Answer: Cassie learns , looking at a fig tree, that no matter how hard they try, black people can never get to the top.
It was often impossible to get on a bus because some seats were reserved for the White people. There was always the possibility that the KuKlux Klan would attack the home of a Black family with rocks thrown through windows and a burning cross in the yard. . Black children would be whipped.
There was fear of being lynched.
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