Logan Society Quotes

Cassie Logan stood up to her rival Lillian Jean Simms. When Cassie was on her way back to the wagon to greet Big Ma, she ran into Lillian Jean Simms on the sidewalk. Lillian told Cassie that she had to walk in the road because she was getting in everybody’s way. Cassie refused, then along comes Mr. Simms, Lillian’s dad. Big Ma then joined the conversation. Cassie was forced to apologize. When she did, she said “I’m sorry,” I mumbles. “I’m sorry Miz Lillian Jean,” demanded Mr. Simms.” (Taylor, Chap. 5) Cassie didn’t want to say sorry because she didn’t do anything to Lillian. Later on in the chapter Cassie decided to be nice to Lillian Jean. She offered to hold her books and walk with her to school. On their walk Cassie said “Well to tell you the truth, I was real upset for a while there. But my Papa told me it don’t do no good sitting around being mad. Then I seen how things was. I mean, I should’ve seen it all along. After all, I’m who I am and you’re who you are.” (Taylor, Chap. 5)Cassie was explaining to Lillian Jean that she knew that she should’ve respected her. That’s just how things were back then. All blacks had to follow what the whites said. If you didn’t you could get in a lot of

TJ gets himself in trouble with R.W. and Melvin Simms, two white brothers. The boys only want TJ around so they have someone to put the blame on and make fun of him. When TJ wants a very nice handgun at the Barnett Mercantile, the Simms brothers fool him into thinking that his dream is about to come true. RW and Melvin convinced TJ to try to steal the gun. They were caught in the act and the brothers punished TJ horribly. TJ tapped on the Logans door in the middle of the night. Stacey and Cassie answered the door. They knew they had to help him despite the negative acts against their family. “Stacey? I whispered afraid of what he might do. As far back as I could remember, Stacey had felt a responsibility for TJ I had never really understood why. Perhaps he felt that even a person as despicable as TJ needed someone he could call “friend”, or perhaps he sensed TJ’s vulnerability better than TJ did himself. Stacey, you ain’t goin’ are you?... You go on back to bed Cassie. I’ll be alright.” (pg. 249) This quote is a prime example of Stacey’s courage. Stacey knows that helping TJ could get him in trouble or even killed. Stacey is a true friend, and a brave one too.

Cassie has a major amount of bravery because she will stand up to basically anything. Cassie will also help her family as much as possible. Taylor also wrote on Page 52 “Now understanding Stacey’s plan, we worked wordlessly…” That statement told everyone that she trust her family and she will follow her family to a certain extent. Another time Cassie showed she was loyal was during

She creates stories and makes assumptions. She also prefers to talk, not listen. For example, when Beth and Calvin go to play golf, Calvin tells Beth that Conrad “needs to know that you don’t hate him”. She gets defensive immediately and starts to accuse Conrad of telling lies to his father, convinced that Conrad is against her. She shows signs of violence, including labeling Instead, she should control her stories and presume that people are basically good.

His so called friend T.J. Avery has made new “friends” that have murdered a man, stole a pistol, and threatened to kill him. T.J. is going to be hung unless Stacy, Papa, and Mr. Morrison can stop T.J.’s “new friends” from hanging him. Stacy is the most loyal friend because he is loving. Unlike T.J. Stacy is willing to give his life for others even if they are not nice. He is the most loving child. This is a feat of courage because of Stacy’s age. You are never to young to help those in need even if they were your

was time to go to bed. Now go!” This is to protect the children from

The sound was deafening as Nathan's plane landed in Chicago. He had moved from Quebec, Canada because his father was dispatched there for his job and the job sponsored his family to move. Nathan has an younger sister named Zoe. Zoe is in 8th grade, while Nathan is a junior in high school, class of 1966. As his schooling progresses, he is assigned a project to write an essay about an issue in today’s world. After days of meticulous research and writing, his paper is finished. Nathan chose to write about the Civil Rights movement and the injustices against African Americans. This paper inspired him and his classmates to speak up about Civil Rights.

Lillian Jean got mad at Cassie for bumping into her, and forced her to apologize. Eventually, a fight started and Big Ma came to solve it. Cassie thought Big Ma would stand up for her, but she forced Cassie to apologize. This showed me that Cassie is still very confused about the Jim Crow South. She still doesn’t know why Whites were able to have priorities over things, but also why they could tell Blacks what to

She had help from Mama and kept asking her mother to help her and her brothers understand why blacks were being treated in this manner. The book takes place nine years before the start of World War ll. Throughout the rest of the book she started to understand why people didn't treat them right even though blacks were free. She realizes this when she was in the middle of the market place with Mama and bumped into Lillian Jean and was being screamed at by everyone to apologize and when she finally did apologize she asked Mama on the way home why she was being screamed at by the white people to apologize, mama told cassie that it was because the whites didn’t see blacks as actual people. (CItation) Why are you telling me this? What does it have to do with your

Before Cassie Bernall became a Christian, she was an outsider at school. Cassie had written letters to a friend about how she could kill her parents, Brad and Misty Bernall, and end all of her problems. Cassie's parents found the letters, made copies of them, and gave them to the police department. When Cassie got home from school, her parents confronted her. After the confrontation, the Bernall's broke all of Cassie's ties with her friends. The Bernall's enrolled Cassie in a Christian school. Cassie was not allowed to answer the phone and no longer had any privileges. She was allowed to go to a youth group, but that was all she could do. Her parents even went as far to put a monitor on their phone so they could know what she was doing when they weren't home. Cassie had lost all of the trust that she earned from her parents. Misty Bernall didn't go back to work so that she could watch over Cassie. Cassie had her backpack searched, her phone calls monitored, and her bedroom searched. Furtively investigating their daughter, they say,

Jennifer Weiner, a writer, once claimed that: “Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.” The same is true for the social status of individuals. The character Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, among the lowest social status in the Puritan community of Salem, is exploited by the higher status individuals in her community and therefore they are an antagonist. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author suggests that the antagonist is not Roger Chillingworth but rather Puritan society itself because society fails to attempt to understand Hester’s situation, prevents the reunification of Hester and Dimmesdale and refuses to reshape its opinion and alienates her until she becomes beneficial to it.

Crocker, and her brother. When Cassie and Little Man were in school, they were given books that were used already by white kids. They were old, and dirty. There was a name that was used in the books, that offended the Logan kids. Little Man asked for new books, but Ms. Crocker gave him a switch. Cassie stood up for her brother, and got switched too. Cassie showed courage when she said, “They give us these ole books when they didn’t want em’ no more.” Cassie is starting to realize that life isn’t always going to be fair. This shows that Cassie is brave, and is not afraid to stand up for what she believes in. Cassie is also willing to stand up for her family, not just herself. From this moment on, Cassie will realize that life won’t always be

Being a single mother, Cassie assumes the roles of both mother and father. Some of the specific mother roles she

The further ‘off the rails’ Cassie goes, the more extreme the sexual situations, at one point ‘courting’ a female and then a few minutes after the female leaves a male arrives. “Sexuality strongly influences people’s identity.” (Op. cit. p.22) And at this point in the series we find that Cassie has a very mixed up idea about who she is and what she wants.

Lillian Jean truly believes that as a white girl, she is superior to "her little colored friend". Cassie, outraged at being treated literally like a slave, shows respect towards Lillian Jean. Flattered, Lillian Jean "allows" Cassie to carry her books everyday, and begins to tell her secrets and the secrets of her friends to her. One day, Cassie lures Lillian Jean into the woods, telling her "I got a real nice surprise for you". Cassie goads Lillian into slapping her, after which Cassie, having been technically hit first, flails into Lillian, punching her in the stomach, and pulling her hair. Being careful not to touch her face, Cassie pulls Lillian Jean's hair and makes her apologize for the demeaning way she has treated her over the past