In Chapter 5 it starts off in the summer of 1947 when black and white people started to be treated equally. For example this is the year when Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby got to play in major league baseball. His biological father George Myers and his new wife Tommy moved in near Walter's house. Walter got to see him for the first time in a long time. Walter also got to meet his some half brothers and sisters and his whole brother Micky. They became friends quickly. Walter also met his Uncle Lee who just got out of jail. Later Walter and his friend Johnny Lightbourne wanted to beat up this kind Richard but they read in a newspaper that a guy in the South got hung. That sounded interesting to Walter and Johnny. They took Richard down into
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Walter also talks about how being beaten in his neighborhood wasn't considered abuse. September came around and Walter was into sports and loved baseball, especially the Dodgers. Neighborhood kids and Walter would play different ball games in the street and pretend to be Jackie Robinson sliding into bases and everything. In school kids would make fun of him because of his speech difficulty. When Walter would try to read a passage people would make laugh. So he threw the book and sometimes punched kids. His teacher Mrs. Conway would send him to the closest. For the rest of the year Mrs. Conway would read the poems he wrote or not pick on him at all. Alot of the time he would be in the back of the classroom reading a book. That year he recieved the best marks on his report card then any other year. He was so happy. His school celebrated their Golden Anniversary that year and one of Walter's poems "My Mama" to be in the school magazine. He was so elated that he ran all the way home to show …show more content…
Sometimes they would go to Macy's or Gimbel's or to different stores along 14th Street . They would see white people that wore suites and white shirts to jobs in offices and stores. They would also see black people and Jewish people who were businessmen that would also walk down the street side by side. Walter also talked about the entertainment that were open to young people including movies and live shows. Some of these places included Loew's and Alhambra which showed first run movies, The Apollo which had live entertainment and movies. He also talked about the Harlem Opera House which had once shown live performances when Harlem was mostly white people and showed alder films. He talked a little more about enteretainment then went on to talk about him loving to play ball. He loved to play basketball, stoop ball, punch ball and baseball. He just loved being athletic. He followed hockey for a while but then lost interest. Since Walter was out of school he didn't get to read books from Mrs. Conway's books. So he found out about the public library and went there on a regular basis. But since boys would tease him about reading on his way home from the library he would take them home in a paper bag. He didn't let those boys ruin his love for books. He felt comfort when he read and they filled up spaces in his life that he felt were missing. Walter felt that books were special and he didn't want to fight over them. One day when
Walter also talks about how being beaten in his neighborhood wasn't considered abuse. September came around and Walter was into sports and loved baseball, especially the Dodgers. Neighborhood kids and Walter would play different ball games in the street and pretend to be Jackie Robinson sliding into bases and everything. In school kids would make fun of him because of his speech difficulty. When Walter would try to read a passage people would make laugh. So he threw the book and sometimes punched kids. His teacher Mrs. Conway would send him to the closest. For the rest of the year Mrs. Conway would read the poems he wrote or not pick on him at all. Alot of the time he would be in the back of the classroom reading a book. That year he recieved the best marks on his report card then any other year. He was so happy. His school celebrated their Golden Anniversary that year and one of Walter's poems "My Mama" to be in the school magazine. He was so elated that he ran all the way home to show …show more content…
Sometimes they would go to Macy's or Gimbel's or to different stores along 14th Street . They would see white people that wore suites and white shirts to jobs in offices and stores. They would also see black people and Jewish people who were businessmen that would also walk down the street side by side. Walter also talked about the entertainment that were open to young people including movies and live shows. Some of these places included Loew's and Alhambra which showed first run movies, The Apollo which had live entertainment and movies. He also talked about the Harlem Opera House which had once shown live performances when Harlem was mostly white people and showed alder films. He talked a little more about enteretainment then went on to talk about him loving to play ball. He loved to play basketball, stoop ball, punch ball and baseball. He just loved being athletic. He followed hockey for a while but then lost interest. Since Walter was out of school he didn't get to read books from Mrs. Conway's books. So he found out about the public library and went there on a regular basis. But since boys would tease him about reading on his way home from the library he would take them home in a paper bag. He didn't let those boys ruin his love for books. He felt comfort when he read and they filled up spaces in his life that he felt were missing. Walter felt that books were special and he didn't want to fight over them. One day when