Summary Of Melba Patillo Beals 'Warriors Don' T Cry

In Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals, the character Link fascinated me. In a time of bigotry and segregation, Link steps out of the status quo to help Melba, a black student at Central High. Throughout the last fifth of the novel he cautions Melba as to what will happen to her throughout the day and tells her how she can avoid these issues. “My dad makes me go to those meetings-where they plan what to do to get ya’ll kicked out of school,” Link explains on page 263 how he is prescient about segregationists action. Although he was raised by a family who did not support the racial integration, he acted on behalf of the integrating students. A fraction of his motivation was that his black nanny - Nana Healey - who he had known for all