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In the book bad boy, Walter Dean Myers talks about his family background. In chapter one, Walter discussed his feelings about having no feelings for Mary Dolly Green because she died during the birth of my younger sister. Roots, the title of chapter one helps us to understand Walter’s background Even though Mary Dooly Green was Walters birth mother, he considered Florence Dean, his father first wife, his real mother. Walter had several family members that lived in this house. My father was now raising seven children. On page 3 Walter talks about his sisters, Gertrude, Ethel, Imogene and his two step sister from another marriage named Gerald and Viola. His family also included a brother named George. In chapter two, it talks about the first …show more content…
He was failing, so his sisters Viola’s husband told Walter he would help him when he was helping Walter he would give him 100 questions it says on page 20, that if he missed one just one he would have to start all the way over . On page 30, it talks about how Walter and this kid named Bunny got into a fight. Bunny was small and frail thing he had never got into a before. With just a couple of punches Walter was on laying on the ground bleeding. Walters’s teacher told him to het his mother, at lunch Walter walked home to go get her and boy did he fell sick. He was sweating. His mother rushed him to the ER and they told him he had to have his appendix token out. After they took it out the Doc told him to take it easy, Walter wanted to go outside one day when he still had the stiches. After he mom and dad left for work he thought he would he would just go and ride his bike around the block a couple times. When he saw his dad starting to pull up on his road he hurried to get his bike back the flight of stairs. When he did the opened one of his stiches and staring bleed really bad and then his mom and dad took him back to ER to get his stiches put back

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