Bad Boy: A Memior By Walter Dean Myers

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Bad Boy: A Memior by Walter Dean Myers is about isolation, racism and value of education. Isolation changes Walter’s perspective of his parents. Racism effects the way Walter sees the world. His value of education changes almost every year of Walter’s school days. Isolation changes Walter’s perspective on his parent’s from over many years. As a kid he had to take care of himself. In second grade, he had his own house key, he decided what he wanted to do. Walter’s teacher’s thought he was “bad”, so they would always put him in the back of the class or in the closet. This effected the way he got to ineract with other students.
Racism changes the way Walter sees the world. When Walter was young he never really understood what racism was. He

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