The Importance Of Strength In Literature

Reading the content in this book made me get a picture of what it was like to be a colored person in this time. My eyes were opened to the meaning of the word “nigga”. Nigga is such a derogatory term, yet now-a-days it is used by people so much. Kids in this generation use it as a term of endearment when they see their friends, or they say it when they are shocked by something. Frankly, I don’t believe they know how serious it really is. The fact that white people could look at a person and see less than a human being when they did nothing wrong distresses me. They (white people) treated them as if they were property and below them. Even though we don’t have racism to this extent

“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.” - Jesse Jackson. In 1957, nine black students were chosen to integrate into Central High School, a completely white school mostly made up of segregationists. Throughout the next year, the main character, Melba Pattillo Beals, in her memoir, “Warriors Don’t Cry”, shows her difficult adventure in Central High, trying to survive from the malicious segregationists. Beals uses different forms of figurative languages, such as metaphors, similes, and irony to show her struggles, but also imagine a hopeful future later to come.

And so, rather than try to reason with those who thought she was a lesser being, Brown appealed to their egos. She would create stories of helpless uneducated slaves and their white “protectors,” dismissing her heritage to appease whites. By acting “white”, and twisting the beliefs of white supremacists to her benefit, Brown rose to a prominent education position. To gain respect she was forced to give up part of her identity. She rebranded herself as a New Englander to distance herself from slavery. When taking students into the city, they “…did not mingle with Greensboro’s African Americans…” Brown taught her students the ideals she practiced, in hopes that they too might find a reputable place in the Jim Crow South.

In the beginning chapters of the book, we get a glimpse of the typical home and community of an African American during segregation. Many Africans Americans were too adjusted to the way of living, that they felt

The first thing that can be observed upon glancing at George Lewis's book “Massive resistance” is its cover image. It is a photograph of elementary school children and women protesting against desegregation in New Orleans in 1960. The main focus of the picture depicts two women yelling loudly along a sidewalk. At their side, a young schoolboy holds a poster that reads: "All I want for Christmas is a clean white school." Other women and children stand in the background. One person is holding a poster that refers to states' rights, as others gaze toward the street. Two women are attending the event wearing handkerchiefs and curlers, indicating that they possibly had rushed out of their homes to partake in the morning's activities. Above the scene is the book's title, Massive Resistance. To a reader who might be unfamiliar with the general topic of this book, the cover’s text and image might illustrate somewhat of a contradiction. What people fail to consider is that 'massive resistance' did not solely amount to what is visible in the photograph on the book's cover. This does not depict all that stood in the way of African-Americans struggling to gain their civil rights. Women and children yelling from sidewalks with posters was one of many responses used by American Southerners in opposition

All of theses people were crammed into one diner, and they did nothing but sit and be ridiculed by the white people opposing them and they took the ridicule without fighting back to enhance their

Also like Jackie, Beals had a life-changing experience, she was going to be one of the first African American students to attend an all-white school in Little Rock Arkansas. On her way to becoming one of the first African Americans to attend an all-white school, people did many hateful things to her. She had to be brave and confident to accomplish her goal of becoming the first African American to integrate into an all-white school. In paragraph eighteen, Beals states, ”We stepped up the front door of Central High School and crossed the threshold into that place angry segregationist mobs had forbidden us to go.” The “segregationist mobs” tried to prevent Beals’s entry into the school, which is a challenging event. These events caused Beals to grow and develop into one of the pioneers to integrate into an all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. In paragraph eighteen the text states, “Where none of my people had ever walked before as a student.” Beals’s reactions impacted her society by ending segregation in schools across the country. In paragraph sixteen, Beals states, “I felt proud and sad at the same time, Proud that I lived in a country that would go this far to bring justice to a Little Rock girl like me. But sad they had to go to such great lengths.” Her reactions impacted her society because now that the United States

Some parents of the people that segregated black people taught their children that these people weren’t smart they were smelly don’t trust them all of these things weren’t true ,but that’s what they were taught from a young age. These conflicts really started to happen in 1863 when president Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. In the 1960s there was a little black girl who went to school during this time, and her white teacher even said “Lincoln should have never freed the slaves.’’ Then again those people were taught those things

Though many white men fight with violence, all black men must fight back with acceptance and love, which poses significant physical threat to the black man. The nonviolent black man is brave enough to act on what he knows: a black man is no better or worse than a white man. By acting rationally and without violence, a person can authentically maintain his or her dignity by being respectful, courageous, and accepting. These qualities are especially admirable when they exist in all areas of a person’s life, even in the face of physical danger, violence, and fear. When a person chooses to act on what he or she knows is right, this person understands that “to act is to be committed,” but “to be committed is to be in danger” (9). A white American man takes no risk in claiming that an African American is inferior, especially since his fundamental reason for believing so, that the black

As many of you may know today is a day for rebellion, against the slums, the ghettos, the bloody heels of crying children and bad jobs, today we arise as a nation for freedom and equality to stand against segregation. Today we rebel against the aggressors, to make a stand, so that every man, of any race may stand, and coexist as equals. Almost one hundred years ago all of the African Americans made free by the emancipation proclamation. But yet today one hundred, One Hundred, years later we still have to use the colored bathroom, the colored bars, the colored water fountains, and sit on the back of the bus.

“A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the size of their

On the first day that Melba Patillo Beals went to school, she thought it was a nightmare. There was a huge mob outside Central High School, along with the Arkansas National Guard soldiers keeping them out. The image of Elizabeth Eckford really shows how it was. White people were surrounding them, cursing at them, of course saying the word “nigger”, and occasionally striking them (1994). It was so bad that Melba had to take the keys to their car from her mother and run away to escape. Imagine the sight of Melbas mother screaming at her “Melba, take the keys. Get to the car.

The Racist Leaflet was distributed in Birmingham, a segregated neighborhood, by white supremacists who were involved in the KKK and/or White Citizens' Council. This defamatory act against the protests of the Civil Rights Movement shows the fear white supremacists had of the possibility of a desegregated Birmingham. It symbolizes efforts of white supremacists to protect White America by denigrating the legitimacy of sit-in demonstrations through the use of racist depictions and caricatures to perpetuate negative beliefs about black people. The title, "Rules for Conduct for Sit Down Demonstrations", mocks the self-policing of civil rights activists had to do in order to appear non-threatening to be humanized and diminishes the effectiveness of

Throughout all of my years of high school I have acquired many important skills and strengths specifically and your class I have learned my specific strength which include an interest and the material comprehension of vocabulary and text and a good understanding of Old English and Shakespeare Shakespearean text these strengths help me to understand and appreciate the importance of the literary of this literature these literary text help people understand history and the great age of dark Romantics literacy and that is what this class is all about and I feel that those strengths will help me truly benefit and strive for greatness in your class. Migrate comprehension of vocabulary helps me in your class when I am reading a difficult text it also helps me to better understand the context of the text that we read the the difficulty of the text is a great opportunity to learn new skills. My vocabulary also helps two make a determination on how I feel about the books that we read like in Dante's Inferno I decided that I like the book because I understood it when I don't understand text I don't make an effort to understand the story and literary devices inside of the text. I found that there was a lot of difficult vocabulary in Macbeth but I found that I understood most of the literary most of the vocabulary and that was helpful to understand the story. So I believe that my great comprehension of vocabulary is a strength that I have that is important to this class.

What is Fiction: “Literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people. Something that is invented or untrue” (Oxford University Press, 2017).