Boy, but I have read much more intriguing works of literature that raise my standards of the books I read. But, while this book may not be my favorite, there are still parts that are interesting and fun to read. Towards the beginning of Bad Boy, Walter, the main character, acts
This would be understandable if he had done this once, but it sees as if this has happened a lot in the past. Maybe the reason Walter is a “bad boy” is because the punishment isn’t good for Walter. This is because it says, “I liked to go to the principal’s office” (18) which makes it look like Walter likes going to the principal. In fact, the teachers might actually be rewarding Walter for his actions. At my school if a student did something
Walter is a young adolescent, merely fourteen years old who is left stranded at the home of his two uncles in Texas, quite literally in the middle of nowhere. Viewers' first impression of Walter is that he is actually a very timid and hesitant character unsure of the situation he has been put in. Walter has undergone hurt and hardships from his past just like his mother Mae. The difference between the two is that Walter has not allowed these moments to define and eat relentlessly away at him. He has not accepted his past to be normal, or justified things that should not be justified.
Bad Boy is a book about a boy named Walter Dean Meyers, he was quick-tempered and physically strong, always ready for a fight. Walter also had an outstanding vocabulary and loved to read he would got to the library and check out books and put them in a brown paper bag to avoid being teased by the other boys. He grew up in a poor family in Harlem, and he was affected by racism that was going on in his town. With that being said he began to doubt himself and starting skipping high school, and turned to the streets and his books for
Bad Boy : A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers is about value of education, isolation, racism. Walter’s value of education was decrease when he was older. Walter’s isolations split his family apart. Walter’s racism makes it hard on walter’s education.
Bad Boy a Memoir by Walter Dean Myers is about isolation, Racism, and Coming of age. Isolation is big part of walters life because it makes Walter depressed. Coming of age is a big part of Walters life because it makes him realize things. And Racism is a big part of Walters life because it changes his life Isolation is a big part of Walter life because it makes him depressed. A example is that When Walter lied about Mom hitting him he isolated himself from her.
But as he got older he noticed that he can't because of his skin color. As Walter got older he noticed more racism to when he was little. He did not know
In the beginning Walter is basically perceived as a jerk-he doesn’t seem to get along with anyone, not even his own family. His character likes to turn discussions into fights, make rude comments to his wife, and act all around immature. A part that accurately shows the way Walter conducts himself is when he is arguing with Ruth and says “Man say: I got to change my life , I'm choking to death, baby! And his woman say- Your eggs is getting cold!”
The settings Walter uses, especially the dirty dark city, doesn’t allow the protagonist, Ian Blackburn, to think differently and encourages Ian to judge the people based on their environment.
Family is a very important part of his life. Walter usually stayed at home with momma and helps her with chores. Walter becomes very close to momma even if he got in trouble at times. Walters babysitter was his aunt that he was okay with his aunt, but he hates that she made him take naps. Walter didn’t want to go to sleep at night so he would not want to take a nap in the middle of the day.
He is hitting the white man’s nineteen fifties social ceiling, yet wants to go past that and max out at his own status ceiling. One reason Walter acts the way he acts could possibly be because of his environment, in Act 1 Scene 1, Walter is talking to Ruth about the insurance money and how he wants to invest in a liquor store. Ruth shut him down by saying “ eat your eggs”(Hansberry 1547). Ruth is trying to tell Walter to “walk the line” and do what you have always done, don’t try new things and possibly dig the family into a deep hole, Walter does not like this response from
Throughout the plot, he struggles with acceptance of his social status and economical situations, but ends up achieving true fulfillment in simply being proud of who he and his family are as people with aspirations. Walter’s evolution
It won’t let him get a good job or house, be able to have a car, or allow him to live the way he wants to live. Because of all these stressors, it forces Walter to make a risky business decision that costs him most of his father’s life insurance money. Racism caused Walter to risk every dollar he owned and he lost it all. Later, he almost lost his own dignity by pleading with Mr. Lindner for his money back, but Mama saved him from doing it. Walter and the Youngers decided to move to Clybourne Park to live Walter’s dream of trying to live with the same privileges of white people.
He feels that if he cannot achieve greatness and get his family out of the slums of Chicago, then he has failed at everything. It not only concerns his family that he sees his human worth out of money, but it worries them because they are not able to trust him to be responsible and just when making decisions. While the Younger family wants to own a house and receive a stronger income, Walter is the only one who obsesses over it and allows it to alter the ways in which he treats important people in his life. Segregation caused dreams to become deferred, and weights were put onto the families during the 1950s. Due to segregation, they could not afford what white families could, and this was because they were paid less in the workforce.
Scout learns that the reason why Walter is skinny and always looking for food is because his family is poor. It is because of Cunningham’s low income and little education, his social status is lowered. Again innocence is destroyed because due to Walter’s low income he is unable to advance in the social status because he is forced to help his father make ends meet while not being able to further his education. It creates an endless cycle of each descendent getting stuck in the same situation as Walter not being able to rise to higher levels of statuses.
