Question

Read the excerpt from Warriors Don't Cry. I had been patiently waiting, hoping that at any moment my grandmother would signal her approval of my grown-up outfit, upswept hairdo, and high-heeled black patent shoes. Layers of forbidden makeup and dark glasses completed what I thought was the perfect disguise. The white people would never, ever recognize me from any picture they might have seen. What is the central idea of the excerpt

Answer 1

A. The narrator longs to be unnoticed in public.

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Answer 2

The narrator longs to be unnoticed in public.

Step-by-step explanation:

Melba Pattillo Beals gave an autobiographical account of her experience of racism and segregation in "Warriors Don't Cry". The book delves into her personal account of the integration of schools in America, especially in Arkansas' Little High Rock School.

In the given excerpt from the autobiography, Beals reveals her reluctance to be 'visible'. She reveals how she wore a "grown-up outfit, upswept hairdo, and high-heeled black patent shoes" just to be like the other girls in school. This "perfect disguise", a disguise using "layers of forbidden makeup and dark glasses" was to be not "recognized" by the white people.

The secrecy, the efforts she made to be the same as other girls show how Beals wanted to be unnoticed in public.