He has a short temper. Big Ma Caroline Logan Papa's mother. A woman of sixty, she runs the Logan farm. Avery A trouble-making friend of Stacey's. Jeremy Simms A white boy who is often beaten for walking to school with and associating with the Logan children. Lillian Jean Simms A prissy seventh grader.
Melvin and R. Simms The older Simms brothers make trouble. Morrison A big, burly man with streaks of white hair who comes to work on the Logan farm. Jamison A local lawyer; a white man. The Wallace Family Kaleb, Dewberry, etc. Harlan Granger A rich plantation owner who is anxious to buy back the Logan's land.
And we know that—unlike Cassie—Stacey gets it. He literally shuts the door on a friendship with Jeremy when he closes the lid on the treasure box in which he stores the wooden flute that Jeremy has made for him 7. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources.
Study Guide. By Mildred D. Previous Next. Stacey Logan Stacey is Cassie's big brother. All that work he doing, I could've done it myself. Growing Up By the end of the book, Stacey is a little closer to the "man" side of that border. At first, he's into Jeremy: Actually he's [Jeremy's] much easier to get along with than T. Mission complete: one fully formed adult. What's Up With the Ending? Setting What's Up With the Epigraph? He and T. However, he remains concerned about him and asks about him from other boys who have seen him.
Jeremy shows himself to be a friend even when Stacey seems ill at ease about accepting it. Stacey continues his friendship with Jeremy even though he keeps it low-key. Also, in keeping the flute, but putting it away, it seems as though he may be waiting to find out if his father is correct in saying that sooner or later Jeremy will turn on him.
Morrison beat the Wallaces under circumstances when the Wallaces could not retaliate, and he saw his father find a way to subvert white intentions without letting them know who had done it.
He runs into the woods to vent his grief over his friend. As with Cassie, the incident will leave him a changed boy. He is a weak character who wants to be treated as a man. He likes to feel important, a characteristic portrayed early in the story when he visits the Logans with news he thinks they have not yet received and makes a major project out of the telling. He tries to act big by teasing the younger children and by trying to talk them into things their parents have forbidden.
He sees nothing wrong with cheating on a test or lying to Stacey to get his new coat away from him. He uses his friends the same way the Simms use him later on. He is also gullible, measuring friendship in terms of how much he can get. He does not understand that his horrible loneliness is a direct result of his abuse of his real friends. He is the victim of circumstances. He lives in the North and drives a Packard like Mr.
Granger does. He visits the Logans during the Christmas season and brings gifts. He has a strong temper and wants to attack Charlie Simms after his bad treatment of Cassie. Ultimately, he quells his temper when he must and sells his Packard in order to protect the land, bringing the money to his brother by hand and leaving before his presence can fuel more tensions. Morrison is an extremely big and strong older man whom Papa brings home from the railroad. Morrison got in a fight with some white men and was fired from the railroad.
He helps to protect the Logans, watching outside their house at night, and stays on with the family even after he injured the Wallaces when they attacked Papa. His own family was brutally murdered by a lynch mob during Reconstruction and he says that the Logans are like family to him.
An emaciated-looking, thirteen-year-old boy, TJ is foolish but provides a source of information about racial incidents for the Logan children. He is repeating the seventh grade, cheats on tests, gets Mama fired, and hangs out at the Wallace store which ultimately loses him Stacey's friendship.
His "friendship" with the older, white Simms brothers leads him to commit a crime and nearly causes him to be lynched. He is the catalyst for an eruption of racial tension and at the end will most likely be sent to a chain gang for a murder that the Simmses committed.
TJ's younger brother does not say much but is also a friend to the Logans. He is more afraid of TJ than of their mother and generally does what his brother tells him to do.
He is beaten by the mob when they come for his brother. TJ and Claude's father is a sharecropper on Harlan Granger's land. He participates in the boycott of the Wallace store but backs out when Granger threatens to kick him off the land. He is small and sickly and can't control TJ.
He too is treated violently when the mob comes for his son. TJ and Claude's mother has little control over her sons. When she tries to protect her son from the mob, she is thrown back against her house. Jeremy is a towheaded white boy, probably about eleven, who wants to be friends with Stacey. While the other white children ride the bus, he always walks to school. He is whipped by his father for associating with the Logans.
He dislikes his older brothers and sleeps in a treehouse to get away from his family. Aged twelve or thirteen, Lillian Jean is Jeremy's older sister. She has long blond hair, which Cassie makes use of when fighting her. She is shrill and bossy.
Her father forces Cassie to call her "Miz Lillian Jean" and apologize after bumping into her in Strawberry. Jeremy and Lillian Jean's older brothers are about eighteen or nineteen years old. They pretend to be friends with TJ, who steals things for them, and for whom they buy things.
When he helps them break into the Barnett Mercantile to steal a gun, they kill Mr. Barnett and injure Mrs. Afterward, they beat TJ and lead the mob that breaks into the Avery house and tries to hang him. The father of the Simms family is a "mean-looking man, red in the face and bearded. He is not involved in the attack on the Avery house, but is woken up by Jeremy who smells smoke from the tree-house.
Cassie and Little Man see him working side-by-side with Mr. Lanier to put out the fire at the end of the novel. Granger owns a ten-square-mile plantation which is worked by sharecropping families.
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