In chapter 5, Walter earns his title “Bad Boy” because of a fight he is in. what he does to earn this title is reads comic books and his teacher then comes by and rips them up and shoves a book in front of him. The teacher then yells at him, as it states on page 45 “you are a boy, a Bad, Bad Boy” and also on page 43, it states that being good was hard for him. The book also states that he would answer things out loud while he was supposed to raise his hand. Walter, the newly appointed bad boy, got sent to the back of the room where he then reads a book which would then be his favorite. Walter also makes friends and the try to lynch a kid named Richard for no reason. The new preacher at that point found them and was astonished because lynching
