Analysis Of Bad Boy By Walter Dean Myers

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In the book “Bad Boy”, a memoir by Walter Dean Myers, he displays his life as an example of what a complex lifestyle an african american youth had to live through. Bad Boy is set in 1950 Harlem, New York City, NY. Walter Dean finely describes his perspective of things as a child in a world of his that revolved around reading and school as well as a zeal for poetry and writing. Suffering from a speech impediment that he was made fun of for didn’t allow him to be promoted to 2nd grade early. Later in his life, his family is near bankruptcy so Walter must work for a typewriter in order to begin his writing career. Walter is proficient at describing minor details in the setting although, he changes the subject while writing overwhelmingly in