Warriors Dont Cry is a non-fictional story about a girl who is chosen to integrate to an all white highschool. When she arrive to Central High School she is quickly met with problems such as riots, hatred and attacks. Melba is accompanied by eight other kids in a group called the little rock nine. Melba and the rest of the little rock nine face many adversities throughout the remainder of the school year. As the story progresses Melba gradually changed to be stronger, more hopeful, and overall more patient.
Throughout the story Melba deals with alot of the racism during the course of her life, but attending Central High has made her grow thicker skin. She shows weakness torwards the beginning of the story by crying in front of Grandma India because she is afraid of being a target of an attack, Grandma India says “Gods warriors dont cry” and explained how she is not just attending Central High, but how she was fighting a battle for the future of black people in the U.S. To go to Central she knew she had to be tougher than the average teenager. At the end of the story Melba quotes “Namaste” (the god in me sees and honors the god in you), this means I bow to you in the Indian culture. By her saying this it means that she has put aside everything that white people have done to her and forgave them. Melba
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In the beginning of the story Melba didnt have alot of hope that attending Central was a good idea, because of all the riots and threats against her family. When Melba told her grandmother that she wanted to go back to Horace Mann she tells melba that nothing will change if she does. When Melba attends the court hearing on the integration case she tells reporters that she has every right to go to Central High School. Melba grows more hopeful in the story because she felt as if nothing good was going to come from going to Central but then she feels like she has the right to be