Walter Bad Boy Analysis

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In the first chapter of “Bad Boy” the title called roots was to give background knowledge of Walter’s history. On page 1 Walter says “I learned about master the people by family stories, census records, old photographs, and the case of Lucas D. Dennis. Walter’s great-great-uncle Lucas D. Dennis was a slave in the 1800s. Walters’s birth mother is Mary Dolly Green. She was a tall and fair complexion lady. She died right after having Walter’s sister Imogene. Walter doesn’t think Mary Dolly Green is his mother because he doesn’t remember much of her. Walter thinks of Florence Dean as his mother. Florence is Walter’s father’s first wife. Florence and George Myers were married at the age of seventeen. They both got a divorce because Florence’s German relatives didn’t make her feel welcomed because of the black man.…show more content…
Walter says “Harlem is the first place he called “home” that he can remember. Walter says that the streets of Harlem were full of music. Walter says the earliest memory was that a woman who picked him up for Sunday school. He states that he lived on 126th street. On page 8 Walter says that he would follow Florence Dean room to room and talk to her because he always she would listen to him. Walters’s mother did what she called days’ work. Day’s work is that she cleaned other people’s apartment and was paid by the day. Walter on page 9 says that he had eaten too many red icy pops and he started having a stomachache and started crying. He was being rushed to the Knickerbocker
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