ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY

CASSIE

• Cassie is the main character and the first person narrator.
• A first person narrator is the main character telling the story from only their veiw.
• "But, mama, that Lillian Jean ain't got the brains of a flea"! - pg. 126.

SETTING, TIME, AND PLACE

• The Logans live in Spokane County, Mississippi.
• They live in a small house in a cotton field, during segregation.
• The story takes place in 1933 during the Great Depression in the winter.

PLOT : segregation is visible

• Cassie and her brothers dig a hole and fill it with water so the school bus gets stuck. - pg: 52-58 (digital book)
• Little man gets mad at the dirty old text book he is given and jumps on it. Pg: 29 (digital book)

THEME

• Racism is horrible.
• One example of this is when "miss" Lillian gene along with her father, push cassie off of the sidewalk pg: 108-111 (digital book).
• A second example of this is when Mr. Morrison tells about his family and how they died. Pg: 138- 139 (digital book).

Lynching Statistics 1882-1968