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Monkeyman Walter Dean Myers Summary

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In the story Monkeyman, Walter Dean Myers tells a story about someone named Monkeyman living in Harlem when he angered a posse of which called themselves the Tigros. The Tigros went on to hunt monkeys, even waiting outside his school until they met at a park that night, where the conflict was peacefully resolved. Myers demonstrates that having the courage to take risks will be very beneficial for the people able to suppress their fear. One way that monkeyman illustrates this is when after going to buy a soda found people trying to hurt his friend as shown when the narrator states he saw the girl trying to cut Peaches and he ran out and knocked the blade from the girls hand. (13) Representing that monkeyman having the courage to stand infront
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