Turning points in life are usually difficult and challenging times and this idea of turning points is expressed in the story, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, the autobiography I Never Had it Made, by Jackie Robinson, and in the memoir, Warriors Don’t Cry, by Melba Pattillo Beals. Throughout history though, people have not only changed themselves, but they could’ve also changed their people and their country. Brian Robeson, as a result of being in the wilderness, became more manly. Jackie Robinson and Melba Pattillo Beals changed themselves, but doing so, also changed their country.
Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, a legendary story about 13-year-old Brian Robeson, who, during the summer, is on a bush plane to see his father in the oil fields of …show more content…
Additionally, she also faced racism, but unlike Robinson, she faced it, right in front of her eyes. In her book, Warriors Don’t Cry, the scene of racism was so real, the adults were openly crying. Not to mention them being greeted in the morning of September 25, 1957 by, “Fifty uniformed soldiers of the 101st.” (Beals) With an angry mob waiting to kill you, and fifty soldiers surrounding you to protect you is a lot of tension. They brought her, and some other black students to an all-white high school. She said she, “I felt proud and sad at the same time. Proud that I lived in a country that would go this far to bring justice to a Little Rock girl like me, but sad that they had to go to such great lengths.” (Beals) She knows how important this breakthrough of, “the color line” was. But, it was all just too much. She’s thinking, “It takes the military to bring justice to just me and a few other black students. All that for us?” But, ignores that and became determined to take forward steps for her people. Although this was one little step for her people and she had little power over anything, she braved new territories for new racial classifications and attitudes, and a little step for a fully integrated country, one step at a
Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, a legendary story about 13-year-old Brian Robeson, who, during the summer, is on a bush plane to see his father in the oil fields of …show more content…
Additionally, she also faced racism, but unlike Robinson, she faced it, right in front of her eyes. In her book, Warriors Don’t Cry, the scene of racism was so real, the adults were openly crying. Not to mention them being greeted in the morning of September 25, 1957 by, “Fifty uniformed soldiers of the 101st.” (Beals) With an angry mob waiting to kill you, and fifty soldiers surrounding you to protect you is a lot of tension. They brought her, and some other black students to an all-white high school. She said she, “I felt proud and sad at the same time. Proud that I lived in a country that would go this far to bring justice to a Little Rock girl like me, but sad that they had to go to such great lengths.” (Beals) She knows how important this breakthrough of, “the color line” was. But, it was all just too much. She’s thinking, “It takes the military to bring justice to just me and a few other black students. All that for us?” But, ignores that and became determined to take forward steps for her people. Although this was one little step for her people and she had little power over anything, she braved new territories for new racial classifications and attitudes, and a little step for a fully integrated country, one step at a