The beginning of page 250 starts with the friendship created between Melba and Link. Link is the White boy that rescues Melba from falling into the hands of malicious Andy and his playmates. In the last few chapters of the book, Melba learns to not let her racist classmates irritate or scare her anymore. Instead, she imitates Gandhi and shuts all her ring leaders down with acute words. No longer does Andy or Danny phase Melba. In addition, Vince comes back into the picture during Easter. Melba and Vince sit together at church reminiscing on their old days when things were perfect. Also Melba and her eight friends are waiting to see if they can all graduate from Central High. Bigots don't want the Nine to graduate and thus plan to stop them from arriving at graduation by organizing a shooting the night before. Whites thought that if they let the Nine graduate, then there wouldn't be an ending to integration. Overall, the Little Rock Nine graduate from Central High and go on to pursue and do great things. Melba once again integrates San Francisco University where the colored people were only the cooks. Last but not least, Melba marries a White man and has a little girl by the name of Kellie. Although Patillo divorced from John, she still supports Kellie immensely. At last Melba attended Columbia University's Journalism School and became a great news reporter for NBC News.
Quote:
"Six months later I had married this bright, kind, green-eyed marital arts expert"( Patillo 311).
Reaction:
This quote completely portrays irony. In fact, after all the maltreatment Melba has been imposed to, she still marries a White man. In other words, Melba saw the obstacles she surpassed as lessons in life. They made her stronger and more receptive. Although many other Blacks would have not dated a White man, Melba had the effrontery to. She was nonchalant of her past and bloomed into a great women of experience. This irony definitely helped me get closer to Melba. I would have never thought Melba would have been such a dynamic character. In particular, Melba has a Bildungs Roman moment in the middle of the book and to top things off she ends her memoir with an ironic twist. This was definitely an amazing book that I would recommend other teenagers to read. It really changed me as a person! Woah
No comments:
Post a Comment