Turning Point In 'Warriors Don T Cry'

What is a turning point in life? And how does it change and impact on others’ lives? A turning point can be described as a dramatic change in life that might change someone’s life forever by letting them face a life-changing event. In the autobiography “I Never Had It Made” by Jackie Robinson, the memoir “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Pattillo Beals, and the article “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel, the people introduced in the stories all faced turning points in their lives that had impacted on them greatly. In all these three pieces of text, the people introduced in the stories had fought through racial tension and worked hard in order to accomplish their success and faced the life-changing experiences in their lives. They

This life-changing experience challenged Beals to face racism and in doing so she built confidence and built up her character. Many were against blacks to go to school with whites at the time, this point is proven in paragraph thirteen, the text states, “Some white people looked totally horrified, while some raised their fists at us, and some shouted ugly words.” This text shows the racial tension Beals and her friends faced during the time. These events had helped Beals to grow and develop pride in her country and understood the sacrifice her country had made for equal rights. In paragraph sixteen, Beals states, “I felt proud and sad at the same time, proud that I lived in a country that would go this far to bring justice to a Little Rock girl like me, sad that they had to go such great lengths.” This quote shows that Beals was appreciating how her country had helped to give justice and equal rights to her. She responded to these events by ending racism and persevering through challenges to get equal education in order to respond to the hard work and sacrifices of her country and her people had made for her. Beals’s reactions impacted on her country and society because it was a life-changing event for all people, her emotions and actions impacts on her

The Chinese Aviator Feng Ru also had a life-changing experience when he immigrated from China to the United States and was inspired by industrialization.This knowledge and the factor of others motivated him to build design and fly a plane in order to impact on others. The events of natural disasters, homesickness, racism, bad working condition, and being in a poor environment had challenged Feng to work hard, to move from place to place, and to learn another new language that he did not know. In paragraph six, it states,“He had to relocate his workshop in Oakland because of San Francisco’s massive earthquakes.” This explains the fact that Feng had to move around from places to places because of the natural disasters and other factors that had stopped his work. These events caused him to grow and develop by motivating him to try harder, never give up, and to pursue his dream of becoming the father of Chinese Aviation. In paragraph nine, “He assembled the parts himself, his discretion paid off; Feng’s successful test flights were covered by the mainstream press, and his work was praised by revolutionary Sun Yat-Sen. Feng responded to these events by trying harder, facing new challenges, persevering, and bringing perfection to his plane. In paragraph five,”He laboriously translated into Chinese everything he could find on the Wrights, Glenn Curtiss and later, French aircraft