Yelled Melba's Triumphs In Warriors Don T Cry

“Help!” Yelled Melba as she was kicked and punched to the ground by a white boy. This dreadful even happens in Warriors Don’t Cry. Warriors Don’t Cry is a book by Melba about herself, a girl named Melba Pattillo Beals. Melba is a Negro who lives in Little Rock, Arkansas and is 15 years old. She grew up going to Horace Mann a “Colored” school that only people with black skin could go to. Melba decided that it was not fair, she wanted to go to school with the white kids. Melba wanted to get a better education, so she and 8 other students called the Little Rock Nine from Horace Mann went to Central High. The Little Rock Nine all experienced a very exhausting school year full of challenges, triumphs and allies.

Throughout the book Melba suffers

“Tonight i feel love for my own people. Everybody tried to make us happy. There is the tiniest flicker of hope and joy inside me.”(Beals p. 153) This quote is her triumph over all of the challenges she has gone through. Her heart still blazes on with joy and hope for the better tomorrow. Melba has gone through so much, but she still manages to keep a “flicker” of hope inside her burning heart. This hope inspired her to never give up and to carry on. Another example of Melba’s triumphs is. “At first we saw no difference, but we started to notice a bit of peace in the hallways.”(Beals p. 186) This is a good example of a triumph because it shows that the calls from Link and the avoiding of the white gangs have caused a whole lot of difference in the school. Melba has perfected a system of avoiding the bad occurrences that the hallways have almost become completely peaceful. Although she has had many triumphs, there were some people who helped her out to achieve

Her allies helped her out against her challenges and assisted in her triumphs. One example of an ally is. “I’m gonna call you Nigger loud. I’m gonna curse at you, but I’m gonna put my keys on the trunk of this car. My name is Link, I’ll call you later.”(Beals p. 172) This quote is a great example of an ally because Link is a random white boy who Melba thinks is like all the others, but he really isn't. Link gives her his car keys and tells her to escape from the boys who want to kill her. Later he tells her secrets about traps that the white kids had set up and warn her where not to go. Another example of an ally is. “Without my grandmother India Anette Peyton , I would not have survived my year at Central High.”(Beals p. 84-85) Melba’s grandmother played a big role in her childhood. She loved her and cared for her as she went through high school. Her grandmother gave her hope and inspiration, advice and warning, and most of all love. She cared for Melba so much and hated all of the torture that the black people