Cassie is the first-person storyteller of the narrative. Cassie is an intelligent. outspoken. and self-assured nine twelvemonth old miss. even when those qualities threaten to acquire her in problem for talking her head in a white-dominated universe. She is mature in respect to her sense of morality but she is naif. She does non understand the deepness and inhuman treatment of the racism around her. Even though Cassie is younger than Stacy. she is invariably doing certain he is safe and all right. Cassie dislikes T. J. because of his lying personality and thinks he is a bad influence on Stacy.
However she shortly learns that even though he is bad individual. Stacy still considered him a friend. Since she is black she experiences racism and learns the existent dangers of being black in the South in the 1930s. She is witness to the force and unfairness of the South as she becomes cognizant of lynching. of the curtailment of her male parent and mother’s freedom. and of the terrible penalties meted out to inkinesss accused of wrongdoing. Cassie grows up over the class of the twelvemonth. learns some sad truths. and experiences the strength and love of her household.
Stacey Logan Stacey is Cassie’s older brother. As the oldest kid. he bosses his brothers and sister about and is the leader of their little group. He is courageous and compassionate. but non ever wise. Stacey is best friends with T. J. Avery. Since he is 12 old ages old he frequently tries to work out his ain jobs of his ain. Stacey has lessons to larn nevertheless. he is sensitive about being teased by older friends and allows T. J. to speak him out of the coat given to him by Uncle Hammer.
The coat does non look bad on him. but T. J. wants it for himself. The call on the carpeting given to him by Mr. Morrison was worse than any punishment his female parent could hold inflicted as it accuses him of failing and of being more foolish than the sap who took advantage of him. Stacey learns rapidly. nevertheless. and does non do the same error when T. J. tries to rib him about the handmade flute Jeremy gives him for Christmas Stacey matures in his apprehension of friendly relationship. He and T. J. have ever been friends. but when T. J. cheats a 2nd clip. gets Mary Logan fired. and so turns to white male childs for his friends. Stacey refuses to hold anything more to make with him.
However. he remains concerned about him and asks about him from other male childs who have seen him. He besides keeps to himself his sentiment about the white male child Jeremy Simms’ friendly relationship. Jeremy shows himself to be a friend even when Stacey seems ailment at easiness about accepting it. Stacey continues his friendly relationship with Jeremy even though he keeps it subdued. Besides. in maintaining the flute. but seting it off. it seems as though he may be waiting to happen out if his male parent is right in stating that Oklahoman or subsequently Jeremy will turn on him. In the terminal. Stacey has seen illustrations of “doing what you have to. He saw Mr. Morrison beat the Sir william wallaces under fortunes when the Sir william wallaces could non revenge. and he saw his male parent happen a manner to overthrow white purposes without allowing them cognize who had done it. He runs into the forests to vent his heartache over his friend. As with Cassie. the incident will go forth him a changed male child. Clayton Chester “Little Man” Logan The youngest boy of Mary and David Logan. “Little Man” is sometimes the most mature. He is seldom afraid of danger and loves escapade.
He dislikes inhuman treatment and lies- one ground why he hates T. J. He is besides really neat ; he worries invariably about his apparels and going dirty. Since he is merely Six old ages old. he does non cognize much about the adversities of black people by the Whites. This is shown on his first twenty-four hours of school when he asked why the coach didn’t halt for them. Upon his reaching to school. he becomes ferocious when he realizes that the books they had received were old and lacerate books disposed by the white kids when they were finished utilizing them. Over clip. he learns more about inhuman treatment and even more grounds to dislike it.
Christopher-John Logan At age seven. Christopher-John is a short male child who is the quietest Logan sibling. He prefers to remain safe at place most of the clip. and he loves to eat. However. he does non wish to be left behind. so he frequently goes on escapades merely for that ground. He often reminds the other kids that they are interrupting their parents’ regulations. This behaviour is displayed when Mary and “Big Ma” told the kids to remain indoors and off from the fire. In the forenoon. after the fire had been extinguished. he refused to go forth the house even though the fire was gone. David “Papa” Logan
A tall. fine-looking adult male. Papa is Large Ma’s 2nd youngest boy. He works from the terminal of seting until Christmas on the railway in order to pay for his land. He was raised on the same farm on which his household now lives. Ready to stand up for himself and his household. he does what he needs to last. He risks his life to establish a boycott against the Wallaces. shop proprietors who burned a black adult male to decease. His leg is broken and he is shot at in requital for the boycott. He besides comes near to losing his land when the bank. influenced by Mr. Granger. calls in the note on it in.
He is willing to utilize his scattergun to protect TJ but finally uses his inventiveness to halt the lynch rabble and salvage TJ’s life. even though his scheme loses him a one-fourth of his ain cotton. Papa believes that his household and the land must be protected at all costs. Mary “Mama” Logan Mary Logan is a 33 twelvemonth old adult female from the Delta ; Mama went to high school in Jackson and was sent to the Crandon Teacher School by her tenant-farmer male parent. Her male parent died during her concluding twelvemonth in teacher school. and she married Papa when she was 19. She has taught at the Great Faith School for 14 old ages. and has four kids of her ain.
Her strong pride in her race and her sense of justness lead her to paste over the inside screens of the textbook. where the “very poor” status of the book is listed following to the race of the black pupils. This outspokenness consequences in her being fired by the white school board. Though she tries to maintain narratives of the force and unfairness about them from her kids. she finally can non screen them from the truth. She is committed to protecting her household. and worries they will be hurt. Hammer Logan Hammer is Big Ma’s merely populating boy other than Papa.
He lives in Chicago and drives a Packard like Mr. Granger does. He visits the Logans during the Christmas season and brings gifts. He has a strong pique and wants to assail Charlie Simms after his bad intervention of Cassie. Ultimately. he quells his pique when he must and sells his Packard in order to protect the land. conveying the money to his brother by manus and go forthing before his presence can fuel more tensenesss. Hammer would instead merely kill the white people who harass and attack him than attempt to ground with them. He doesn’t think that they deserve compassion. since they have given him none.
Caroline “Big Ma” Logan Papa’s female parent is a adult female in her 1960ss. She holds the title to the Logan land. which was bought by her late hubby. Paul Edward. She has worked the land since she was 18. and loves it every bit much as her dead hubby did. She married him when she was 18. and they raised their six kids. merely two of whom survived. on the four hundred estates of land that he bought between 1887 and 1918. Large Ma is the voice of history in the book and Tells narratives about the yesteryear to Cassie. Her love of the land leads her to subscribe it over to her two boies to protect it from Harlan Granger.
She has medical cognition and is frequently called upon to be given those injured by white force. including the Berrys. She is really spiritual and is a beginning of comfort to Cassie who portions a room and bed with her. TJ Avery T. J. is the boy of the sharecrop farmer who farms portion of the Granger land which adjoins the Logan land. He is a weak character who wants to be treated as a adult male. He wants to “count” in a society where his colour makes him 2nd category. He likes to experience of import. a characteristic portrayed early in the narrative when he visits the Logans with intelligence he thinks they have non yet received and makes a major undertaking out of the relation.
He tries to move large by badgering the younger kids and by seeking to speak them into things their parents have forbidden. T. J. does non hold a high sense of unity. He sees nil incorrect with rip offing on a trial or lying to Stacey to acquire his new coat off from him. He uses his friends the same manner the Simms usage him subsequently on. He is besides fleeceable. mensurating friendly relationship in footings of how much he can acquire. He does non understand that his atrocious solitariness is a direct consequence of his maltreatment of his existent friends. In T. J. ’s defence. regardless of his failing. he is non merely an “evil” character. He is the victim of fortunes.
The really fact that the Logans do hold their ain land and his male parent does non may actuate him to seek to demo that he is merely every bit good as they are even though they have non flaunted their ain place. He truly has nil. and his male parent is at the clemency of landholders who can take what little he does hold any clip he displeases them. Geting things through misrepresentation and perfidy is non dishonourable to him every bit long as he doesn’t acquire caught. Furthermore. acquiring caught does non learn him that what he did was incorrect. It merely proves to him that he has to be cleverer the following clip as in the school rip offing incidents.
Furthermore. when faced with the effects of his behaviour. his immediate reaction is to happen person else to fault. He does non recognize that that is precisely what the Whites around him are making to the black community. It is dry that he who is guilty of multiple small grudges and misrepresentations is really guiltless when the existent offense occurs-that is. inexperienced person of everything except leting himself to be led. Kaleb. Thurston. and Dewberry Wallace These three white brothers own the Wallace shop. the lone shop in town. They sell alcohol illicitly and host a room where black adolescents dance.
The shop is on Granger belongings. doing it profitable for Harlan Granger every bit good as the Wallaces. The Wallaces burn the three black Berry work forces. killing one and badly wounding the other two. after intoxicated white work forces accuse John Henry Berry of chat uping with a white adult female. When the Logans arrange a boycott on their shop. the Wallaces effort to scupper Papa on the manner back from the market in Vicksburg. Mr. Morrison beats up two of the Sir william wallaces severely. about interrupting Dewberry’s back and puting up Thurston for a few hebdomads every bit good.
The Logans can non press charges against the Sir william wallaces because to make so might ensue in Mr. Morrison acquiring put on the concatenation pack or worse. The Wallaces are involved on the onslaught on Roll of Thunder. Hear My Cry Characters Cassie Logan Cassie is the first-person storyteller of the narrative. Cassie is an intelligent. outspoken. and self-assured nine twelvemonth old miss. even when those qualities threaten to acquire her in problem for talking her head in a white-dominated universe. She is mature in respect to her sense of morality but she is naif. She does non understand the deepness and inhuman treatment of the racism around her. Even though Cassie is younger than Stacy. she is invariably doing certain he is safe and O.K. .
Cassie disfavors T. J. because of his lying personality and thinks he is a bad influence on Stacy. However she shortly learns that even though he is bad individual. Stacy still considered him a friend. Since she is black she experiences racism and learns the existent dangers of being black in the South in the 1930s. She is witness to the force and unfairness of the South as she becomes cognizant of lynching. of the curtailment of her male parent and mother’s freedom. and of the terrible penalties meted out to inkinesss accused of wrongdoing. Cassie grows up over the class of the twelvemonth. learns some sad truths. and experiences the strength and love of her household.
Stacey Logan Stacey is Cassie’s older brother. As the oldest kid. he bosses his brothers and sister about and is the leader of their little group. He is courageous and compassionate. but non ever wise. Stacey is best friends with T. J. Avery. Since he is 12 old ages old he frequently tries to work out his ain jobs of his ain. Stacey has lessons to larn nevertheless. he is sensitive about being teased by older friends and allows T. J. to speak him out of the coat given to him by Uncle Hammer.
The coat does non look bad on him. but T. J. wants it for himself. The call on the carpeting given to him by Mr. Morrison was worse than any punishment his female parent could hold inflicted as it accuses him of failing and of being more foolish than the sap who took advantage of him. Stacey learns rapidly. nevertheless. and does non do the same error when T. J. tries to rib him about the handmade flute Jeremy gives him for Christmas Stacey matures in his apprehension of friendly relationship. He and T. J. have ever been friends. but when T. J. cheats a 2nd clip. gets Mary Logan fired. and so turns to white male childs for his friends. Stacey refuses to hold anything more to make with him.
However. he remains concerned about him and asks about him from other male childs who have seen him. He besides keeps to himself his sentiment about the white male child Jeremy Simms’ friendly relationship. Jeremy shows himself to be a friend even when Stacey seems ailment at easiness about accepting it. Stacey continues his friendly relationship with Jeremy even though he keeps it subdued. Besides. in maintaining the flute. but seting it off. it seems as though he may be waiting to happen out if his male parent is right in stating that Oklahoman or subsequently Jeremy will turn on him. In the terminal. Stacey has seen illustrations of “doing what you have to. He saw Mr. Morrison beat the Sir william wallaces under fortunes when the Sir william wallaces could non revenge. and he saw his male parent happen a manner to overthrow white purposes without allowing them cognize who had done it. He runs into the forests to vent his heartache over his friend. As with Cassie. the incident will go forth him a changed male child.
Clayton Chester “Little Man” Logan The youngest boy of Mary and David Logan. “Little Man” is sometimes the most mature. He is seldom afraid of danger and loves escapade. He dislikes inhuman treatment and lies- one ground why he hates T. J. He is besides really neat ; he worries invariably about his apparels and going dirty. Since he is merely Six old ages old. he does non cognize much about the adversities of black people by the Whites. This is shown on his first twenty-four hours of school when he asked why the coach didn’t halt for them. Upon his reaching to school. he becomes ferocious when he realizes that the books they had received were old and lacerate books disposed by the white kids when they were finished utilizing them. Over clip. he learns more about inhuman treatment and even more grounds to dislike it.
Christopher-John Logan At age seven. Christopher-John is a short male child who is the quietest Logan sibling. He prefers to remain safe at place most of the clip. and he loves to eat. However. he does non wish to be left behind. so he frequently goes on escapades merely for that ground. He often reminds the other kids that they are interrupting their parents’ regulations. This behaviour is displayed when Mary and “Big Ma” told the kids to remain indoors and off from the fire. In the forenoon. after the fire had been extinguished. he refused to go forth the house even though the fire was gone.
