Question for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Uncle Hammer

‘Get back inside,' Mama called over her shoulder, but she was too busy trying to grab Uncle Hammer to see to it that we obeyed, and we did not move. ‘Hammer, Cassie's all right,' she cried. ‘Don’t go making unnecessary trouble !'

'Unnecessary trouble! You think my brother died and I got my leg half blown off in their German war to have some red-neck knock Cassie around anytime it suits him! If I'd've knocked his girl down, you know what'd've happened to me! Yeah, you know all right. Right now I'd be hanging from that oak over yonder. Let go of me, Mary."