Characters
This is the main character who narrates the story.
Who is Cassie Logan?
This was the setting of the book, described in the exposition of the story.
What is a farm in Mississippi in the 1930's?
This is the mood/tone set at the beginning of the book when it states: "It seemed to me that showing up at school on a bright August-like October morning made for running the cool forest trails and wading barefoot in the forest bond was concession enough; Sunday clothing was asking too much." (4).
What is innocent, peaceful, or playful?
This symbol represented coming danger in the novel.
What is storms?
This is the conflict between the Logans and Harlan Granger.
What is Harlan Granger wants the Logan land?
Who is T.J. Avery?
This event was the inciting incident that started the rising action of the plot.
This is the mood/tone set by this passage: " Finally T.J. said 'Okay. See, them Berry's burnin' wasn't no accident. Some white men took a match to 'em.'
'Y-you mean just lit 'em up like a piece of wood?' stammered Christopher-John, his eyes growing big with disbelief."
What is fearful, tense, foreboding?
What is the car?
This is the internal conflict Cassie is dealing with.
What is Cassie struggles with her anger and her need to fight against racial injustice while also needing to endure/survive it.
This character cares for his land, his family, and holds strong in a conflict.
Who is David Logan (Papa)?
These are three types of resistance the Logan family used to fight racial injustice in the story.
What are the store boycott, the destruction of the school bus, pasting over the school books, refusing to use the books, protecting the land, supporting families that were attacked, becoming successful, using legal means, making sacrifices, looking them in the eye, refusing to move out of the way, talking back to them at the store, standing up to Lillian Jean ect. ?
This is an example of a shift from childhood innocence to adult realities.
What is when Cassie is exposed to Jim Crow laws in Strawberry? or when she grieves for T.J. and the land? Others can be used.
This symbol represented independence and family history.
What is the land?
This is the internal conflict that Stacey has throughout the novel.
What is Stacey is trying learning to grown up and facing reality while still remaining true to himself?
This character wants the Logan land and is one of the antagonists of the story.
This is the climax of the story.
This is an example of a shift from hopeful/proud to apprehensive/threatening.
What is going from describing holiday feasts and memories to being aware of the night riders? (Other examples can be used).
This symbol represents the division between the Logan and Granger land.
What is the large oak tree?
What is T.J. is jealous of the Logan family and doesn't know how to be a true friend. He thinks that money and status is what brings love. He also feels ignored.
Who is Jeremy Simmes?
What is everyone works together to stop the fire and T.J. is saved from hanging, but taken to jail for the death of Mr. Barnett?
This is an example of a switch of mood/tone from rebellious/defiant to controlled/pragmatic.
This symbolizes the resistance and presiverence of the Logan family.
What is the thunder/lightning?
These are forces the Logans have to fight against in the novel (name 3).
What is racial injustice, poverty, educational inequality, Jim Crow laws, heightened tensions because of the boycott, jealousy of the people around them.