Read the excerpt from roll of thunder, hear my cry. when we were alone, [lillian jean] confided her secrets to me: the boy she had passionately loved for the past year and the things she had done to attract his attention (with no success, i might add); the secrets of the girls she couldn't stand as well as those she could; and even a tidbit or two about her elder brothers' romantic adventures. all i had to do to prime the gossip pump was smile nicely and whisper a "miz lillian jean" every now and then. what motivates lillian jean to tell cassie all her secrets?

her feeling of superiority over cassie

her feeling that cassie cannot be trusted

her need to trick cassie into liking her

her need to make cassie feel jealous

Some cultural backgrounds have different superstitions or customs, this can play a part in how they decide things. superstitions are important to a culture for example, an asian culture has a superstition about women putting their purses on the ground their money will be gone, therefore people in that culture try everything they can to not let their purse touch the ground in fear of it being true. also like how we avoid walking under ladders in fear of bad luck. customs may also play a key role a custom also know as a tradition, is something people in the culture have been doing for generations as a quick example, if a family has a necklace that the family's mother passes it on to her daughter in so on it's a custom in that family.