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trash to one person could be another’s treasure, no matter the monetary value of the object. As long as an item is important to the person and is held dear in their heart, that is considered their wealth. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, Greg discovers the true meaning of treasure through his encounter with a homeless man. While some loved items have profit, the littlest thing could be someone’s greatest treasure because it is a piece of them and is handled with utmost care…

Throughout Section Five of The Glory Field, Walter Dean Myers conveys several themes about the shared experiences of humans. Here, he suggests that security, stability, and identity are crucial components of human beings’ survival in the mental and social world. Myers communicates this message through the diverse perspectives of his characters, creating a clear and profound narrative that chronicles humans’ interactions with the concepts of permanence and perspective. In the fifth section of the…

Walter Dean Myers insightful novel “Monster,” is told through the eyes of a young man accused of armed robbery and murder. Steve, a teenager accused of murder tells the story of his experience in court and in prison. Throughout the entire book the reader must decide if they think Steve is guilty or innocent. Towards the middle of the book we find out that Steve has been framed, whether people will believe Steve or not is the ongoing internal struggle throughout the entire book. The people in…

False convictions can occur for a myriad of reasons and are detrimental to those who are innocent yet imprisoned for a crime that was committed by someone else. In the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers, James King is on trial for the felony murder of a drugstore owner during the robbery of said drugstore. There is very little evidence and hardly believable witnesses, but King is still found “guilty” by the jury. Upon observing the evidence presented in James King’s trial, the jury should have…

Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, tells the story about a teenage boy who goes to fight in the Vietnam War. The young boy is a black, seventeen year old and goes by the name of Richie Perry. By the time he graduates from Harlem, he decides he is going to go fight in the Vietnam War for the United States Army. Perry is sent off to basic training and when he is ready to leave for Vietnam he begins to have horrible thoughts and illusions of the war and fighting in the front. Perry has been told…

distant, and childhood friends or relations become strangers. We see this in chapter seven of Wuthering Heights when Catherine returns home from being with the Lintons. Chapter seven is told from the point of view of Miss. Nelly Dean, the caretaker for the Earnshaws. Miss. Dean, as Lockwood realizes, offers an inside scoop on the melodrama that is the Linton and Earnshaw’s life. She describes the moment in which Catherine returns home after spending five weeks in the Linton’s home, recovering…

In chapter 5 of the book Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers talks about how the summer of 47 was one of eager anticipation for black people across the country. The New York Amsterdam News, his local weekly Negro newspaper. It suggested that the U.S. was now going to treat Negros as equals for the FIRST time. This also was the summer when he could meet his father George Myers. He was a smallish browned skinned man who wore thick glasses Walter describes him as. During that time he also tried to hang a…

The first black dean of Yale College was awaken out of his sleep by a phone call on Thursday night. The phone call was in regards to students approaching his home of campus. The students were protesting in regards to racial tension on campus. Dr. Johnathan Holloway prides himself on having a good student /president relationship. He is also a scholar of African American history. He was taken aback with the students protest. He called the president of Yale and advised him to get dress…

face injustice to this day and biases based on the color of a person’s skin often determine where they end up in life. Walter Dean Myers writes about a 16-year old boy named Steve Harmon who is on trial for murder. Throughout the story, the reader pieces together evidence that clearly points to Steve’s innocence while the jury thinks him guilty based on his race. In Walter Dean Myers’ “Monster”, the author reveals that racism takes away a person’s power and humanity as shown through vivid…

This Realistic Novel called Fallen Angels was written By Walter Dean Myers and was publicized in 1988. This book is very controversial and viewed very differently by some people. Which is why I chose to ultimately read it and do a report about. Some people loved this book and some people hated it. I was one of the ones to completely fall in love with this very dramatic and realistic Novel. It was written about the Vietnam War. Walter Dean Myers was a war veteran who enlisted in the war at the…