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
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Haruka-
ReplyDeleteAre you reading this again? If so, then you should be getting much more from it the second time around. What is the context behind the quote? How does it reveal that she had a hard life? This isn't clear.