Roots Walter Chapter Summaries

Walter Lee is stubborn, very ambitious, and filled with pride at the beginning of the story. He strives for success with the money “Mama,” also known as Lena got from the life insurance from her husband who recently passed away. Walter was so selfish all he wanted was to provide a better life for he and his family because he was not satisfied with their current standards of living. He wants more and wishes to become rich because he believes he never had enough growing up, but at the same time he wants to provide money and societal respect for his family. He put his trust with the money into a person who betrayed him and he ended up losing it all including his sisters schooling money. After this scene in the play Walter was at his lowest point,

3. a- The letters from Walters mother is where she told Walter the truth. When she dropped him off she lied and said she was going court reporting school. Days latter Mae send Walter a letter telling him where she really is and what is going on.

* Sense of the tragic nature of the life of African Americans in poor areas (para 5): “the pimps, the whores, the junkies”

A few little known facts about Walter Dean Myers is explained and illustrated with examples. “I wish I could have known her. However, today when I think of ‘mother’, I think of another woman, my father’s first wife, Florence Dean.”(pg. 3)(her refers to his birth mother), Walter Dean Myers never knew much about his birth mother, but when he refers to his “mother” he considers his adopted mother as said in Bad Boy: A Memoir. A few interesting experiences from Bad Boy: A Memoir about Walter, was that he once tried to

This only further infuriates Walter. Not only does his mother make a complete power-grab by buying the house; she bought it in a cracker neighborhood! Walter storms out and is almost ready to kill someone over it. He feels he has lost his only shot at power. Walter comes back home screaming at his whole family, they don’t support him, especially his mother. He accuses her of not supporting his dream.

Walter instead of begging at the feet of Mr. Linder accepting the money too not move in the white neighborhood he, stands his ground on behalf of the family and states that they’ve worked hard their whole lives and are deserving of a spot in the white neighborhood, and despite discrimination are ready to live their lives in that neighborhood. At that point Walter got the respect from his sister who rarely admits her love towards him but, also the infatuation and justification from his wife, Ruth, who was very proud. When Mr. Linder tried to move onto Mrs. Younger (Mama-Lena) she state’s “I am afraid you don’t understand. My son said we was going to move and there ain’t nothing left for me to say.” (3.1.137) standing by her son and completely supporting him and his decision as the head of the household. Walter finally felt his manhood coming back, as Mr. Linder shut his briefcase and welcomed them too the neighborhood despite the problems they will face later on. The family celebrated and packed their stuff into the moving trucks immediately, and headed for the start of their new lives!

In the book, bad boy Walter dean talks about his family back ground in chapter one. Walter discussed his feeling about his mother. On page 3 Walter talks about having no feeling for May Daley Green, because she died during the birth of my younger sister. The root of chapter one, helps us to understand Walters background though Mary Dolly Green was not there for his life. That does not mean that does not mean that she do not love him. You know what I bet she still do love him, and always will. Last of all Walter did also have a brother, his name was George.

Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia on a Thursday. At a very young age, of 2, his mom passed away and he was sent to live with his new family Florence and Herbert Dean. Florence was African- American and Herbert was German. They love Walter unconditionally hence he was influence by their love to change his name. Growing up Walter life centered on his community and church. Despite being involved in church Walter faced challenges such as not doing well in school and was quick to react whenever teased by his peers or others. Due to these issues Walter found serenity in books. Before his mom passed away she use to read books very often to him, while she read Walter would imagine the characters. At a very tender age Walter found out that through reading and writing he can be in different places during dark times, such as when his uncle was murdered and his family became dysfunctional.

Walter Dean Myers creates the story of sixteen year old Steve Harmon, from Steve’s point of view, as he struggles with the fact that he is being tried for felony murder. If he loses the case, the result could be the death penalty at worst, and at best, over twenty years in prison. Steve battles to prove his innocence and battle the prosecution with sheer determination. Day to day, Steve’s case seems to be going downhill. He only sees his family for short periods of time, and when he does see them they are faking their emotions to seem happy. While Steve is being held in Manhattan Detention Center, he finds himself living in fear. He describes how his look has changed, the terrible violence in prison, and the only time he can cry is when other

Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers is based on him growing up and his family. In chapter 1, Roots, Walter talks about his rots. On page 1 he says, “I learned about most of the people who had some effect on my life through family, stories, census records, old photographs, and in case of Lucas D. Dennis……” Walter talked about his birth mother she had five children, Gertrude, Ethel, George, Walter, and Imogene. Walter`s birth mother, Mary, died shortly after the birth of Imogene, you can find this on page 3. The woman, that he thought of as his mother was Florence Dean, his father`s first wife. In this marriage Walter had two more sisters, Geralding and Viola. The marriage ended in divorce, and Florence moved back to Pennsylvania.

At the end of the scene Mama tries to influence Walter by bringing up how hard she and her husband had to work to keep their family from being homeless. Finally, Mama had gave up and let Walter know that Ruth is pregnant as a last effort to stop from leaving, yet he remained

Day of Infamy by Walter Lord describes the day, beginning to end, in which legends were born and thousands were killed, known as Pearl Harbor. The Japanese knew it was impossible for their empire to take control of the Pacific if the U.S Pacific Fleet was strong, so they decided to attack and attempt to destroy most of the fleet. The attack went not as planned because one plane was supposed to shoot once if they had the element of surprise, which was one plan, and shoot twice if they had been detected. The pilot shot once, but because he thought some planes didn’t hear, he shot his signaling pistol again. Some pilots thought it was the plan for surprise, others thought they had lost the precious element of surprise. Then they all began attacking,

Walter begins to drink, stay away from home, and to constantly argue with his wife, Ruth. Walter's life is contrasted by the role of his recently widowed mother, who holds to more traditional values of acceptance of life's lot and of making the best of any situation. Walter Lee's "Mama" holds Walter's father up as an example of a man with pride and a man that, despite racial injustice in a dualistic society, worked hard to provide for his family. This adds to Walter's frustration. Walter now feels incapable and small in his mama's eyes.

Walter had finally met his real father. On page 37, the author said he didn’t remember having a feeling that the man was his father. Walter Dean’s father’s name was George Myers. He was curious about seeing his father, even though he hadn’t seen him in a long time. Walter had found out that he had a brother named George and he was the same skin tone as him. He also found out that they didn’t call his brother by his real name, they called him Mickey.

Sixteen year-old Magnus Chase was homeless after losing his mother. All he had were his two homeless friends Hearth and Blitz, at least that’s what he though. When his uncle Randolph is in search of him Magnus tries to find out why and ends up on the Longfellow Bridge. There he fights Surt and retrieved the Sword. That day Magnus died and went to Hotel Valhalla where he met his Valkyrie Sam who was banish after he was pronounced son of Frey and wrongly chosen. He also met T.J., Mallory, Halfborn Gunderson, and X. That night his old friends Hearth and Blitz revealed themselves to be Hearthstone and Blitzen the dwarf and elf. When Magnus turned sixteen he never though he would go to Midgard to find the sword and bring it to Fernis