For example we can read in the novel about the Jefferson Davis School bus, which is only for white children, where Blacks do not have a bus so Cassie and her brothers have to walk to school. However, the children are always threatened by this bus, "a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire". And it is because of racism. The whites in the bus enjoy it “laughing with faces" to see the black children try to run their lives. Life in the 1930s for the black people was difficult as they were suppressed and treated as if they were animals. With a temper such as Cassie’s, she finds life not fair and still does not understand "the way of things" between the black and white people until T.J is going to be punished by hanging for a crime he did not commit. Even though Cassie has now fully grown, she stays strong and fight for the black
For example we can read in the novel about the Jefferson Davis School bus, which is only for white children, where Blacks do not have a bus so Cassie and her brothers have to walk to school. However, the children are always threatened by this bus, "a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire". And it is because of racism. The whites in the bus enjoy it “laughing with faces" to see the black children try to run their lives. Life in the 1930s for the black people was difficult as they were suppressed and treated as if they were animals. With a temper such as Cassie’s, she finds life not fair and still does not understand "the way of things" between the black and white people until T.J is going to be punished by hanging for a crime he did not commit. Even though Cassie has now fully grown, she stays strong and fight for the black