Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry I

   The characters of the book "Roll of Thunder" are Little Man, Stacey, Christopher-John, and Cassie. The story was told in first person by Cassie which is the girl in the middle of the picture. It took place during the time when the whites get whatever they wont and the African-Americans get treated like crap which is wrong in so many ways.

  The beginning of the book starts out with the kids going to there first day of school. The school called The Great Faith Elementary and Secondary School, one of the largest black schools in the county. Also it was an hour walk to get there. It was a consisting of four weather-beaten wooden houses on stilts of brick, 320 students, seven teachers, a principal, a caretaker, and the caretaker's cow.

  Everyday they walk to the school they always fear the bus from Jefferson Davis County School, which is a long white wooden building looming in the distance. Behind the building was a sports field around a scattered rows of tired gray benches. So every time they try to walk to school the Jefferson Davis County School buses try to run them off the road or into a ditch.

   One day when they were walking to school they wanted to leave early so they don't have to see the bus. Unlucky for them the bus was less then fifty feet behind them, it veered dangerously close to the right edge of the road where they were running, forcing them to jump to the bank; but all of them fell short and landed in the slime of the gully. Little man grabbed a handful of mud and ran to the road and ran after the retreating bus.

  This is as far as I have read this week but next week I will read more and tell y'all what happens next.