In the story, there was a man that is named Walter dean Myers and in the story he tells us about his life and what he does. Walter Dean Myers was the child to Mary Dolly Green and she had five children. The name of her children is Gertrude, Ethel, George, Walter, and Imogene. After his mother Imogene his mother died and the only one he had left was his dad and his siblings. Mary Dolly Green isn’t his farther first wife, his first wife was Florence Dean. He couldn’t marry her because she found a man that goes by Brown. This paragraph of the story is called roots. The name for this paragraph is called Harlem. Walter had to move to Harlem because his sister met this man named George Myers and he had children by Mary Myers which was two