Analysis Of Melba Pattilo Beals 'Warriors Don' T Cry

During the story Warriors don't cry, Melba's life is inverted. Throughout the story , her tone changes as she goes through the ups and downs of Central High ; she uses imagery to show the cruelty the school and the challenges which was thrown upon her. By using certain words she brings her experience to life so the reader can understand what happened there, while she faces segregationists and their cruelty her voice changes in the story showing what this journey is doing to her.

“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain” (Baldwin, 2012/1955, p. 745). James Baldwin is one of the most thought inducing writers of his time. Marked by his experiences in the realms of racial, sexual, and religious struggles Baldwin’s life and works have opened the eyes of the American people, as well as many others, to these sensitive subjects that we have struggled with.

A prominent thematic throughout the novel, Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals is self-reliance. In many instances throughout the novel, Melba must be brave and is sometimes not able to rely on anyone else but herself. There are many figures in the novel that help her overcome obstacles but in many cases, she is forced to fight the battle on her own. One could imply that the tone of the novel is fearful because she is terrified in multiple occasions and is forced to overcome these challenges.

Education is what gives us the ability to make something of ourselves. Education is a right, some many people today still have to fight for. Melba in Warriors Don 't Cry fought for her education day and night, inside and outside of Central High School. Melba was constantly threatened by segregationists during her time at Central High School while she was fighting for equal rights. Equal rights became an important issue to Melba throughout Warriors Don 't Cry, and she also became a face of change to her people.

How a person acquires fundamental opinions has been a controversial topic for generations. Some people claim that a person’s opinion is inborn. Others theorize that a person’s opinion is learned. However, most will agree that a person’s surroundings, environment, and history have a great impact on their worldly views. One’s environment can be described as where they live, where they spend their time, the place where they attend school or work, who they live with, and who they associate with. For every person, these are the most influential things in their life. Thus, said people and places dramatically affect how one views the world. One’s environment greatly impacts how one sees the world. It could be said that people and places have no influence

In the book, Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba Pattillo Beals brought significant events that are significantly influenced her and the other characters. There are two factors that I feel have significantly influenced Melba and other characters in the book, such as family and community support and racial politics.

Imagine being a 17 year old African American kid always being judged just because of his skin color. Everywhere you go you feel like all eyes are on you, especially when you go to a school that only has eight black kids. That's exactly how Justyce McAllister felt in Dear Martin by Nic Stone. In the book, the main character Justyce goes through a lot of conflict involving his skin color. Even though he has a full scholarship at Braselton Preparatory Academy, and is a very smart student, he still gets judged. One important message that came from this book was don’t judge someone just because of their skin color.

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” This quote by Eleanor Roosevelt says that to grow as a person, someone must first be scared. People also have to do what they think is impossible to grow. The Little Rock Nine, who integrated Central High, were scared for their lives every day of their high school experience at Central High. The ideas shown in this quote are expressed in the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals. Melba Patillo Beals was a member of the Little Rock Nine. Beals highlights conflict and metaphor in her novel and displays examples of Eleanor Roosevelt’s beliefs in action.

people in the world. Nobody gets to pick who they are, what their race is or what kind of environment they will come into when they are born, if they could I 'm sure the world would not be filled with hate or or discrimination. The novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by author Mildred D. Taylor, is an excellent example of historical fiction which despises the many struggles blacks endured in their fight for civil rights.

In the book Warriors Don 't Cry, Melba and her friends integrate into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Melba and her friends experiences troubles as she tries to survive integration. Beals reveals a lot of things that would gives hint to things that we see ahead. The book mainly focuses on the south, light has been shed on events in the north around the same time when the Little Rock Nine (Bars) integrated. This essay will make inferences that show how people in the southern schools will continue to be ruthless and slow acceptance for the nine and for the north schools how whites will except African-Americans more.

Have you ever faced a life changing experience in your life. Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson, and “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel. Jackie robinson, Melba beals, and Feng ru faced life changing experiences that changed their life and country.

Imagine getting up everyday before high school and preparing for war. For Melba Pattillo Beals this fear was a scary reality. In the beginning of “Warriors Don 't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock 's Central High” by Melba Pattillo Beals, she begins talking about what it’s like to come back to the haunted racist halls of Little Rock Central High School. This was a time when civil rights was a major issue and the color separation between white and black was about to be broken. Melba and nine other students entered Central High School becoming the first African American students to go to an all white school. Her book describes the hardship and struggle she faced growing up in Little Rock and what it was like to be hurt and abused all throughout high school.

“Help!” Yelled Melba as she was kicked and punched to the ground by a white boy. This dreadful even happens in Warriors Don’t Cry. Warriors Don’t Cry is a book by Melba about herself, a girl named Melba Pattillo Beals. Melba is a Negro who lives in Little Rock, Arkansas and is 15 years old. She grew up going to Horace Mann a “Colored” school that only people with black skin could go to. Melba decided that it was not fair, she wanted to go to school with the white kids. Melba wanted to get a better education, so she and 8 other students called the Little Rock Nine from Horace Mann went to Central High. The Little Rock Nine all experienced a very exhausting school year full of challenges, triumphs and allies.

So one day a man tried to rape Melba and that traumatized her. The white society doesn't know that their doing so much damage they think it's alright, but mostly their hurting and being disrespectful towards children who are innocent. Baldwin told his nephew "Please try to be clear, dear James though the storm which rages about your youthful head today, about the reality which lies behind the word acceptance and integration." Grandma India told Melba to pray for the man that tried to rape her and to pray for go forgiveness towards him. Even thought Melba was still a teenager she had to go through all this, but she is for what she believes in even if she has to give up everything fun that she use to do. Like all of the African Americans are! They want to live a normal life but they can't because of the way they

The book Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo follows the story of a young, sixteen year old Pattillo and the eight other African-American high school students in Little Rock, Arkansas who helped change public school systems and civil rights in America forever. Throughout the book Pattillo and the other eight brave young men and women stand down for nothing until they accomplish the task that they took into their own hands; integrating Central High School in Little Rock.