Bad Boy Book Report

He was packed onto prison trains like cattle. From being in prison for 5 years, he was dying to know what important events have happened. He describes how differently he is from the prisoners and how they have nothing in common. He soon came to understand that underneath their violent exterior and moral code that they were men driven by fear. Father Walter would be laboring in a vineyard and actually looked forward to it because he would be able to converse with people and do something.

In chapters 5, one of the things Walter Dean Myers did in this chapter he tries to string up the kid named Richard. This was shocking to the pastor, so he stopped them. (pg.39) Walter said “The summer of 1947 was one of eager anticipation for black people across the country. Jacki Robison and Larry Doby, two black players from the all- black Negro League, had finally been accepted into major league baseball.” (pg.35) also Walter discovered that he had a speech problem, he discovered it when kids laughed at him for speaking in front of the class. These are also the chapters that Gorge Myers and Mickey moved to Harlem, and most people called Walter, Walter Dean because of his parents. Walter said “the other person who entered my life was my

Bad Boy: A memoir by Walter Dean Myers is about racism, isolation,and value of education. Racism is a big part throughout this book because of how Walter acts and thinks. Isolation is a big role in this book because it reaches many of his family members. Value of education changes dramatically throughout his life.

In a world that cares little for the wellbeing of each individual, it is impossible to survive out in the open. Wealth protect some from society’s demands while others seek refuge in family bonds. The main difference between the Author and the Other Wes Moore is the bubble that they matured in. For the Author, his mother’s love and hard work afforded him an expensive bubble of physical isolation and a regimented lifestyle. For the Other Wes, the sanctuary was of his own making; one of honor bound by ties of drug money and blood.The defining moments for each Wes Moore are when their bubbles are created and when they become a prison.

Walter Lee is what I see as a character who believes in his vision, when no one else could. He was raised by a strict, hard working Christian mother, who has a very honest outlook on life. She once said, “Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.”(Sun, 74). Walter is growing

This is how it was in the 1930s, there was a lot of racism. Darnell has to go to a specific school for african americans and they don’t have math or science. The other thing is that they don’t get any lunch at that school.the teachers were very sloppy and didn’t care about their students, the students were always hit by the teachers. Darnelle was barley learning how to talk and he was five years old. It's been almost a since his mom past away. It is now April 3, 1938, and now Darnelle is all by himself and in a foster home. The doctors found out that his had stage four lung cancer and even if they knew about it earlier that he had no chance of living. So now Darnelle was an orphan. So now he had no family to turn to he was all alone. This is probably one of the saddest stories that you’ve

In the memoir, Bad Boy, by Walter Dean Myers, the author describes his life growing up as a poor young African American. Walter comes to realize that the racial struggles that surround him will mean he will have to overcome many obstacles in his life to succeed. Walter had to go through many tragedies and hardships in his life

Walter Lee is the most troublesome person in the Young family. He harvests feelings of inadequacy as a man because he has not accomplished much with his life. Walter is the third generation born in the US. He’s 35 years old working as a chauffeur subject to only driving his white boss around town. As an African American living in the 1950’s the jobs that were available in industries or business were limited to the menial or subservient job positions. The windows of opportunities for a black African American in this country were limited to a small level of success. Walter’s dream of becoming a business man is was just that, a dream. He does not have the proper educated needed to be a successful business man. It is just an image he wants to fulfill

Coming of age is a important part of Walter’s life. When Walter turned 8, he got his own house key. This happened because Walter’s parents decided that he would get a house key once he reached age 8. As Walter gets older, he faces more problems, each one more difficult than the last. When Walter got into high school, Walter’s family became poor

In chapter 5 Walter and his friend shocked the pasture by trying to lynch Richard. It shocked the pasture because he came from a town that lynching people was serious. When Walters laughed at him when he read, Walter had realized that he had a speech problem. On page 38 Walter’s uncle came to live in Harlem with Walter. All Walter knew was that his Uncle Lee has been in jail for a very long time. On page 38 the author explains that Uncle Lee talked outside of his mouth because “so the screws can’t see you talking” in other words, so the prison guards couldn’t see you talking. Also in chapter 5 Walter got caught reading comics under his desk, so Mrs. Conway (his teacher) gave him a book called “East o’ the sun and West o’ the moon” to read.

The book ‘the lost boy’ by Dave Pelzer tells about the authors struggles though foster care in California during the 1970’s. David was taken from an abuse home at the age of twelve where he was made a ward of the state and sent into the foster care system and later the juvenal justice system. This book covers three point in David life that was important in him becoming the man he is at the point where he wrote the book. These points where his struggle with recovering from his past trauma, his struggle with being stereotyped as a foster child and his choice to move forward and prepare for the future.

He didn’t have the most normal life growing up, he didn’t do very well in school and was always getting in to trouble. He just could not find his grove and when he thinks he finally finds it something happens at home and just like that it’s gone. One disaster after another Walter is put in a tight spot. Things never go his way. Just when Walter sets his heart on being a poet and saves up enough money to by his own typewriter, he learns his mother lost all the money gambling.

For my first reading book assignment, I read My Life with the Walter Boys, by Ali Novak. My Life with the Walter Boys is about a girl named Jessie Howard who has to move from a high end New York city life to a country life in Colorado after her parents and sister die in a car crash. She moves in with the Walters who have 11 boys and one girl who is basically one of the guys. While living there, Jessie gets herself stuck in a love triangle between gorgeous two of the brothers.

He was suggested to go to second grade because of that reason as well as him being as big as most of them. His first grade teacher said that it was a bad idea, as it states on page seventeen. On page eighteen, Walter realizes his speech problem when a kid in the class starts to taunt him. Walters’s response was punching the kid, whose name is Manuel, in the face. Walter had the punishment of writing “I will never, never hit any student in Public School 125”. Walter loved to read and he loved school as it says in the

Black males have been disproportionately getting in trouble and facing ineffective punishments within the school systems. Bad Boys, based on a three-year study held by Ann Arnett Ferguson, observed daily interactions between teachers and students in order to understand the children’s self-development in relation to the school. Ann discovered that many of the issues originated from the school system, “What I observed at Rosa Parks during more than three years of fieldwork in the school, heard from the boy himself, from his teachers, from his mother, made it clear that just as children were tracked into futures as doctors, scientists, engineers, word processors, and fast-food workers, there were also tracks for some children, predominantly African American and male, that led to prison” (2). This quote represents the great influence institutions have in creating, and regulating children’s identifications. Schools, such as Rosa Parks Elementary School, are believed to be the reason these “bad boy” types of children exist.