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=Chapter 2=

In chapter 2 " Harlem " I read about Walter being a child and he used to follow his mom as she cleans the house. On the Sunday morning a lady would ring the bell to take him to the Sunday school. Walter and some other children would hold their hands and sing a song " Jesus loves me ".Once when he thought that his sister was getting more attention then he tried to break the watch that his sister has been given. Sometimes Walter danced on the streets when no girls danced with him and people loved watching him so the people would throw some pennies. Once he had gotten sick because of those icy pops, so he had to go to the Knickerbocker Hospital.Later on Walter had to live with his Aunt Nancy until Friday's. His mom read to him, the magazine " True Romance ". Finally some day he started reading those on his own. He read to his mother while she worked in the kitchen.

=Chapter 3= Walter had just started first grade and he could read on a second grade level. His first grade teacher Mrs.Dworkin was Walter's favorite teacher even though he got in trouble. Someone suggested that he be put in second grade even if he could read but had a speech problem. When Walter was in second grade he realized that he had a speech problem.Once someone was taunting him about his speech then Walter just slapped him in his face. Then he was sent to the principal's office for slapping the kid. For a consequence Walter had to write " I Will never, never hit any student in Public School 125." Later on he moved from 126th street to Morningside Avenue. His apartment was between 121st and 122st Streets. When Walter was older he had his own key because his father was in the army and his mother, his both sisters had a job in a garmen

=Chapter 4=

In Chapter 4 Walter's older sister Viola got married to a soldier Frank Law, in 1994 and her had a baby. Frank volunteered to help Walter in Arithmetic, Walter had received his lowest mark. At first he was not allowed to go to Bible School but later on it worked out. Walter spent two hours working on the math problems with Frank. Everyday Walter was given on hundred oral problems to solve If he got one wrong he had to do another one hundred. Walter's school started in September. Walter met Eric Leonhadrt in fourt grade. The first week thier teacher made the Walter and Eric the cookie moniters. Thier job was to take the cookie orders and then go down to the first floor to get cookies and milk from the teacher who had charge of them for the day. On Walter's first report card he got a c+ in overall conduct. One day Walter and Bunny got into an argument, Walter pushed him into the closet and then he began to cry. Bunny punched Walter and he fell on the floor. Then Mrs. Parker came in and asked what had happened. She blamed Walter and told him to bring his mother to school the next morning. When he went home his mother felt that he had to br taken to the hospital. So Walter had to stay in bed. Later on he was riding hs bike and saw his dad so he had to go upstairs to put the bike away and get into bed. Walter's dad realized that Walter got hurt so they had to go to the hospital. Then later on in June his sister Gerry took him to school. Walter was then promoted to fifth grade and moved to a new school.

=Chapter 5= That summer Walter met a lot of new people like George Myers his biological father.Walter's name in school was Walter Milton Myers but the parents that he lives with the last name should be Walter Dean.George was Walter's full brother, he was called Mickey.Walter was two and half years younger than Mickey. Horace, Harriet and Gloria were his full sisters.The other person that he met this summer was his uncle Lee, who had been in jail and finally got out. The building next to Walter's had a boy name Richard who hurt his eyes by staring at the sun. Then once Walter read in the Amsterdam News about a black man who had been lynched by hanging. So they he decided to hang Richard in the church basement. When Walter and Johnny were hanging him a person named Reverend Abbott came along and saw what they were doing.That person told thier moms. In september the school started and Walter started to go to the new school on 128th street and Amsterdam Avenue. Mrs. Conway was his fifth grade teacher. One day Walter's teacher told him to read and Johnny Brown started laughing. So he threw his book on the floor, therefore this is how he got in trouble the first time in fifth grade. He got in trouble a couple more times. Then when his techer go really mad Walter had to sit at the end of the room. Walter read the comics because nobody could see him but Mrs. Conawy saw them snd tore them up put them on the desk. Then Mrs. Conway gave him a book to read and he read it. He liked it so he Mrs. Conway that he likeed it. At the end of the year Walter got the best grades he had ever gotten in the entire school years.

=Chapter 6=

The Black people are getting good jobs. In Harlem movies became popular in Harlem.Walter wanted to be an athlete. He played basketball in the morning with the teenagers.He stated to go to the library. He went to the library on the rainy days and read there for hours.He realized that he liked reading when Mrs. Conway gave him a book to read and he told her that he realy liked it He also asked if he could give him another book to read. Once they were at the church basement and they ran into a group of girls. The boys were told to do all the exercise in order for them to leave. So the boys as they were told but they failed. Therefore they had to dance to the whole routine with the girls.Walter's dad wasn't doing good in the army so this caused hi to deliver packages for three dollars. When Walter went to school he had the teacher named " Mr Irwin Lasher ". He was in his class because he had a lot of fights in his previous years.Mr. Lasher thought Walter was doing good so he was put into the advanced group.Once Walter got caught on the back of the taxi cab and was dragged down the block. He got really bad hurt. When his father asked him what's wrong with him he blamed his mother about it.

=Chapter 7=

Walter' s sisters had moved out of the apartment to live on their own. So Walter had his own room and he had his own responsibilities. As Walter was 12 years old he was nearly six feet tall. He was interested in sports. He loved to run, jump etc. Walter was also a reader, he loved to read. He would comfotalbly read in his room so no one could bother him. One time Walter' s mother asked him what he would want on his birthday. Walter got graduated in sixth grade so his mother could afford Walter having a party. His birthday was in August. When mama woke Walter up she told him that his uncle had been killed. Since that event Walter' s dad had been realy depresed. he had been sitting alone in the kitchen sometimes while Walter and mama ere in the living room. In about a year the depresion kind of faded away from Walter' s dad. Walter went into seventh and eight'th grade learning about slavery. Walter read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin. He also read Little Men. Walter said that " Little Women " was the worst book written.At the end of the year his grades were good. He was still taking speech therepy classes.

=Chapter 8=

Walter is interested in writing. Walter began to write about Harlem but there was nothing to write about so he decided to write about the people that just walked by.. In school they started a club. In the club they dedided to make a kid drive the bus and the rest ride it. Walter did not ride the bus so he put his legs over the front seat. A little while later the police came and they got in trouble.The police told the kids that whoever stole the bus, he had inform them in school. The police said that they would comr the next day. On that day the kids got scared. But the police didn't come. Eric was invited to a birthday party for Eddie. So Eric invited Walter. Bu on that day Eddie told Eric that he can't allow Walter to come to the party because his skin color was black.

=5 Facts from Chapter 10= 1. They were poor and didn't have enough money to buy food to eat. 2. Walter graduated ninth grade 3. Walter's grandfather moved in 4. Walter went to Stuyvesant High school for 10th grade. 5. The Dodgers lost the game

=Observation=

I could hear some birds chirping that's if you listen very quitely. Some people were walking around with dogs. Rarely one or two cars went by. I saw some kids running around the street. They were our neighbors. I saw some kids riding their bikes with their mom.Mostly it was pretty quite. Also some cars went by.

=Chapter 11=

Walter turned fifteen. He was at his junior year of Stuyvesant High School. Some of the kids in school had started talking about what kind of jobs they are going to plan for. Walter was thinking about having a part- time job. He got a job at the garment center. He was told that he was going to have an indoor job at the garment store. He was also told that he will be able to put the sizes and prices on garments. Walter was dreaming about being a lawer and someone said that he couldn't be a lawyer because he had speech problems. But, Walter could communicate by writing. Mama was always purchasing lottery tickets from the money Walter's dad gave her. Mama was trying to win the lottery so they could get money. Dad only gave five dollars to mama because the rest he had to keep. Walter wanted a typewriter. Then, dad buyed for him. He didn't really like it a all. He used it for writing notes for the school because he stoped going to school. That wes because he wasn't doing good in school. Mama started drinking a lot because she didn't have any money left for the family.

=Chapter 12=

When Walter stoped going to school he wrote notes. Finally when he went to school one day he was called down to the guidence counceler. The guidence counselor asked him why he wasn't coming to school. The counceler told him that lots was expected from him so that he would be able to go to colledge and be able to succeed too.When he got his report card at the end of the year he was surprised that he passed in some classes that he barely attended. Walter played basketball that summer and he saw weakness in his game. One time he saw three guys circling one. It looked like all the three guys were fighting the one only guy.Walter gave the guy with the chain a punch and the guy in the middle gave a punch to one too. They all ran away. The guy was going to get robbed by the other people. He told them that he didn't have any money.Every boy was almost intersting in girls and sex.When summer was over he went to school for three weeks and he started staying out of school again.

=Chapter 13= Walter noticed that school was getting harder. He had problems with math.When he took the quizes he almost failed on all of them.Again he had to go to the counceler. The counceler said that his attendance is poor. Their English teacher interviewed all of the students and gave them a reading list. Walter has to read Penguin Island, Buddenbrooks, Pere Goriot and The stranger. After Walter finishing the Penguin Island he repoted the writing about it. She siad that he dosn't have to apreciate it if he doesn't like it. He almost read all of the books.Walter was taking French class in school to undrestand the dialogs in french. Walter was amost out for days until one day Mama found out what is going on. Once Walter's mom knowed on the door and said that they both are going to school tomorrow morning Walter's mom coudn't believe the notes that Walter wrote.

=Chapter 14=

Walter had to report to someone at the city bureau for an inteview. The man interviewed him asking questions like if Walter thought that he was better than everybody else. Walter often meets Frank. Frank has been telling stories about his family and life. Frank was also beaten up by neighborhood kids who taunted him because he was black. Frank once told Walter when he and his mother were on a bus going from New York to Lonf Island. His mother has been drinking because of that she was loud. Therefore the bus driver put them off the bus. Once when Frank and Walter were in the park Mr. and Mrs. Dodson were walking along. Mrs. Dodson asked him if he was all right. Walter thought that was the first time he actually like the witch.Walter reads a book called the Stranger. Then Later on Walter had to go to the hospital for testing. After when the results were shown he had to come and see Dr. Holiday.

=Chapter 15=

Walter was spending more time in the Central Park instead of going to school. Most of the he spent it reading. For a little while Walter went to school bu the teachers barely called on him. Walter felt very bad that his mother didn't know what was going on with Walter. When Walter had to get to Dr. Holiday's office he had to go back to the hospital. Dr. Holiday asked questions to Walter. Walter was really glad to hear that he was bright. Dr. Holiday was confused about his name. She kept calling him Walter Dean instead of Walter Myers. Walter had to go back there next week. Walter kept reading and writing. Once when Walter was in the central park he ran into the attackers that had attacked Frank. Then he had to go back to Dr.Holiday for a session. She asked him if he ever had sex with a girl. He answered that he had but he actualy didn't. Also at he end she asked him " Do you like being black ? ''

=Chapter 16=

Walter was in Dr. Holiday's office. She had just asked him if he liked being black. Walter has answered yes, of course I do. She excepted the answer that Walter had just said. When he was a liitle boy people always asked him what he wants to do when he grows up. He had said that he wanted to be a lawyer. He liked his science teacher so he said he wnted to be a scientist. Once he had said that he wanted to be a philosopher. He had been thinking about what that actually means. He has been trying to do good in school so that he can go to colledge and get a good job in the future. Walter,s dad says that having a " good " job veses " bull " work. That means a job that takes your strength and power. Walter hasnever seen anyon e in Stuyvesant who either wanted to be a poet or a writer. Walter has been thinking all this in his head not to Dr. Holoday. Dr. Holiday again asked if he liked being black.

=Chapter 17=

College applications had been sent in from students. Walter was hoping a miracle. Walter has been looking in the newspaper about the Dodgers. He read about the Dodgers' chances, and that they looked strong. Also, the radical newspapers were full of stories about Vietnam and France. Once Frank came to Walter's apartment, mama was afraid. Walter showed Frank his room and how many books he had. After he was gone mama had said " he looks so strange ". On Walter's rare visits to school a teacher asked him what he was reading and was he writing. One day the gang that attacked Frank werre just walking yards away from him. One person recognized him and started chasing Walter. He beat them up in his apartment's hallway.There were more letters from school. Walter didn't wanted to see eric and the others from juinor high. Walter once decided to go to school. He was fifteen minutes late but the doors were lockd. The school year had ended. everything was over for Walter.

=Chapter 18=

Walter had not mentioned to his parents about what had happened and that the school year was over. He used to get up early in the morning and left as if he were going to school. Walter didn't read and had stopped writing. Once Eric had left a message with mama probably because he hadn't seen hm since Junior High, also at the graduation for Stuyvesant High.Walter's father is far away from Walter. All Walter used to do was get up early in the morning and go into the Central Park and when at home he locks himself in his room.He knew why his father was so apart from him because he couldn't read. Frank usually ran into people that are always fighting him. Walter thought that Frank might get killed or kill himself. Once Frank was deciding to leave New York City and go to Philadelphia where he thought a friend of his father's might live. walter was depressed of Frank leaving. On his way, he stopped at the army recruiting stand. he was suposed to be eighteen to get into the army. He was told that he gan go at the age of seventeen with the permission of his parents. But Walter told the person that he didn't have any parents. So, he filled out a form and was told to call them after three days. he got into the army. Mama was crying because of what Walter had done all this stuff. She didn't talk to Walter when he was leaving to go to the army. Walter was leaving his home and going to a place where he had never imagined to be in.

=Chapter 19- Discussion Questions=

1. Was this chapter interesting. Why or why not?

2. Why was Walter glad to be released out of the army?

3. What types of jobs did Walter do after he got out of the army?

4. What types of things did Walter write?

5. How did Walter's parents feel when Walter told them that he has been writing stories?

6. Do you think it was a good way for Walter to end the book?