Grandma India Research Paper

Without Grandma India, Melba would not have been able to integrate the Central High School. Here are some of the things that Grandma India did. She had given Melba the encouragement, stubbornness, and faith that was needed to carry on throughout her school year. . Grandma India did many things for Melba and her family, to support them and keep Melba in integration. One of the many things that Grandma had done was sitting next to the side yard of the house with her shotgun Mr. Higgen bottoms. How willing she must have been sitting up all night, many nights in a row, just so the future generations could go to school with the “more advanced students”? What would it have felt like to have to protect your family from intruders that are out to get you? It would be hard on a body and family to go through something like an integration. When going through an integration it takes a family effort. Along with the family …show more content…
For instance, when Melba said, “I wish I were dead” because of the fact that the integration was so difficult. If grandma India hadn’t said good about her committing suicide, then who knows what could have happened. She seemed to know that Melba was just feeling sorry for herself and just wanting for someone to feel bad for her too. Melba could have potentially given up on life and give in to what the whites were saying about the blacks. All of there cursing calling them cruel names, beating them, and threatening to kill them.. The potential for getting used and abused was great, along with getting killed. So grandma India’s attitude had potentially saved Melba’s life and saved the other black students a lot of pain. Grandma India had a never giving up, never backing down kinda attitude, which showed Melba that is how her attitude should be towards the integration in order for her to integrate the