Graduation Speech: Warriors Don T Cry

Right now in class we are reading warriors don't cry and Melba Pattillo Beal. Her story is how she has to go to a white segregated school to try to integrate it and she finds her strength in her mom and grandmother and brother. her family helped her get threw her years at little rock central high school. All of the stuff that Melba went through was so we could have a better and brighter future. It must have been so hard to deal with the hatred of the other students and their parents. If it were me, I would have given up, but to know that there are people that will risk their lives for the sake of others makes me want to do more to help people. Challenges that I face is trying to keep up my grades because out of all the subjects I'm only good at one and that doesn't make it easy to pass so I have to work hard. I find strength in thinking about the future, so that I can motivate myself and work harder to achieve what I want to do in the future. I'm inspired by my mother because no matter how many business meetings don’t go her way she never gives up. She tells me every time I see her that I'm an intelligent child and that she loves me. She believes in me and that makes me think about the future and that’s what motivates me to work harder. Although these challenges are hard to face if you face them and …show more content…
Sometimes I have to think about the future because I want to go somewhere and the only way to do that is work hard and finish school. Once in 3rd grade I was taking a test and there was so much reading involved, I could barley get threw it. Of course I failed it. I try my hardest to get better at reading, but it's hard, but I keep thinking about the future and I have grown a lot since the beginning of the year. I'm proud of myself, but I need to grow more. I read books above my level so I can get better my mom told me if I read above my level then it will help and it