"Cassie, you cracked?" cried Stacey. "Cassie, where you . . . get back here! Cassie!"

Stacey's words faded into the gray stillness of the January morning as I turned deaf ears to him and hurried after Lillian Jean. "Thanks for waiting up," I said when I caught up with her.

She stared down at me irritably. "What you want?"

—Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,
Mildred D. Taylor

What causes Stacey to call Cassie “cracked”?

She is not listening to him.
She runs off ahead of him.
She goes to talk to Lillian Jean.
She irritates Lillian Jean.

1 answer

Stacey calls Cassie “cracked” because she is not listening to him and runs off ahead of him. This suggests that he is frustrated with her behavior and feels she is acting irrationally or recklessly.