Character List
Cassie Logan: Ten years old, Cassie is the first-person narrator of the novel. She is the second oldest and only girl in her family. Cassie is intelligent, outspoken, and self-confident, even when those qualities threaten to get her in trouble for speaking her mind in a white-dominated world or simply with her teacher at school. She spends most of her time with her three brothers, who are her confidants and playmates, and worships her father. Over the course of the novel, Cassie comes to experience racism directed at her and learns the real dangers of being black in the 1930s South. At the beginning of the novel, Cassie is outspoken, proud of herself and her race but unaware of the consequences of that outspokenness in her society. From various sources - her teacher, a prejudiced white girl and her cruel father, a prejudiced store owner - she experiences racism directly. She also is witness to the real violence and injustice of the South - becoming aware of......
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Approximate Pages: 82 (260 words per double-spaced page) |