My belief is that Rosa Parks wrote this story to provide information about the truth and why she stood up for the color of her skin on the bus. In the story she thinks ''back to the time when I used to sit up all night and didn't sleep, and my grandfather would have his gun right by the fireplace, or if he had his one-horse wagon going anywhere, he always had his gun in the back of the wagon'' this makes me to believe that Parks realizes that sometimes one must be prepared to fight back. Parks also says that some people see her as a old lady and that she was tired from work. But really she says that '' I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image