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Warriors Don't Cry

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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WARRIORS DONT CRY

  • Author: Melba Pattillo Beals
  • Danielle Shaver & Haley Yeazel
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SETTING:

  • Warriors don't cry takes place in Little Rock Arkansas
  • In the early 1950s.
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MAIN CHARACTER:

  • The main character is Melba Patillo Beals.
  • Melba fights racism her whole life.
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QUOTES

  • "Please, God let me learn how to stop being a warrior
  • Sometimes I just need to be a girl"
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QUOTES

  • "Dear God we can't get along without you. I'm
  • counting on you once and for all to make it clear
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  • you want me to in that school or not."
  • Pg 60
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SUPPORTING CHARACTER #1

  • Melba's grandmother influenced her the most
  • She helped her and supported her with her racism issues.
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QUOTES

  • "I'll keep watch again tonight"
  • Pg 46
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QUOTES

  • "Gods warriors don't cry"
  • Pg 44.
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SUPPORTING CHARACTER #2

  • Melba's mother also went through to same thing on college.
  • Her mother was also a teacher at a Little Rock High School.
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QUOTE #1

  • "We have to find the others" pg 36
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QUOTE #2

  • "Get to the car and leave without me if you have to"
  • Pg 38
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SUPPORTING CHARACTER #3

  • Danny was Melba's body guard.
  • Her body guard protected her from any racist people that would try to
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  • her.
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QUOTE #1

  • "Easy, girl, easy. You're gonna be fine"
  • Pg 122
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QUOTE #2

  • "Calm down you can do what you want but."
  • Pg 122
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BRIEF SUMMARY

  • Warriors don't cry is about a young girl named
  • Melba Pattilo that is treated very poorly in the 1950s
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  • Melba and a few others became known as the "Little Rock Nine".
  • They went to central high school and they were the only blacks there.
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  • Melba went through a lot of fights and being treated unfairly
  • but she made it through with her will power and friends and family.
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  • "I noticed it written all over the mirror with lipstick
  • was "Nigger go home." Pg 99
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CONFLICT MELBA OVERCAME

  • When Melba went to the bathroom one day she looked up and saw
  • Balls of paper on fire coming down at her head and girls around her
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  • Screaming bombs away!
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QUOTE

  • "Bombs away!" Someone shouted above me. I looked up to
  • See a flaming paper wad coming right down on me. Girls were leaning
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  • Over the tops of the stalls on either side of me."
  • Pg. 119
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THEME:

  • To never give up. That you can face your fears and get through it.
  • Melba didn't want to go to school everyday but she did. She faced her
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  • fears. She knows people there don't like mixed colors but she
  • does what she knows is right and what she deserves.
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  • "You've gotta learn to defend yourself. You kids should have been given
  • some training in self-defense" pg 113
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DID WE LIKE THIS BOOK?

  • Yes, because in the end the school ended up getting closed down
  • which made it partially fair as in if blacks can't go there than neither
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  • can whites. Blacks and whites should be able to be treated the same
  • because it's just a skin color. God made everyone equal and that's how
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  • the world should be.

Haley Yeazel