"Shortly after Mr. Claxton left, the church ladies arrived with baskets of food. "So's the white people won't catch you'all shopping and chop your heads off," Mrs. Floyd said with an acidic smile as she brushed past me. She was grandma's very good friend, but she wasn't at all in favor of integration. "We have our place, and we do best when we stay in it," she said. Her words made me tense up, but i knew she meant well. She had no way of knowing about last night's shooting and how much the things she said hurt my feelings."- Page 69-70
I thought this passage was very interesting because it shows several aspects of Melba's life and integration. First, I think it is interesting that everyone feels it is okay to tell her their opinion on integration. Whether it is good or bad. It is a lot of pressure to put on a 16 year old. In the passage she states that what she said hurt her feelings. When people give her their opinion and its negative I don't think they realize what kind of pressure they put on her. There is no way I could be able to handle the pressure of integration at my age. I also think that Melba couldn't have done what she did if her grandmother and her family didn't support her like they did.
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