<P> Papa, Mr. Morrison and Stacey go to Vicksburg; on their way back, they find one of the wagon wheels has been tampered with . As Papa fixes it, they are ambushed by the Wallaces . They attempt to shoot Papa with a bullet that grazes his temple . However, this startles the horse into running off, causing the wagon to fall and crush Papa's leg . Mr. Morrison attacks the Wallaces, snapping Dewberry Wallace's back . Later, Mr. Granger uses his banking influence to make the Logan's mortgage note due for full payment within a week even though the Logans had four more years to pay it . Uncle Hammer sells his car and other items, leaving the Logans able to pay the mortgage . </P> <P> On the last night of church revival meetings in August, T.J. appears dressed up in gangster - like clothes with R.W. and Melvin in order to show his former friends he is better off without them . R.W. and Melvin take T.J. to get the pearl handled pistol at the Barnett store . The store is closed, but R.W. and Melvin convince T.J. to steal the gun while they rob the cash box . The Barnetts catch what appear to be three black burglars, as Melvin and R.W. are wearing stocking masks over their faces . R.W. hits Mr. Barnett with the flat end of an ax and slaps Mrs. Barnett, causing her to hit the back of her head on a stove and black out . They beat up T.J. when he threatens to reveal what happened . T.J. flees to the Logans . Stacey takes T.J. home before T.J.'s father finds him missing and kicks him out . The Simms and Wallaces attack the Avery's home, capture T.J. and are about to lynch him when Mr. Jamison and the town sheriff arrived . The Wallaces propose taking T.J. to the Logan's land and killing him and Papa and Mr. Morrison . The Logan children flee home where they are found to have been missing and reveal what happened . Papa and Mr. Morrison leave . Mama and Big Ma realize that there is a fire outside that may consume their land . The fire stops the lynching by causing the Simms, Wallaces and Logans to work together to extinguish it . </P> <P> Mrs. Barnett survives the burglary, but Mr. Barnett dies . The sheriff arrests T.J. and Cassie realizes that Papa set the fire to save T.J. Stacey asks what T.J.'s fate will be . Papa replies that he will be convicted of Mr. Barnett's murder and may be executed . Cassie, overwhelmed by the news, silently goes to bed . Although Cassie never liked T.J., she cries for him and the land . </P> <Ul> <Li> Cassie Logan: The narrator and protagonist . Cassie is 9 years old . She has a fiery temper, is brave, and is also very naive about racism, but sometimes she can be just like the boys . She is very brave and strong for herself . She's strong - willed, and will speak her mind in just about any situation . </Li> <Li> Stacey Logan: A 12 - year - old boy who is slowly progressing into manhood . He is protective over his siblings and understands racism . He is the oldest child of the family and is friends with T.J. but questions it sometimes . In the end, Stacey realizes how he was changing . While Papa is away, he feels like he's the man of the house and needs to keep his family safe . </Li> <Li> Christopher - John Logan: A plump, cheerful 7 year - old, Christopher - John is the third - oldest of the children . He is timid and easygoing . Christopher John doesn't really stand out in the crowd, so he is very different from his other siblings . </Li> <Li> Little Man (Clayton Chester Logan): A meticulously neat 6 year - old first - grader, Little Man is the youngest of the Logan children . He also doesn't understand why blacks get treated so badly and does not understand why blacks and whites are different . All that he knows is that he does not like it at all . </Li> <Li> Papa (David Paul Logan): The father of the Logan children . He values his independence highly, leaving for months at a time to work on the railroad in order not to lose ownership of Logan land . </Li> <Li> Uncle Hammer: The uncle of the Logan children . He does not like racism and cannot deal with it wisely . He has enough money to buy nice clothes and even an expensive car . He sells his car later in the book so the family could keep the land . </Li> <Li> Mama (Mary Logan): The mother of four children, Stacey, Cassie, Christopher - John, and Little Man . She teaches seventh grade at Great Faith Elementary, a class that gets smaller every year when her older students leave school to work on their families' sharecropper lands, and is eventually fired when T.J. tells on her pasting over the books' covers' racist front cover charts and about their leading of the boycott of the Wallace's . </Li> <Li> Big Ma (Caroline) The mother of Papa and Uncle Hammer . The loving grandmother of Cassie, Stacey, Little Man, and Christopher John . She is also the main caretaker of the house . </Li> </Ul>

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