East O The Sun And West O The Sun: Summary

In chapter 5, Walter explains how big his summer of 1947 was to him. For example, on page 35, Walter explains how that time was when many famous black sportsmen received great achievements. For example, Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby were accepted into major league baseball. Also on page 36 and 37, Walter explains how that was also the time when a few people unexpectedly entered his life. Such as his biological father, George Myers, and his Uncle Lee who got released from prison. One bad thing that Walter did was on page 39, when he and his friends wanted to beat up a kid named Richard Aisles after he was seen hurting his eyes from the sun. Then, after reading a newspaper article about a black man being hanged in the South, they wanted to hang
Conway told Walter that he can’t participate in any class activity until he brought his mom to school. Walter couldn’t tell his mother about what he did. So, on page 45, he had to spend class time alone in the back of the classroom. However, he secretly brought some comic books for him to read, but Mrs. Conway saw what he was doing, and took the comics away and tore them up. Mrs. Conway then called Walter “a bad boy. A very bad boy”. Afterwards, she gave Walter a book called: “East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon”. It was a collection of Norwegian fairy tales that Walter really enjoyed reading. So much so that he asked Mrs. Conway if he could take the book home. However, she said no, but he could read it every day in class if he could behave himself. Walter promised that he would, and for a whole week he read the book and loved it so much that Walter called it “the best book he had ever read”. This was when Walter realized how much he loved reading, and Mrs. Conway kept giving him more books to read while Walter was doing a good job with his poems. In the end of the year, he got what he calls his “best report card ever”, and found that the school magazine used one of his poems. Walter was so happy, that he ran to his house to show his