Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Group

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ougirl114
ougirl114
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High School - 9th Grade

In Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, what disease does Mr. Avery have when he goes to get his Vicksburg list from Mr. Logan?

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Posted by ougirl114 on Wednesday July 22, 2009 at 7:47 AM and tagged with cry, disease, hear, hear my cry, mr. avery, my, of, roll, roll of thunder, thunder.

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  1. lhc
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    Mr. Avery is in poor health throughout the novel, and that is part of the reason he can't do anything about T.J.'s behavior, but I don't think Cassie, as the narrator, ever specified exactly what was wrong with him.  We do know that the entire Avery family was undernourished; Cassie described  T.J.'s emaciated frame during the first chapter of the novel when the children were walking to school.  When David, Cassie's father, was talking to Mary, Cassie's mother, about T.J.'s issues, he mentioned that T.J.'s father had tried to whip him but had become too tired and out of breath to put much force into it, and it had little or no impact on T.J. 

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    Posted by lhc on Wednesday July 22, 2009 at 10:48 AM