In the book " Bad boy " by Walter Dean Myers , Walter is a boy that really cares about his education and loves to read. He feels uncomfortable bringing books home from the library cause he feels other boys in the neighborhood would make fun of him. It's in Harlem so many people up their play basketball , and really don't like reading. They rather play ball. So Walter gets bullied about it and rather hide who he really wants to be. He also grew up in the 1950's and 1960's which was a time where racial descragtion was in full affect. Which also made it harder on him since he gets treated bad for his skin color and also liking reading also made him "the nerd in the hood".
In this book Walter is scared to show books around his neighborhood. He puts books from his library in a bag to prevent other seeing it and making fun of him. Walter also grew up in a poor family in Harlem , so education is big to him. He wants a great successful future ahead of him. But he's skin color just makes everything harder. He grew up in the 50's and 60's where in our country was going threw segregation all over.
Reading this book made me feel bad for Walter. One because its a memoir which means this really happened to him. Then because Walter never really could have found his happiness as a kid. It was always a struggle. He could never feel confident to stop and read a book in public with out feeling sad and down. And also he grew up in the segregation era , which was a horrible period for our fellow African America's and black people.
This is a great book to read for a memoir mentor text. It's a great life line story of a kid in the 50's and 60's going threw a sturggle. It's also good to see how things where before our times in our country.
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