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The Logan children don't have the energy or enthusiasm at the beginning of chapter 4 because of what Cassie saw. Cassie saw the night men at their house so told her siblings which frightened them. In Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry on page 68, it states, " ... the vision of ghostly headlights soaked into my mind and an uncontrollable trembling racked my body." Cassie went outside because she thought her brothers were out there and soon noticed it was her dog, but on her way back to her room she saw headlight come up and stop in front of her house. The headlights frightened her because they were the night men, she told her brothers and they are now scared which is why they are not
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