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**This chapter was about Walter when he moved to Harlem. He lived in Harlem with his dad (Herbert), his mom (Flourence) and his two sisters. The thing he liked the most about Harlem was the music. During the day everybody would dance and play outside. Walter taught himself how to dance, and people would throw him penny's. After he got penny's he would run to the grocer and buy an icy pop. Walter had so many icy pops the food coloring would go right through him, and he got a very bad stomach ace. His mom took him to the hospital and they fixed it.**
 * Chapter 2 **


 * Chapter 3 **

**In this chapter Walter goes into 1st grade. He really likes school and does very good. The one thing Walter is really good at is reading. Walter does the best in reading. The thing that he isn't so good at is his speech. Sometimes the teacher is not able to understand him and he would have to repeat himself. One day a kid in his class was making fun of Walter for not being able to talk well. Walter got very mad and punched the kid, he was sent to the office. At the end of 3rd grade Walter slapped someone, and after that the teacher had slapped him every day.Finally someone had told there mother and, that mom told Walter's mother, and the teacher stopped hitting him. The teacher didn't like him after that, and gave him bad marks on his report card. When his mom saw the report card she got very mad, and he got hit by his mom instead.** 1. Why did Walter get in a fight with another kid? If that was you what would you do?
 * Chapter 4 **

2. Do you think this chapter was more confusing than chapter 3? If so, why?

3. When Walter went home one afternoon what caused him to go to the hospital? What did the doctors do to Walter at the hospital for eating so much candy?

4. do you think it wa smart of Walter to go and ride his bike when he wasn't supposed to?

5. Why do you think the principal and Mrs. Parker promoted him to the fifth grade, even though he missed about half of the school year?

6. Why did the teacher yell at Walter during class?

7. Why do you think Walter fought "Bunny"? Why did he get in trouble but Bunny didn't?


 * Chapter 5 **


 * In this chapter Walter tells about one of his summers. over the summer he is not allowed to do a lot of activities, because of his appendix. Also his mother was not allowed to beat Walter. Walter says that there was nothing for her to beat him for any way, except for one thing that he says wasn't so bad. Over the summer there was a black boy with very light skin and nobody really liked him. They were gonna beat him up but decided to try and hang him. An adult caught them and told all of there moms and got in trouble. Walter was excited when school started. The teacher would call on students to read parts of a story and when she picked Walter everybody would laugh at him for his speech. He through the book across the room and the teacher yelled at him to go in the closet. **


 * Chapter 6 **
 * In this chapter Walter gets a boy teacher for 5th grade. The reason he got a boy teacher was because he has a reputation of fights. The teacher said there will be no fights in his classroom. There was only one time Walter got in trouble, and it was on the 3rd day. He was pretending to kick the teacher when he was turned around and actually kicked him. Instead of having a note go home, or his mom going to school Walters teacher went home with Walter. In Harlem there had not been a lot of taxis. So one day Walter saw a taxi so he wanted to hitch a ride on the back bumper. The taxi had jerked as it started and Walter fell of and hurt his legs. That night at dinner when his dad asked what happened he said "mama beat me with a stick". His dad got mad and started yelling at mama. **

**Walter is turning 12 and is nearly 6ft tall. He has became a better kid and doesn't fight anymore. He was moved to a different school for smarter kids and every one there was smart, like him. Walter has got even better at reading than before. The school that Walter goes to is very different because everybody is calm and there all kind of the same. Walters mom saves up enough money for Walter to have his first birthday party. Walter gets really excited and cannot wait for it. On the day of Walters birthday his mom comes in his room really early and tells him that his uncle died and they have to go to the Bronx. He was not very close to his uncle but his dad was very depressed about it. He had been depressed for a whole year, and it affected the family very much it was like he was a stranger.** **When I look around outside my house i don't see a lot. I live on a dead end so there isn't much. When I look out my window I see cars either parked in the driveway or in front of there houses. There are a lot of trees on my street. There is only one pine tree on my street. One of the houses on my street is really messy. The grass is really tall and no one takes care of the house. Me my brother and my next door neighbors are the only kids on the street. Were my house is the front yard is flat and the backyard is down hill. On the other side of the street it is the opposite. This is pretty much all i see in my neighborhood.**
 * Chapter 7 **
 * Chapter 8 **
 * Walter is growing up in this chapter. He wants to become a writer. Every day he would try to write but he is not able to. As Walter grows up he notices and learns a lot more stuff. For example he notices that blacks are not as respected as whites are. He sees in papers that paragraphs on whites are sometimes on senators making speeches or other important things. Also if a white goes to perform an opera it will be popular, as for a black it will be more like a recitle. He does not have a type ** **writer so he writes in composition books. After living in Harlem for so long its just home to him now and he doesn't have anymore to write about. Walter would go on the roof of his apartment and write up there. He would always think of stuff to write and would always just write about what he sees.**
 * Neighborhood **


 * Chapter 10 **
 * In this chapter Walter goes in to a new high school. He is in a all boys school and didn't even know until the first day. So far Walter does not like the school. The school day is from noon to five thirty, this take up a lot of his free time. Herbert's dad is poor and has to live with Walter and there family now. Everybody gets disappointed about this even Herbert's dad. Walter has to sleep in a small room because Pap (Herbert's dad) sleeps in Walters room. Walter says that he wants to meet a girl just like him that likes poetry and keeps it a secret so they could be friends. His favorite baseball team is the Brooklyn Dodgers. They play a game to get into the finals and everybody in Walters class is excited about it and the Brooklyn Dodgers end up loosing. Walter is sad about this and when he gets home his mom conforts him. **

**In chapter 11 Walter is 15 and is going into Stuyvesant High school. A lot of people in school were talking about getting jobs and going to college. Walters cousin Joseph said that he could get Walter a job, he worked at a garment center. He wrote down the address and gave it to Walter, he wasn't interested he said he was getting a job through school but he lied. At Stuyvesant the Junior and Senior day sessions ran from 8:00am to 1:00pm without a lunch brake. Some of the needier kids worked after school and it was possible for Walter. One time when he was little he said he wanted to be a lawyer. He had told it to a man and the man said he couldn't because he couldn't speak well.**
 * Chapter 11 **


 * Chapter 12 **
 * IN the beginning of this chapter Walter is talking to the guidance counselor and she is yelling at him for not going to school. The guidance counselor makes him go to school. She asks her "What do you do all day?" he does not answer but he thinks it in his head. When the school sent out the end of the year report cards Walter actually passes some classes and was very surprised. One day when Walter was walking to the field he saw a kid getting beat up by three people. One of them had a chain. Walter walked over and punched the kid with the chain, he fell to the ground. When he got up they all ran away. The boy that was getting beat up was about Walters age. He had a streak of gray hair on his head which means he was stresses out a lot. **

** ﻿When Walter goes back to school, after a while it becomes a disaster. He was not doing good science and math. In science the easiest formulas would elude him. In math he was not able to do the problems he should have been able to do. The only subject that he would do good in was reading and writing. The teacher had read some of his writing and liked it. She told him to keep writing. His teacher gave him some books to read so he could examine how the author wrote. He read all of them but did not really like them. When he would get a book him self he would never read the whole thing he'd just read the parts he liked. Walter ended up dropping out of school again. He would hang out with someone named Frank Hall but mama didn't like Walter hanging out with him. One day his mama decided to go to school with Walter, and Walter hadn't been to school for at least 2 weeks. When they got there mama went to the office and waited outside. Mama told the office about the time he had scarlet fever. The doctors suggested he get rid of his nervousness before he leaves but he didn't. **
 * Chapter 13 **


 * Chapter 14 **
 * In this chapter Walter has a meeting with someone for not going to school, and the man says if he keeps skipping school he will be eligible for a juvenile facility. Walters some what friend Frank didn't have place to live. He used to have a home because his dad was a singer dancer and he was so god that people treated him like a white with dancing and singing. Every thing was good for them until his father died. Every body who was nice to them were not nice to them anymore. Frank had gotten beat up by a lot of the neighborhood kids, because he was black and they would taunt him. One night when Walter was out at midnight sitting on the bench when Mr. and Mrs. Dodson came walking along. They asked Walter if he was okay and if he wanted to come across the street to her house. After she left he realized that the Wicked Which of the West was being nice to him. S he walked away he actually felt good for her. He had gone to a hospital and now had to see Dr.Holiday for appointments. **


 * Chapter 15 **
 * Walter is a little bit better in this chapter. He goes to see Dr.Holiday and she asks him questions and does tests on him. For one of the tests its for vision and the results come out that he has trouble seeing color. Walter starts going to school more and he says that everybody is as smart as him and if not dumber. He does not get worried about anything like the S.A.Ts or other stuff. When the rest of his class graduates and goes off in to college he is going to be in his own world. One day when he skips school he goes to the park and sees the gang that beat up Frank. They recognize him and walk over. One of the people about Walters age takes out a knife, and then Walter takes out his and they back up. They get scared so they say "Stay right here while we go get a gun". Walter doesn't believe there getting a gun so he walks away. Walter goes and sees Dr.Holiday mostly every week and he says she is a beautiful black women that has a great scent. At the end of the chapter Dr.Holiday asks him if he likes to be black? **
 * Chapter 16 discusion questions. **