Warriors Don 'T Cry' By Melba Pattillo Beals: An Analysis

Turning points can be awful events or positive events. This idea was expressed in the story “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Pattillo Beals, the autobiography of “I Never Had it Made” by Jackie Robinson, plus the story “The Father of Chinese of Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel. Jackie Robinson, Feng Ru, and Melba Pattillo Beals all faced many turning points, in this case, they changed their country.

Jackie Robinson decided to be the first African-American player in the M.L.B. and faced discrimination. He faced discrimination from the teammates, ballplayers, and fans and he also he is forced to endure taunting racism and threat to his family. “I was forced to live with snubs, rebuffs, and rejection”. Jackie Robinson faced threat from many people and Mr.Rickey had helped Jackie Robinson overcome discrimination by putting down rebellions and let his teammate know that anyone who didn’t want to accept Jackie Robinson could leave. Even though he face insults from many people in the stand, but he still has to keep calm. “It was one thing for me out there on the playing field to be able to keep my cool in the faces of insult.”

He has to keep calm and ignore the insults that people yelled at him because if he had replied the fans would me more menace to Jackie Robinson and his family. Jackie Robinson had to face many turning points like insults and rejections, but people are beginning to accept him more and more until they all liked him.

Like Jackie Robinson, Melba Pattillo Beals also faced discrimination from people everywhere and she one of the first African American to be integrated at Little Rock Central High School. She was treated badly and being yelled at, some people even shouted ugly, or horrible words at the little rock nine. “Some of the white people looked totally horrified, while others raised their fist to us. Others shouted ugly words.”People are treating them badly and don't respect the Little Rock Nine and her mother plus other adults are crying out loud and said prayers to keep them safe. It was a sad moment because Melba saw her mother crying, but she couldn’t go back and comfort her. After the Screaming Eagle Division of the 101st led them through the crowd they walked on the concrete path toward the front door of the school. “ Step by step we climbed upward-where none of my people had ever before walked as a student.” It was the first time that her people had ever walked up as a student and she was very excited. It was also the threshold that angry mobs prevented them from going inside the school Melba Pattillo Beals and the other eight students had the courage to walk up to where their people had never been to before and they are very brave and faced hardship, while also discrimination.

Like Beals Feng Ru also faced many hardships.

He has to go to many places to learn about how machines work so that he can know how the mechanics work in the airplane. “So he went east to learn all he could about machines, working in shipyards, power plants, machine shops, anywhere he could acquire mechanical knowledge.” He has to work hard because he wanted to be better at building a plane and know what part to connect with the plane. He also has to work hard to be able to build a plane and study hard. “Who rarely finished work before 3 a.m.” This quote shows that Feng Ru has to work until 3 a.m. in the morning and in the quote it also stated the word rarely, so that shows us Feng Ru always finish work later than 3 a.m. Feng Ru, at last, was named the Father of the Chinese Aviation and China appreciate all his hard work and is also

thankful.

In conclusion, Jackie Robinson, Melba Pattillo Beals, and Feng Ru all faced many turning points and challenges. Feng Ru faced hardship and death. Jackie Robinson has to keep cool in the face of insults. Melba Pattillo Beals have to face angry segregationist mobs. They all had impacted their country and inspired many people to make the right choice.