In chapter five, Walter and his friends tried to hang Richard. To the pastor this was shocking because the pastor knew what it meant. Walter had trouble with his speech and realized it when he had to read in front of the whole class. Later on in Walters’s life, Walters’s father moved to Harlem. Most people called Walter, Walter Dean. Walter considered the Deans his real family so he didn’t mind. In Mrs. Conway’s class it only took Walter one day to get in trouble. Walters’s highest grade was on that class was the spelling test. Toward the end of chapter five on page 46 it states, “Mrs. Conway gave me another book to read in class and because it was the weekend, she allowed me to take it home to read. From that day on I liked Mrs. Conway.” In
