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• The settings on the book is on Little Rock, Arkansas.
• In early 1950s.

MELBA PATILLO BEALS

• Over the course of Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba transitions from a normal teenage girl to a hardened warrior.
• Melba learns to give up all of the things that other teenagers care about—friends, free time, boyfriend.
• Melba quickly learns that she will not have a normal high school experience.
• She has a single purpose: to survive to the end of the year.

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SUMMARY

• The book is about segregation in America, the main character is Melba, a black teenager from Arkansas.
• She was descriminated almost everyday.
• She attended for Central High School to help her people with the integration.
• She faced a lot of problems there.
• After graduating from high school, Beals relocated to California, where she went to college and married a white man named John.

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2ND CONFLICT

• Minijean threw chili into a white students face at lunch. This was an internal conflict because she saw it happen
• to Minijean but she didn’t do anything because she would’ve gotten it back from the white kids.
• After it happened Melba felt bad that she didn’t jump in and stop it,
• but in the end it would’ve started something else that would be worse.

THEME

• The theme of the book is overcome racism and social injustice.

LUCAS OPINION

• The book is good, it's a good lesson about racism and how a group of people can be so hated
• I liked to see how Melba deal with the situations she had been through and how she fixed.

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2 PASSAGES ABOUT MELBA

• " I was born on Pearl Harbor day"
• When she was born she had infection.
• The white doctors would not treat her.

PASSAGES THAT SET THE SETTING OR MOOD

• " I'll show you niggers the Supreme Court
• Can't run my life."
• This sets the mood because the name calling.
• White people called them niggers to intimidate them.

SETTING AND MOOD

• The setting matches the mood.
• The mood is sad and depressing.
• The setting is loud and scary for Melba.

PLOT

• "Niggers go home! Niggers, go
• Back where you belong"
• This quote