Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Cassie and her family visits Vicksburg which is like a market to buy everything. Then she bumps into Lilian Jean who is very rude to her. She resists to apologize but Lilian's father comes out and her grandma orders her to do so. she does it while feeling humilated."No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one" (116). When I first read this I don't understand why this Cassie doesn't understand about racism thing but now I assume that she has humiliated officially that day because of racism. She always doesn't like the idea of black being lower status than white. I think it is because Cassie doesn't know about racism. She is raised among blacks so she may not be aware of it. Maybe she just thinks that the fact that whites always get good is just unfair, nothing less, nothing more. But now she knows it and I'm sure she will have revenge to beat nasty white fellows.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry / Mildred D Tyler

The setting and time is the southside of America during the reconstraction era. The protagnist is Cassie Logan,African American, who lives with her family owning a quite a lot of land which is unusual at that time.
It is a first day of school and Cassie and Little man, her brother, receive a textbook which are used til like the condition is very poor by whites. They see that they are called Negro. Their teacher becomes mad because they reject having them. She tells their motherabot the incident, urging this is nonsense.
I like the scene when Mama says that "but that doesn't mean they have to accept them...and maybe we don't either"(30)
we see the background there that she had a hard life

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli :final entry

On the ending stargirl leaves the high school without saying good bye. After decades, Leo still remembers about her and talked about her with his friends. People in the grade of 200whatever in which star girl was in meet every 10 years but nobody knows where she went. The largest theme of the book was the popularity. Stargirl was popular once but then people hated her and again they started to like her. Popularity is something like that. It shifts away so often so quickly. so it is not truly important because it is not something that lasts long. What is important is keep your uniqueness and not to merge into the sameness so easily. I thought at first that this book is very boring but kept reading it hoping it would be interesting, and it was right. I think the later part was something to read. So, it was exciting reading time, I must say. I thought that stargirl was careless but she was just immature. She acted like a baby. She just did not know how to act. She was ignorant. Anyways, I enjoyed this book very much.

Stargirl

As the story goes, people starts to hate and ignore Stargirl. Her boyfriend Leo is not comfortable with it. He tries to persuade her to be normal. I thought what Leo likes about Stargirl is her uniqueness and he should not say anything cruel about her differences. But if I were him, I would just stay away from her because she doesn't care about what others think, in a bad way. Stargirl is homeschooled so she may not understand but taking picture of someone and following them without their permission are not very welcomed. she says when a boy grows up he may want to know about when he was little. so she takes a picture and record what he does in a book. when he grows up she will give it to him. He'll be happy. this is okay while she is just a girl but if she is like an adult it is creepy. She goes to the funeral, sharing griefs even though she doesn't know the dead person. I just don't see what is the good of this girl. She is so careless. She does what she wants to do. Leo sees her as some kind of saint because she does so-called generous things but I think she is just a chunk of egocentric and hypocritic person.

but I think I know what the author wants to say by showing stargirl. she is pure. she is innocent. she cares about everyone like merciful god. she cries when someone dies. she cheers when someone wins. no matter who the person is. That's like Jesus.