Warriors Don't Cry

In reflection of the reading, the title Warriors Don't Cry is a perfect for this text and nails the events at Central High spot on. Quite frankly, it really doesn't matter what the exact definition of "warrior" is( a person engaged in warfare or soldier) people use it out of context all the time. It is usually used more in a general description in our current society with athletes, soldiers, and even the everyday hardships of life. Kellen Winslow, an NFL player, once compared himself to a soldier, something in which the media blew up and claimed that he was out of line. Warrior could follow under the same suite if someone were to use it out of line. I don't think it was used out of context for the title of this book.
The word really evolved from the gladiators and people who were laying it on the line for a certain cause.Most in our society look at warriors as armed men going up against the enemy in honor for their motherland. It is a matter of life and death and they will forever be remembered as a hero.Melba, no doubt, is laying something on the line, in fact everything. She has the ability to blur out the negatives in her life and oversee the hardships as she is sacrificing for the bigger cause: having segregation between black and white high school students in the south. The hardships she underwent can't be put into words, not even 312(in the downtown Sioux City Library's edition).
Melba has a burning inside of her to change what is going on around her, something that will eventually evolve into her wanting a change in whats going on around her. She has seen her family get taken at the grocery store and her father lay down, without even saying a word. With almost being raped, you knew there was going to be an uprising with Melba in the eye of the tornado.
When she does integrate into the depths of Central High in Little Rock, she is tormented, beaten, and shaken in a way that not a lot of people can handle without breaking. One of nine original African Americans sent into a sea of white faces, it was those students that the entire nation was watching.
With the events that took place, there was much psychology that went into the decision making of how this was going to get handled. One of the ways, enter in the second half of the books title, was to keep the heads held high and "keep on keeping on."  It is viewed that when you cry, in most cases, you show weakness. This is what a guard, Danny, had taught her during her time at Central High. Melba was taught this by her grandmother and mother and the idea was forced on her by society, knowing that if she took a wrong step or made a wrong move, it could result in death.
Most, not all, understand the hardships of what had happened during the integration movement in America. They also understand what is taking place Americas Indian reservations today. Some might be arrogant and might want to see it but they know its there. This book has several similarities linked to our last book we read in class, The Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Both books do a great job in making the reader think outside the box and put them in the shoes of the narrator. With one being fiction and one being non, it is asked do these two books get the same kind of acknowledgement and respect in reading them. In my"world view" I know that what Junior expressed goes on in the Indian community. But some readers might look at the book and say "that doesn't happen..it's made up..only in the movies, etc." Where as if they had that same thought process about the south in the 50's and 60's, reading this book would change their view because IT DID HAPPEN. That's the difference between the two books. Some readers would view it this way.

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