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In Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba Patillo Beals uses direct and indirect characterization to generate Melba’s character. Melba’s characterization proposes her ideas about her search for freedom and equality. In the memoir, Beals portrays the idea that both personal strength, faith, and independence are necessary character traits in her fight for freedom and equality. In Warriors Don’t Cry, Beals depict the idea that personal strength is often hidden by fear but can be revealed unintentionally. “My heart

town of Little Rock, Arkansas during the 1957 school year. Nine black students volunteered to integrate into Central High. This constant struggle to turn the Supreme Court ruling into a societal norm was documented by one of the Little Rock Nine. Melba Pattillo Beals’s novel, Warriors Don’t Cry, depicts the forces in favor of integration, forces opposing integration, and the constant adversity faced by the Little Rock Nine. The multiple forces in favor of integration were determined to gain access

In Warriors Don't Cry, Melba Patillo Beals presents the idea that both religion and bravery are necessary character traits in her fight for freedom and equality. In Warriors Don't Cry, Melba Patillo Beals presents the idea that religion gives strength to those who need it to persevere through rough times. When faced with an issue, Grandma India reminds Melba that her issues "can be washed away with a prayer and a smile" (164) and to "feel God's love for us, even in the face of those who spewed so

mentality and physically, the book warriors don't cry is a story of a young girl melba pattillo Beals who is a african american student who integrated to a all white high school along with 8 other students, melba and her friends are harmed mentally and physically at little rock. And they still managed to make the best out of their situation through positive change for example when a group of students dieced to gang up on melba and beat her up a white person named link dieced to help her, instead of joining

In Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, Melba retells the story as a fifteen year old attending her first year at Central High School. She describes her year as she is tortured by most of her white classmates, with racial slurs and acts of violence, such as pinning her to a wall or putting glass shards on her seat. Throughout the story, she loses sight of what is important to her, her loved ones and her childhood. In the end, she must stay strong to survive her school year at Central High

Little Rock Nine students, illustrate innocent individuals that are often succumbed to abusive power, thus needing to remain tough. In accordance to the novel, Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba states, “Please, God, let me learn how to stop being a warrior. Sometimes I just need to a girl” (Beals, 147). This confession from Melba herself uses “warrior”, a symbolic finding, that represents the strength that the Little Rock Nine students had. Frequently, we associate the word “warrior”, as a soldier fighting

little details she putting the book. Melba Pattillo Beals did such a great job writing this and I am glad she took her journal and decide to write about it. There are so many African Americans that I go to school with now including myself that take the right to go to school for granted. I take it for granted because it was something I never had to fight for. IN the book the fact that she put her name

Melba Pattillo Beals wrote Warriors Don’t Cry. Melba Beals was one of the Little Rock nine who were the first colored students to attend an all white school. Very few people were in favor of this and treated them horribly. One example is, “The flaming wads of paper were coming at me faster and faster… I picked up my books and tossed one upward as hard as I could, in a blind aim to hit my attackers.” Melba has so much determination. It seems as though

Blind Side, Michael Oher had to persevere through many hard situations with no one believing in him. If Michael would have gave up then he would not be the NFL superstar he is today. Warriors Don’t Cry is a short story about the little rock nine. Melba Pattillo Beals was one of the nine kids integrating Central High School, she was abused physically and mentally. If she would not have persevered during these times schools would still probably be segregated. The Clever Class is a book about a girl

life-changing event that can have a negative or positive outcome on a person. In the autobiography, “I Never Had It Made”, by Jackie Robinson, the memoir, “Warriors Don’t Cry”, By Melba Pattillo Beals, and the article, “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel each of the individuals faced turning points. Jackie Robinson, Melba Pattillo Beals, and Feng Ru all faced life-changing experiences that changed both their lives and their countries. 2. Jackie Robinson’s life changed when he became the first