Bad Boy Chapter 1 Analysis

In the book Bad Boy in chapter 8 “A Writer Observes” on page 78 talks about when Walter finds comfort when they are at Rockaway Beach. Also In chapter 8 Walter and the group of boys try to steal the transfer pads on page 86-87 it states that but forcibly they got caught so that lead to a lot of trouble. Then he was mad because he couldn’t go to Eddie’s birthday party because, he wasn’t white on pages 88-89it states in the book. In Chapter 9,”Sonnets from the Portuguese”. It states that the only sport that he was playing now was basketball. Then on page 95 it talks about how Walter love Robert Browning poets. The reason why he loved her poets because, it was personal and, Walter loved personal stuff because he was able to understand
Walter states on Pg 106, “Stuyvesant High School had everything wrong with it. It was an all-boys school, which I didn’t know until after I arrived. Stuyvesant was in decrepit condition, tucked all the way downtown, nearly an hour’s travel from Harlem”.

In chapter 11 Walter had to pick a job at the age of 15. The last thing he wanted to do was work at a garment center, which he even lied about when someone offered him a job at. “I have to get a job through the school I lied”. He had got the job at the garment cent. later on he was fired for not pushing a cart.

To wrap it up , in chapter 12 Walter was 15 and he was missing to much school. “I had been out of school three weeks…”Walter was doing nothing and was out of school. He was back in school In this chapter he had also met Langston Hughes. It didn’t surprise Walter at all. Walter had felt nothing excited about him. Then at the end of chapter 12 Walter sneaks into a bar, just so he could meet one of his favorite poets, Dylan Thomas. When Walter arrives though, Dylan was already carried off drunk and then Walter said when he was older he said he wanted to do