Ruby Bridges: A True Story Of A First-Grade Girl

Ruby Bridges had a difficult and eventful childhood. For example, Ruby, an African American at the age of six moved to New Orleans. That year Ruby was the first African American to go to a white school (“Ruby Bridges”). As a child going to a white school Federal Marshals had to go to school with a lot and the

During the segregated times back in the south was very hard to deal with especially being a kid. You weren’t allowed to go anywhere you wanted too or do many things, especially if you were black. Everything was always divided into two main groups which were whites only and blacks only. Signs like these were hung up almost everywhere from water fountains to bathrooms and also from buses to schools. Fortunately the schools being segregated will eventually change because of Ruby Bridges. Ruby bridges was the first black child to go to a all-white Elementary school during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.

My book report is for A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen. I chose this book because it describes the life of a twelve year old girl during the Great Berlin Wall. This book is about a young girl named Greta who is separated from her father and brother because of the Berlin Wall. One day Greta gets a message from her father. She thinks he wants her to start digging a tunnel. Greta finds and old abandoned building where she starts digging. Greta and her brother Fritz work long, tireless, never-ending days digging. One day there was someone of the other side of the tunnel, it was Papa. Once the tunnel was completed they set through it, escaping the treacherous East side, to the colorful bright West.

The setting of the poor inner city helps us realize how unevenly the pie is split up between members of society. As close as the inner city is to Manhattan, they are worlds apart in terms of social class and wealth. The lesson that the children take out of the field trip with Ms. Moore directly related to the fact that these children have been raised less fortunately that some, and to get out of oppression and poverty, they will have to work. The children realize the value of money and how unfair it is that there is so much wealth in Manhattan and a stone 's throw away in the inner city, there is extreme poverty. The children learn social gaps are very wide, and by leaving their ghetto area they some to she that in comparison to Manhattan, they are all receiving the small slice of the American pie. Miss Moore and the Manhattan trip help the children realize that poverty is not found everywhere, and that education can give them the power to elevate their status.

I would recommend this book because it shows all the aspects of life and never makes you bored like other books that waste so much time describing something little and doesn’t get on with anything. This book is appropriate for teenagers and young adults as it has some inappropriate things and ideas like the rape case. This book links to my life by showing how racism is a concerning case like what’s happening now in many countries in the world not just about race but about religion and opinions. It also links to my life when I do things early and I get in trouble for that even though I’ve done something right not

First, Ruby felt estranged from her friends and the children at school after all the teachers and administrators shunned her because of the color of her skin. Bridges would leave home for school and would immediately be outcast by neighbors, store owners, even the school staff. At school Ruby would be held in a separate classroom because none of the other teachers wanted to teach a black girl. When Ruby went home after school, her old friends could not play with her because all the parents believed that she had broken the peace that had finally settled in her neighborhood. All in all, Ruby found the only way for her to cope with the estrangement: prayer.

The main theme of the book was racial tension. The white folks treated the black folks like they were dirt. Even older white folks treated the younger black children like dirt. I do not understand how any adult could hit a child, especially because of their color. One instance that really bothered me was when a white man almost raped Melba because she was black. It was in 1954, immediately after Brown vs. the Board of Education decision had came down. After that she said she was going to read the newspaper because she wanted to know when white men got angry. And sometimes she had to spend her own nickel for it. Another theme throughout the book could be determination. The nine children were determined to carry out integration. They did not give up. Some older black folks in the neighborhood faulted the nine children for the actual attempt of integration. They claimed that it made it harder than it already was to be black and living in Little Rock. For example, Melba’s neighbor Mrs. Floyd said to her after the first day at Central, “ Now You’ve had your lesson. You don’t have to go back to that awful school anymore.” Not only were they catching hell from the whites, they were catching just as much from the blacks as well. After the first day in the school being taunted and mistreated they could have not gone back. They put up a fight, as far as integration goes- they would not take no for an

First, Ruby was ostracized by white people, including her teachers and her peers. It´s was one elderly lady in the crowd with a doll in a box saying she gone kill her. Next, her teacher talks bad about her give her low test scored when she really made high on her test. Last, the other white parent came and got their kids from school. All in all, Ruby enjoyed her ostracized by showing she was

The people used tactics which would scare her. They used a black doll in a casket which Ruby said that was what affected her the most. Poison, there was a lady who said she was going to poison ruby in which made ruby stop eating anything other that packaged foods. Whites, shouted harmful words to the little brave girl in which it slowly started to change her look on life. All in All, ruby was threatened each day using different tactics each day.

Her parents hated it, there were scared people would do bad things to them and even worse her but at the same time they supported her and they were proud. Ruby knew she was just like everyone else, she didn't give up and she gave her parents faith that she could go to an “All-White” School and get a good

This book begins with the life of its author. She starts out as basically a slave child on a farm in Mississippi. She tells of her parent's lives, how they went to the fields at sun up and came back from them at sundown. She describes her abusive cousin, George Lee, and tells of a few traumatic childhood experiences. She goes on describing where her mother and fathers marital

I have covered this book with grades 8-9. Most students, upon learning the historical background of the story, become highly emotional about it, for good reason. It is truly a classic that has so much to teach people of all ages. The film, starring Gregory Peck, is also fantastic and recounts most of the same story as the book does. I highly recommend both the book and the film!

I attended fifth grade at Northside Elementary School, but was very excited to get over to Martha Brown Middle School!! I remember, even though I was excited to be in the sixth grade, I was nervous! I remember on the first day of middle school, I was lost trying to get to classes. I could not remember my locker combination and had to ask for help from the very tall Mr. O’Dell. I just felt that nervous because I could not remember what seat to sit in and the classes seemed like they were going to be difficult.

The next morning when Allie went onto the deck, she was surprised to see Charleston spread out along the docks. She immediately went in search of Thomas. She found him coming out of the galley carrying a tray.

Overall this book is good so far. Once I start reading it, I cannot put it down. It is a story that talks about the struggle of a young African-American girl named Shivana who is dealing with her poor lifestyle, going to school and being sexually active at such a young age. She is only fifteen and has been hooking up with a man who is married and has children. I found that this was so disturbing because I feel like Leroy (the married man) is using her for sex; he claims that he loves her but I am pretty sure he is doing it out of pleasure.