Melba Pattillo Beals uses language in Warriors Don't Cry that gets her story across easily. She uses powerful words during the extreme parts of her story, and she uses relaxed words during the normal parts, which means she did not sugar coat her story. Her book is also different from others who write about themselves because it is a memoir, not exactly an autobiography. She tells the memories of her life, and that makes the tone of the book to be real and just like a teenage girl's mind. Therefore, her language can be as unique as she wants, because it's her story. This makes her literary devices to appear more vivid and real unlike other storys where they are fiction, this is real. One of my favorite literary devices used in the story is
