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Review Of Walter Dean Myers 'Bad Boy: A Memoir'

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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. Value of edcations is how he loved reading and hated it also. Walter’s mother love reading to him when was little. Walter’s mom read magazines, and other kind of books. Walter’s mom help walter with big words and help his value of education. Walter never fixed his problem in school. Walter didn’t fix speech problem keeps him from speaking right. Walter’s other problem is that he missed a year of school. Isolation tears walter’s family a part. Walter’s momma isolation for walter. Walter’s momma sent
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In Chapter Five, Bad Boy, Walter Myers explained that he became fascinated with baseball and baseball players. Walter had said that many street games were played outside on 122nd Street. He also said that his biological father, George Myers, had entered his life. Back in Chapter One, Roots, it said that his biological father had been divorced by his biological mother, Florence Dean. According to Walter, there had never been official paperwork to make his adoption legal.

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In chapter 5 of Bad Boy, Walter talks about baseball, meeting his dad and his brothers. In the summer of 1947 Walter was excited that they let Jackie Robinson and Larry Dobby into Major League Baseball. Walter would gather all of his neighborhood friends to watch baseball with him. Soon Walter’s biological father moved to Harlem, because his wife had family there. Walter never considered his biological father his dad because he never acted like it.

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Books express who the author is or who they want to be. They show the imagination and, sometimes, the difficulties of the author’s life. In Bad Boy, by Walter Dean Myers, the author shows the difficulties in his life and how he overcame those obstacles in the shape of a memoire. While I appreciate the truths about the world told in Bad Boy, and the uncensored quality while addressing racial issues, I am not too fond of this book. I definitely do not hate Bad

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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

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In the memoir’’ How to write a memoir’’, written by William Zinsser, Zinsser goes into specific detail for beginner memoir writers on how do you write a memoir. He encourages each of them to ‘’ Be themselves’’,’’ Tell their own story and they should write about what they want’’, and ‘’ Think small, don’t over think what you are writing about. ’’(Zinsser’s memoir pages 2,4,6) This advice tells beginner memoir writer to express who you are and say as much as you would like to say. In the memoir ‘’ Bad Boy’’, Walter Dean Myers gives a lot of insight on what his childhood was like.

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In the book of Bad Boy chapter five is title bad boy. In this chapter Walter is talking about what his life is all about it includes school, church, and activities. Walter had got in a fight in chapter four. Walter got injured he had to get his appendix token out.

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Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers is about Racism, Family, and Value of education. There are many ways Walter’s life was full with racism. Walter family wasn’t perfect, they always have problems. Walter’s value of education has changed throughout the the book.

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Society tries to create a “perfect” image on people; leading us to believe that if we are not the specific way that we created, we do not fit in. In reality everybody is supposed to create themself, regardless of what society believes. Does what we label others matter? Who are we to judge how others chose to create themselves? In David Crabb’s memoir Bad Kid, Crabb takes the readers through what it was like discovering that he is gay, and how that changed how kids treated him during school.

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Walter becomes isolationed when he gets left alone a lot, in second grade. In second grade Walter gets his own house

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Isolation is an important part in walters life. In the book he lied to mamma for beating him with a stick. Now mamma doesn’t want to trust him. When Walter was older he wasn’t talking to his family. He goes out of the house and goes to central park.

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Bad Boy A Memoir by Walter Dean Myer is about isolation,value of education, and racism. Racism is a big part of walters life because when he was little he thought it was okay to beat up jewish kids. But when walter got older he started to be treated badly but when walter was little he thought it was okay to lynch people people. Then one day he tried to get a cab but he couldn’t because he was black. Isolation is a huge part of Walters life because when he was little he tried to ride the back of a cab and he fell off the back and got dragged but he tried to hide it but his dad found out and Walter blamed on his mom saying that she beat him with a stick and then him and his mom barely talked to each other then a few day later his uncle Lee

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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.

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The ethical dilemma posed by stem cell research Some cells are capable of dividing virtually without limits to replenish other cells, however the are types of cells named Stem cells. These cells has the potential to either remain as a stem cell or become another type of cell with specialized functions, such as a muscle cell, a red blood cell or a brain cell. Stem cell research posed a moral problems since it bring to our attention two fundamental moral principles that we value. The first principle is the duty to alleviate sickness and sufferings and the second is to respect the value of human life. The destruction of embryonic stem cells should be permitted because of it's potential benefits since it is used to make medicines or vaccinations

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The conflict in “Bad Boy” is that Walter basically forces himself to hide his identity and what he likes. The conflict in "I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid" is that she walks around clenching her fist because she is really tense. She walks around on the street. Something that is Different about them is that their challenges are different. In “Bad Boy” Walter struggles with showing his true self.

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