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Review Of The Book Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry: Courage's Stacey

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Courage 's Stacey Have you ever showed courage before. Will a lot of people in Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry did. Excepisly Stacey. Stacey is who I picked who showed lots of courage, and it is really hard to show courage in front of people. Stacey had to show courage when he took T.J back to his house in the middle of the night,When he pulled the idea to dig a ditch, and when he was being the man of the house when Papa ( David) wasn’t there. In chapter 11 In the middle of the night it was raining , and T.J knocked on the door. Cassie woke up and asked him what he was doing. Then Stacey woke up asking the same question. It turned out to be that R.W and Melvin had wiped T.J. across the chest, and R.W. and Melvin said if he telled anyone that

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