the character Cassie realising the truth of the real world, with the whites thinking that they’re better than them. In the book ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY, the author uses several literary techniques to help the reader understand the book, with better knowledge…

In the book Columbine by Dave Cullen the true story behind everything that happened was told. Columbine would definitely be classified as a non-fiction novel; throughout the story Mr. Cullen uses facts and research from sheriffs offices, newspapers, and many other sources. The author kept the suspense in the book by giving you little bits of information at a time for example, when he talks about Patrick Ireland going out the window but doesn’t tell you how everything turns out for him till later…

has the right amount of drama, romance, mystery, and action. The story involves a girl named Samantha, whom went missing alongside with her best friend, Cassie. She was found alone aswell with no memory of who she was and what happened to her or Cassie. She starts learning about herself, but learns that she doesn’t like who she was. She and Cassie were the perfect duo for havoc, they took the mean girl stereotype to a whole new level. As Sam progresses, she basically considers her amnesia as a…

Has Racism Changed in the United States since the 1900’s? Many of us have friends of different races and don’t think of how lucky we are to have them. Back in the 1930’s, it was very hard for friends who weren’t both the same race to stay friends. For example, Blacks weren’t accepted as people, more or less, slaves with more rights. As the years went by, around the 1950’s, 1960’s the Black community was getting their word across about equality. There is a change in segregation that starts to…

superior as the whites. In Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry we learned that when people of color are younger they don’t realize that they are mistreated because of the color of their skin. They know they are being mistreated, but they don’t know why. Cassie, a young black girl, was in line in front of whites at a store. She wasn't being waited on and she didn’t know why. She asked why she wasn’t being waited on, and the store clerk got angry at her. This is when she realized that things will always…

finally gone down, but definitely not gone. Racism back in the 1930s was very segregated and the whites felt like they were still a higher power than the blacks. In Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry there is a part of the book when the main character Cassie and Mama were going…