In Chapter 8, the major event would be that Walter wants to write about Harlem. Walter stated that he wanted to see Harlem in the eyes of the Englishmen in his textbook, so on page 79 Walter made his way down to the Hudson River to start his investigation. Walter later decides that he couldn’t about Harlem, and this is where we start chapter 9. Chapter 9 was mostly about Walter’s respect for Ms. Elizabeth Barret’s sonnets. On page 95, Walter stated that the reason why he liked her sonnets so much is that “they were personal, and that I could understand them. ’By the end of chapter 9, Walter felt that he grew further away from his parents because of his reading and writing, and also strived for his father’s support. Finally, we get to chapter
