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Cassie Logan Thesis

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This is a meaningful and sad story of a black family living in Mississippi during the 1930’s, being treated unfairly. In this book Mildred D. Taylor shows what it was like to be black during the 1930’s from her own family’s experiences. Cassie Logan is not a normal 9 year old girl. She is very confident in herself which leads to trouble because she will do bad things with her confidence. She is not afraid to stand up for something that is wrong, but some people who don’t agree with her threaten her and her family during this book. Since this book takes place during the 1930’s in Mississippi, where blacks were not treated fairly, meaning Cassie and her family were not treated fairly. Cassie was a nosy person who wanted to know everything about …show more content…

These events include the Logan family fighting for their lives. The Logans own 200 acres of beautiful land with a cotton field, which makes them most of their money. They do not want to lose this land, but there is a man named Harlan Granger who wants this land. The Logans must find ways to make more money. T.J. is one of Cassie’s and her three brothers friends, but he just gets them into trouble. There is also a bunch of boys who dislike the Logans, trying to get the Logans into trouble. They even got the school board to fire Mama Logan from teaching, this made them not gain the money they needed to keep the land. The Logans are very smart though, they told all their friends to boycott this one business who caused harm to the black people. The naughty boys later hurt Papa Logan while he is coming back from Strawberry, Mississippi. This hurts the family a lot because Papa can’t work anymore. One night the Wallaces, who own the store, went out to T.J.’s families house, trying to kill T.J. and his family. Cassie’s older brother, Stacey, finds out about this and tries to help. But then all of sudden, when a bunch of people were fighting at T.J.’s house after the murder of Mr. Barnett, a fire breaks out in the Logan’s field. Everybody forgets the fight and tries to put out the fire. It turns out Papa Logan started the fire to stop the fighting. After all of this, T.J. will go to jail for murdering Mr. Barnett. This book did not have a good

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