Warriors Don T Cry By Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson

Have you ever had a life-changing experience that was too hard to handle? Sometimes, life-changing experiences can be difficult and challenging. This happened to three individuals, Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru. Their life-changing experiences can be explored in the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, the autobiography I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson, and the article “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel, highlighting Feng Ru. Although Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru faced crucial life-changing experiences, they were able to overcome them, and in doing so, changed their lives and countries.

Melba Pattillo Beals, an American hero, helped integrate schools and improved

In the autobiography I Never Had It Made made my Robinson, he tells the reader about the obstacles and difficulties he faced in his life-changing experience. Since Robinson was black, his teammates rejected him initially. He says, in paragraph 3, that “some of my teammates refused to accept me because I was black. I had been forced to live with snubs and buffs and rejections” (Robinson). Robinson would also receive hate and racism from other people as well, like other players. In paragraph 3, it states, “it hadn't been that easy to fight the resentment expressed by players on other teams, by the team owners, or by bigoted fans screaming ‘n----” (Robinson). But even with this violence, Robinson had support as well. He states, “black people supported me with total loyalty. They supported me morally: they came to sit in a hostile audience in unprecedented numbers to make the turnstiles hum” (Robinson) in paragraph 4. As people realized how well Robinson played, and how much profits increased, people started to accept him. Robinson notices how much he has been a symbol to African Americans, and how he was in “the hurricane eye of a significant breakthrough” (Robinson). Jackie Robinson was not only an important player in Major League Baseball, but an important figure in American

Feng Ru was a Chinese immigrant, and a self-taught engineer when he moved to the America. He was “‘staggered by America’s power and prosperity. He understood that industrialization made the country great, and felt that industrialization could do the same for China’” (Maksel) as it says in paragraph 4. Because of this, “‘he went east to learn all he could about machines, working in shipyards, power plants, machine shops, anywhere he could acquire mechanical knowledge’” (Maksel), as said in paragraph 4 as well. Feng initially started developing alternate other versions of different inventions, such as the telephone, but later turning to aviation after hearing about the Wright brothers’ success. In paragraph 5, it states, “But upon hearing of the Wright brothers’ success, Feng turned his attention to aviation, laboriously translating into Chinese anything he could find on the Wrights, Glenn Curtiss and, later, French aircraft designer Henri Farman.” In 1906, Feng Ru established an aircraft factory, designing and building airplanes on his own. This was a challenge, however, because of the San Francisco earthquake, had to relocate. In paragraph 16, it states, “San Francisco’s massive earthquake and resulting fire forced him to relocate to Oakland instead…” (Maksel). Feng had to rebuild his workshop, funded by Chinese businessmen. He “erected his