Chapter Questions
How many people are in Cassie's family?
8. Cassie, Big Ma, Mama, Stacey, Christopher-John, Uncle Hammer, Little Man, Papa.
What does amiably mean
Very Friendly.
Who wrote Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry?
Mildred D. Taylor
"'But Mama, it ain't fair. I didn't do nothin' to that confounded Lillian Jean.'"
"Mr. Granger stood to go, a smile creeping smugly over his lips as if he knew a secret but refused to tell."
Foreshadowing
Where does Papa work at.
He works at a railroad.
pondered
thought about
TJ
"Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you never have too."
Papa
Miss Crocker tells Mama that she is "Biting the hand that feeds you."
Who bumps into Cassie and makes her apologize to her.
Lillian Jean
candidly
honestly
Oblivious
unaware
"Got me better friends than ya'll! They give me things and treat me like I'm a man... and they white too..."
TJ
Soon the thunder rolled across the sky, and the rain fell like hail upon our bent heads
Why does RW and Melvin attack TJ
They had just killed a man and TJ threatened to tell people about it.
haggard
weary looking
In the ripening fields the drying cotton and corn stretched tiredly skyward awaiting the coolness of a rain that occasionally threatened but did not come, and the land took on a baked, brown look.
Personification
"Biting the hand that feeds you."
Miss Crocker.
"(TJ was) looking longingly at the gun. 'Sure wish I could jus' hold it, jus' once'"
Foreshadowing
Why does Uncle Hammer blow up at Stacey?
Stacey had given away his coat to T.J.
Condescending
pretending one is equal to a supposed inferior
"' But, Papa, they h-hurt Claude!'"
Christopher-John
Why don't you leave us alone? How come you always hanging round us anyway?"
Stacey
"But my momma and daddy they love each other and they loved us children, and that Christmas they fought them demons out of hell..."
Metaphor