Cassie

Cassie is the narrator of the story. She has three brothers. The little one, Little Man who's six , Stacey, who is twelve, and Christopher-John, seven. They live in Mississippi in 1933. Their father owns 400 acres of land. Now they have trouble paying taxes, so the father has to go to Louisana to lay track. Her father said to her,"Look out there Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't ever had to live like that, you ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and for as long I live and this family survives, You'll never have to." ( page 7 )

On the first day of school, Cassie was in the same class as Little Man. After Little Man through a temper tantrum, she got in trouble for agreeing with Little Man that the book was mean and
bad.

One day, Cassie and her brothers were waiting for school. When the school bus came, the bus driver splashed the kids with water. Kids from the bus yelled, " Nigger! Nigger! Mud eater!"( page 48) So at lunchtime, Cassie and her brothers wanted revenge, so they dug hole and the bus came by and got stuck in the hole.