Central High

Brick-covered columns all across the top of Little Rock's Central High School are among the building's trademarks, but for Rock, they had become an impediment to his progress. His sense of balance had recently limited him. In this circumstance, it made him hesitant to make so much as a simple maneuver around the columns. He knew that, despite the simplicity of the steps required, a failure of balance would likely result in a fall of fifty or more feet to the concrete walkways below.
Rock was overwhelmed by fear and frustration. He wasn't sure how he would ever get down from the top of this building.