English: Book Report:
                     Let the Circle be unbroken
                                                                                         February 13, 1999

                     In the book, "Let the Circle Be Unbroken" Suzella plays the part of a major
                     character. At some points in the story she is the antagonist because Cassie
                     doesn't like her. She is sent to live with the Logans while her mother and
                     father try to fix the marriage, which ends up not working out. The marriage
                     doesn't work because her mother is white and father is black. While there she
                     makes life for the Logans a little more complicated because she tries to pass
                     as white. Suzella is the great niece to Mary Logan through her father, Bud,
                     and he is the person who decides that Suzella will stay with the Logans.
                     Suzella is Stacey's age, which is about fifteen. She becomes much interest to
                     the boys and young men of the community. Even though Suzella is not at the
                     Logans more than a year she becomes a part of their life. Suzella is pretty girl
                     with a light complexion and looks more white than black. She is able to pass as
                     white and is embarrassed to be part black, so she tries to pass as white. We
                     know that she is embarrassed to be part black because of how she acts when
                     a white person is around, like when Stuart Walker, a white boy, shows interest
                     in her and asks her where she is staying and Suzella avoids the question.
                     Suzella avoids the question because she doesn't want the other white boys to
                     know she's staying with black people because then they'd ask if she was black
                     and she didn't want them to know. Suzella also tells Cassie, "I don't want to
                     marry a black man. My mother did and all it gave her was trouble." Cassie took
                     offense to that because it was like saying a black man wasn't good enough for
                     her. This shows us how Suzella feels about blacks and that she feels that she
                     is superior to them as a race. Suzella faces many conflicts and situations that
                     she may not have found in New York, where she is from. First, she has to
                     adapt to the life style of the country. She doesn't have to worry about friend's
                     cause she said she never had any because of the embarrassment of her
                     father. She was use to a life style of fashion that was insignificant in rural
                     Mississippi. Then Stuart Walker becomes interested in her and thinks she is
                     white and Suzella lets him think she is which later comes with humiliating
                     consequences to Suzella and in part to Stuart because he was fooled. Jake
                     Willis also expresses interest to Suzella even though he is about six years old.
                     Suzella didn't have much say to that because Mr. Logan threw him out
                     because he felt Suzella was to young. I think that was embarrassing to her
                     because she didn't have say and Mr. Logan treated her like a little girl.
                     Another conflict is when Suzella's father takes Dube Cross home and Stuart
                     pulls them over with Suzella, Cassie, Little Man, and John Christopher are in
                     the car. Stuart and his friends make her father strip to his underwear in the
                     front of the kids because the wanted to see if he was light complexioned like
                     his daughter. They did that because Stuart had found out that Suzella was not
                     white and had tricked him and that made Stuart mad. All of these are conflicts
                     or unusual situations that happens to Suzella. Suzella goes to the Logans to
                     learn to be black and what it means to be black while her parents try to fix their
                     marriage. Suzella tries to help out around the house. She becomes excepted
                     into the community and into the Logans family. She learned what it meant to
                     be black threw stories of what white people have done to blacks. The stories
                     convince Suzella to pretend to be white. In conclusion, Suzella is a major
                     character who is sent to live with the Logans. She is sent there to learn to be
                     black and what it means to be black. While there she faces many conflicts that
                     allow her see how things are is the south and how it differs from in the north.