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Bad Boy Book Report

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In class we have been reading the book Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers. Were midway through the book up to now, it’s a remarkable book. It’s well written and uses vivid details that shows the reader what’s proceeding in the story, it doesn’t just tell the reader what’s proceeding in the story. It takes place in the 40’s and 50’s and is about an African American boy named Walter, and his life in the city of Harlem, N.Y. The book shows his toil of being intelligent, but no kids amidst him can associate with his fondness for leaning. Walter also is a firebrand and Bad Boy shows what kind of nuisance he gets into with society amidst him. While he is tussling with all of this he is beginning to realize the racial discrimination in society amidst him, which has an immense force on Walter. In the book Bad Boy I enjoy a few ideas about the book and loathe only one trivial issue. …show more content…

I enjoy the interesting details about how life was like back then, and how there was the battle of race back then for the African Americans. I love how the author describes society back then with such vivid detail that makes you experience what it was like to live back then. Like in the book the author described all the structures on Harlem’s main street with such vivid detail and with all the people on that street, it made you feel like you were ambling right by the main character’s side. I find that really interesting and appealing about the book. I also find it really intriguing about the racial battle the African Americans had in their society back then. I enjoy learning about how the coped with it and how they discovered ways to get through the battle of that. Like in the story Walter got his occupation of packing seized from him and given to a white person instead. Those are ideas I enjoyed about the book Bad Boy up to

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