In the book “Bad Boy” by Walter Dean Myers,the characters in the story continue to invoke the phrase “Bad Boy” to intensify the story and to make the reader think that the book will climax. Throughout the book-memoir Walter who is the main character continues to lead himself into situations that would characterize him as a detrimental boy. These situations causes the book to rise then optimally fall and the book continues to drag on. I feel the title of this book misleads readers to think that they book will feature “action-packed adventures” in Harlem, but instead the book gives the life story of its author and how he got through all of his hard-arduous times. Instead the book should be called “Harlem” because in all of the chapters of the
