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Inspiring Courage from
Stacey:
Many people must face courage by being bullied, just because of the color of their skin. In Mildred D. Taylor book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Stacey had to show courage by the bus Trench, and T.J.’s cheat notes. Stacey is the oldest Logan kid, he feels that he is the man of the house when papa is at the railroad.

Would you rather almost get ran over by a bus or would you do something about that would get you in trouble? Stacey had an plan to stop that bus from splashing them. “I’ll show y’all how we’re gonna stop that bus from splashing us.” Stacey knew that little man hated that he almost got run over. Stacey ignored that for a little while, but then he had a idea to dig a big trench on the side of the road. Then they noticed it was raining Heavily; They thought that was a good thing so the bus driver will think it was not a big of a hole. When the bus was coming down the road the bus driver saw the hole and decided to drive through it so he
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Stacey had no idea that he would get in trouble for something that he did not do. little Willie said, “ But Stacey was not going to tell on ole T.J., and you know good and well ole T.J. wasn’t ‘bout to say them notes were his.” In the class T.J. had cheat notes in Mis Logan’s class. He saw Miz Logan coming, but Stacey did not. T.j. then passed the cheat notes and Stacey took them. Stacey then got in trouble my mama and he took the blame for T.j.

Stacey shows courage throughout the whole book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Stacey showed how to show courage by doing things that he could get in trouble by. Stacey inspires me for what he did to show courage. I mean Cassie showed courage, but not as much as Stacey. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry is a fantastic book I love it how it shows courage. My final thought on courage is never be afraid you can so courage in your


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