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Character Quotes
Character Quotes
The Logan Family
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Cassie
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Define ADMONISH and use it in a sentence.
To warn or caution gently, but seriously
The teacher admonished Cassie for daydreaming.
Define PLACID and use it in a sentence.
Peaceful, calm
Her placid face didn’t show the anger she felt.
Define METICULOUS and use it in a sentence.
Extremely or overly careful in small details
Little Man is meticulous when it comes to his clothing.
Define FEIGN and use it in a sentence.
To pretend or fake
T.J. feigned ignorance when accused of cheating.
Define INDIGNANT and use it in a sentence.
Filled with anger caused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean
Little Man was indignant when he discovered his “new” school book was a hand-me-down.
“Then I turned and left the forest, not wanting to believe that
Lillian Jean didn’t even realize it had all been just a game.”
Cassie
“You my only friend. . .ain’t never really had no true friend
but you.”
T.J.
“Y’all go ahead and get dirty if y’all wanna. . .Me, I’m gonna
stay clean.”
Little Man
“Then Jack reared up, scared by the shot, and I – I couldn’t hold
him. . .and. . .and the wagon rolled over Papa’s leg. . .It’s my fault his
leg’s busted!”Stacey
“It will be easy enough for anyone to see whose
responsibility it is, Daisy, by opening any seventh-grade book. Because tomorrow I’m going to
mess them up too.”Mama
“Uh. . .excuse me, Mr. Barnett. I think you forgot but you was waiting on us, before you was waiting on this girl here, and we been waiting a good while now for
you to get back.”
Cassie
“See if you was smart like me, Stacey, you’d use the old brain to get the questions on that big test comin’ up. Just think, they probably
just sittin’ right here in this very room waitin’ to be discovered.”
T.J.
“He’ll be thirteen next month, honey, and he needs to be with me more. I can’t take him with me on the
railroad, but I can take him with me where I go around here. And I want him to know business. . .how to take
care of it, how to take care of things when I ain’t around.”
Papa
“Built it myself and I sleeps up there. Come these hot nights, I just climbs in my tree and
it’s like going into another world. . .Sometimes I think I can even see all the way over to
y’all’s place.”
Jeremy Simms
“Jim Lee Barnett and his wife are still alive. Y’all let the sheriff and me take the boy. Let the law decide whether
or not he’s guilty.”
Mr. Jamison
He caused Mama to be fired for covering the inside of her seventh grade books.
T.J.
They befriended T.J to use him and make him look like a fool.
R.W. and Melvin Simms
Papa brings him to live with the family to protect them from possible trouble with the white community.
Mr. Morrison
Uncle Hammer has a car like his.
Mr. Harlan Granger
He is the Yankee lawyer with an office in Strawberry.
Mr. Jamison
Mrs. Crocker
Cassie’s teacher
The cruelest day of her life.
When she had to apologize to Lillian Jean.
Her grandfathers first and middle name.
Paul Edward
Cassie’s roommate.
Big Ma
She cried for “him” and she cried for “it.”
T.J. and the land
Copyrighted ©. 2000. HAIGH AND HAIGH AND FEHRENBACH Dozier Middle School
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