Cassie

It was told in Cassie Logan’s point-of-view, who was 9 years old and the only daughter of the family. The Logan Family first finds out about a burning of an African American man by a group of white people. From then on, the story progresses as Cassie soon discovers the cold truth of racism and racial segregation in Southern America during that time. After reading the book, I have found three things that are worth mentioning. Firstly, I found it interesting how Taylor used Cassie as the…

This a book about Cassie Bernall, told through her mother and other sources. Mrs. Bernall talks about Cassie’s life and her religious faith, which led to her death. She also talks about how Cassie has a lasting affect on their family and how she help form them into the people they are today. On page 60, her mother says, “Needless to say, our meeting at the sheriff's office made us more determined than ever to protect Cassie from any influence that would pull her away from…

protagonist in the book is Lia. She suffers from depression and anorexia. she struggles to kept her weight low and at the same time being depressed after her best friend died. as the story gets deeper her best friend, Cassie becomes the antagonist. Lia doesn't appreciate the presences of Cassie, lia starts to feel surrounded by her and can’t stand being near her. In this story Lia characterization is very revealing to the reader. “I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into…

forward to attending. I have actually already met the girl, Cassie, who was the instructor for our class; we met at orientation back in the beginning of June. I just so happened to sit with her and her friend at lunch and we clicked from there. Orientation day reminded me so much of my first day at a new school; I had to be prejudice and judge people on their appearance to rationalize if they looked “nice” enough to sit with. Turns out, Cassie is very smart and sweet. I thought her…

and triumph resonated not only with dancers in the audience, but also with the general population, says dancer Leslie Woodies, who played Cassie in the New York Shakespeare Festival production. “I remember people would wait 30 or more minutes by the stage door to tell us their stories,” she says. “Even years later, when I was in On Your Toes, a woman who read Cassie in my bio waited to tell me that after watching A Chorus Line, she found the courage to leave an abusive husband. The production…

crowded that no room to swing fall. Sleep here on the ground, having spread a little straw. The diet is very meager: after exhausting labor in the cotton harvest - only one cake of cornmeal. Once the cotton harvest leaves beautiful, stately quadroon Cassie, the mistress of the owner. It works very quickly, helping the weak and lagging. Tom is also divided harvested cotton - Lucy, mulatto patient. In the evening, the owner, seeing the good work Tom, decides to appoint his supervisor and to start…

Deficiency Background: Gene and Cassie Peterson live with their two children, Michael and Rose, in New York City where Gene works for a large corporation. Cassie’s father, Jared, smoked most of his life and recently passed away from complications of severe emphysema. He was known to have Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, or AAT deficiency. At her father’s funeral, Cassie’s mother, Margaret, suggested that Cassie have herself, Michael, and Rose tested for AAT deficiency. Cassie and Rose’s tests…

mostly because of death. Yancey left out parents because biological parents gave him up for adoption as a baby. He connected his feeling of being alone to the book and left all the characters feeling the same way he feels toward his long lost parents. Cassie, whose father was shot in front of her,…

Mama explains to Cassie the things that blacks did to be seen as human beings. Mama said " 'The people who were making money bringing slaves from Africa preached that black people weren't really people like white people, so slavery was all right.' " (Taylor 127) The quote from the book is showing that blacks were not seen as human beings like whites were. The explanation Mama gave Cassie was for her to understand that her great grandparents had to go…

Davis Elementary, an all-white school. I felt anxious about starting a new school especially one where Stacey and I would be the first colored kids to go there. I still thought about T.J in that horrible chain gang and what they would do to him. “Cassie you’d better get dressed the bus gonna be here soon,” said Stacey. The tall, yellow bus pulled at the side of the curb and the doors opened. Faces of disgust peered down at us through the slightly tinted window. Stacey took no notice of them and…