What happened in Mr. Barnett’s store when Cassie was finally allowed to visit Strawberry? Explain the event from both Cassie’s and Stacey’s perspective. What was different about the way each character acted and felt?

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Big Ma takes T. J., Stacey, and Cassie to the market in the town of Strawberry one day. While Big Ma is visiting the office of Mr. Jamison, trouble-making T. J. convinces the other children to go ahead and do some shopping. In a general store, the clerk waits on white customers and ignores them. Cassie assumes the man has forgotten about them, and so she tugs at his sleeve and reminds him. He yells at her and tells her to get out.

Stacey and Cassie are learning about racism. Cassie does not fully understand the situation in Spokane, Mississippi--she does not understand why Blacks have to back down, and gets confrontational. Stacey, on the other hand, understands that this is necessary in the short-term in order to survive, which is why he tries to get his sister to calm down and walk away from the scene.