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In the book Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry, did Cassie take revenge on Lillian Jean or was it just a dream?
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Posted by lhc on Saturday August 15, 2009 at 7:40 PMCassie did indeed carry out her revenge against Lillian Jean, revenge she began contemplating shortly after the incident in Strawberry when Lillian Jean ordered her off the sidewalk, and Lillian Jean's father shoved Cassie off the sidewalk himself when Cassie refused. Although she didn't mention specifically her plans for Lillian Jean, Cassie had discussed the situation with the Simms family with Papa, and he had made it very clear to her that if she wasn't careful, the situation could become dangerous. In Mississippi in the 1930's, any conflict between a black person and a white person would surely be decided in the white person's favor, and could end tragically for the black person, as seen in the unpunished lynchings, murders, and general terrorizing of blacks that was permitted in the South in the years after the Civil War.
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