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Risks Of Papa And TJ In Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry many characters took risks the two that stick out in my head the most is of papa and TJ. TJ didn’t study for a test so he wondered his eyes about until he saw some answers on a nearby classmates answer sheet. He could of suffered the consequence of failing the test and only getting into a little trouble with his parents but he got caught cheating, since he was a colored child he was thrown out of school. Throughout this, whole novel TJ has made dozens of enemies, a lot of people wouldn’t mind to see him dead. When TJ was younger his siblings and him always got mud splashed on them by their racist bus driver, so one day during lunch the children went into the bus yard and dug
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