In the book bad boy, Chapter 5 starts off with the summer of 1947 with the anticipation for blacks, because Jackie Robinson and Larry doby finally are allowed to be in the MLB. There were also these two boxers Joe Louis who was heavyweight champion and “Sugar” ray Robinson. Everything was good for everyone even the newspaper for blacks suggested that blacks are starting to be treated equal. Everyone was happy except Walter, because beatings came easy in his neighborhood And every kid would come close to hear it happen so in short it was embarrassing. During the summer Walter and his friends heard of this thing called lynching it was apparently happening a lot in the north. So they decided to do it to this kid named Richard in the middle of the lynching that took place in the basement of their church, their pastor walks in on them in the act and was completely shocked. So he made them untie him …show more content…
When the 5th grade started for Walter he finally realized he had a speech problem when he had to present an essay for class and everyone started laughing at the way he talked. Which in turn made him very angry and so he through his book at a kid named Johnny brown who seemed to be the first one laughing so his teacher Mrs. Conway sent him to the closet Walter walked right in front of roger and hit him he spent the rest of the day at the principal’s office ever since then he has had the title of bad boy by his teacher Mrs. Conway. In chapter 7 Walter has always been picked on by older kids for his love for books, but this was one of the only times roger didn’t actually want to fight and it was because he thought books were special and that he rather not fight over them. When it was summer there was one thing (other than reading) that he loved to do it was go to the movies there were 3 main cinemas near him the Apollo Alhambra and the