Bad Boy - A Memoir As a boy, Walter Dean Myers was quick-tempered and physically strong, always ready for a fight. He also read voraciously-he would check out books from the library and carry them home, hidden in brown paper bags in order to avoid other boys' teasing. He aspired to be a writer. But growing up in a poor family in Harlem, his hope for a successful future diminished as he came to realize fully the class and racial struggles that surrounded him. He began to doubt himself and the values that he had always relied on, attending high school less and less, turning to the streets and his books for comfort.
Sha'Bre Johnson
2/10/2014 12:00:19 am
I think his mother shouldn't of died at a young age.
Zandria Jones
2/10/2014 03:22:35 am
She couldn't help if she died. It's a nature thing.
Aaliyah Thomas
2/10/2014 01:32:23 am
A boy past can affect their future. Also they life can change by who they live with. This boy developed all kinds of things. Many things were not expected. Your life can also be unexpected. So expect the unexpected in life.
Brianna Higgins
2/10/2014 01:33:38 am
He had seven brothers and sisters. An they are not all from the same mom but the same dad. Florence's deans mother emigrated from Germany in the late 18
Brianna
2/10/2014 01:35:29 am
1800's.
Shanelle
2/10/2014 01:37:32 am
I think it was kinda sad that his mother died and it was very wierd that he went to go stay with his dad's first wife which was crazy but I guess everybody have there differences but I didn't understand the first part of the book when it was telling us about the ancestry and about his great great father it was a bit confusing.
Kendraya jones
2/10/2014 01:38:52 am
Well,Walter dean lives with this woman.She's not his "real" mother just a person who took him to Sunday school. He's the youngest of the people who lives there,he's used to attention. When his "sister" got a new expensive watch he was jealous so he broke it. The was jealous .
William Addison
2/10/2014 01:42:56 am
💯 ✔✔💯{~_he stayed with his step mama.also he grew up with a poor family.also he stuck library books in the house.he relied on the strees and his books to keep him comfort. Also he was inspired to be a writer.💯💩💗😐😶👱☑👸✅💤❗2⃣📮🔺📶🏢💘🔱😄😃😍😝😜😗😘😌😞😝☺😚😫😰😠😭😩😷😴😡😫😩😕😶😟😬😏👳👷👧👴👵😻👸👱👶💩🙉💢🌟🌟✌👐👐👍💇🙅💇👪👪👙👞👗🎀💌💕🐮🐨🐶🐶🐌🐝🐲🐕🐎🐉🐕🍄🍂🍄🍂🍄🌛🌖🌛🌝❄☔⚡🍭🍑🍭🃏🎯🏉🎧📖📭⛪⛵🔰💈🚐〽🔙〰〰🕕🕓🕓🕠🕖♠💮♥
Robert Bell
2/10/2014 01:44:09 am
Reading that his mother was very sad he threw me off track when he was talking about his stepmothers life
Mariana Murillo !!!!!!!
2/10/2014 01:45:07 am
Walter Dean Myers went to Public School 125 on LaSalle Street .He was so smart that he read second grade level but he still needed to be in the first grade because he didn't speak so well , but he said he wasn't in a hurry to leave his first grade class -Ms.Dworkin but he was a fighter well he would defend himself from others !!!!!! Ms.Dworkin would put him in the corner or send him to the principal's office .Even though he said that he liked going there because he would hear and see teachers come and go. But that's basic info 2/10/2014 02:27:48 am
A boy who couldn't speak well could read at a high level. That's the part of the story i didnt understand. Also why he had to move with his dad first wife. At of anyone else why her and plus he didnt know her. Well he had a hard life,but he got past the challenges.
Tyrese Small
2/10/2014 02:32:53 am
Walter Dean Myers went to Public School 125 on LaSalle Street .He was so smart that he read second grade level. He still needed to be in the first grade because he didn't speak so well , but he said he wasn't in a hurry to leave his first grade class.His father should have stayed with his former wife because Walter was sent to learn with his father former wife. He was inspired to be a writer.
Zandria Jones <3!!!!!!!!!!
2/10/2014 03:19:50 am
Walter Dean Myers had an adventurous life. When his mother died I was confused about why he had to go back with his father's ex-wife. He didn't know anything about her, and she didn't either.Younger Walter needed supervision considering he got really sick to the point he had to go to the hospital. He even believed in Christianity. Walter and his sister had many years to go.
Rizshelle
2/10/2014 03:19:52 am
Walter dean Myers, was a young boy at the time in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s, I didn't understand the beginning when they were talking about ancestry and all of that extra, but he had to move with his Step mom that he did not know. He was talking about his family in chapter one. In chapter to he talked about his school and the boys and girls that were there. Comments are closed.
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