Walter Dean Myers Chapter Summary

In the story bad boy Walter Dean Myers tells us about his past in chapter one. Myers starts by talking about his Great Great Uncle Lucas Dennis and how part of the Dennis family moved to Martinsburg, West Virginia. The Dennis family soon merged with the Green family. And Mary Dolly Green later became Walters’s mother. Myers was the four of the fifth children Mary had. Unfortunately Mary died shortly after her fifth child. Leaving George Myers with seven children Gertrude, Ethel, George, Walter, Imogene, Geraldine and Viola. However today when Myers thinks of mother he thinks of another woman George Myers first wife Florence Dean. In the next chapter Walter shows us the first place he called home Harlem, New York. Walters’s earliest memory is having a woman pick him up on Sunday morning to take him to Sunday school. Walter says that life was about being with the woman he was learning to call mama Florence Dean. When Florence was home Walter would follow her from room to room as she cleaned, talking about anything that came to mind. Walters’s favorite thing to do was listen to Florence read her True Romance magazines. He Sayed the sound of his Mamas voice was like a special kind of music meant only for him.
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Because of Walters low marks on his report card a deal was worked out to where Walter would came directly home from bible school and spend two hours working on math problems. School started September first and Walter had planned to be on his best behavior. That didn’t last long Walter got into a fight with a boy named bunny. Bunny got two good licks on Walter one to the head the other one to the stomach then he started running. Natural Walters’s teacher blamed him for everything. Once Walter was home he started to have stomach cramps so he went to the hospital. He went into surgery to have his appendix taking