Comparing and Contrasting T.J. and Stacy(roll of thunder hear my cry)
... white, Simms boys. Firstly, following the robbery and murder T.J. told the Simms brothers that he would, “tell everybody it was R.W. and Melvin who had hurt the Barnetts”, this outburst resulted in T.J. being beaten with savage blows until he could no longer stand. T.J. who was blamed for killing the Barnetts was about to be hung but Mr. Logan was able to distract them, this left T.J. to be taken that much ‘cause it usually ain’t on a equal basis”. His father also told him that if you, “… see blacks hanging ‘round with whites, they’re headed for trouble”. When Stacey thought that Jeremy Simms might be a better friend than T.J. his father told him, “Right now you and Jeremy might get along fine, but in a few years he’ll think of himself as a man but you’ll probably still be a boy to him.” Stacey took notice of this advice and did not become friends with any whites. This stopped the whites from having any direct influence on him and might have even stopped him from having a good friendship with Jeremy. Stacey and T.J. did have many other differences that were to do with there character, such as, T.J. enjoyed being the centre of attention while Stacey’s main desire was not to be the centre of attention but to do the right thing. This was another difference; Stacey was much more willing to be truthful and to do the right thing even if that meant being punished. This can be noted on page 74 when Mr, Morrison gave Stacey the choice to either tell his Mother that he went down to the Wallace’s store and then receive the matter what Stacey did to try to stop him. T.J believed that he was older than Stacey because he was friends with the older Simms boys, but in truth Stacey was the “older” one as he showed much more maturity in his cautiousness and decisions on who his friends would be, this was another dissimilarity between T.J. and Stacey that was very much evident throughout the whole book. There were no very many similarities between T.J. and Stac...