The baddest dog in harlem - Analytical essay
Power of the Police
The short story “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” is written by Walter Dean Myers and is a short story in the collection of short stories “145th Street”. 145th Street is also where the “the Baddest Dog in Harlem” is taking place.
Some friends were sitting on the rail outside of Big Joe’s place. Suddenly the police appear and the trouble starts. The police are looking for a man with an automatic gun. Lots of people are gathering to see what is going on, and a kid yells out that he saw somebody in the building that the police were staring at. Immediately the police start shooting. After a while the owner of the apartment in the building that the police shot at shows up. She wants a black person to go with her and the police up to the apartment, and the main character goes with them. Her apartment is filled with bullet holes and her dog is dead. They see that a door to an apartment nearby is open. When they walk in to the apartment they discover that they also have killed a little black kid.
The composition is constructed chronologically and takes place in Harlem, which is a neighbour hood, located in the northern Manhattan in New York.1 It is told in past tense with a first person narrator. “The cop looked over at us and didn’t say nothing”.2 The environment in the short story is a poor environment with a high unemployment rate. “One thing about 145th Street. Half the guys on the block don’t have jobs so they’re always in the stoops or just standing with nothing to do.”3 Another thing about the environment is that a major part of the citizens in Harlem is African-Americans.4 Harlem is also a place with a high criminality rate and people tend to be violent “... what a shame it was the way life could slip away so easily in Harlem”.
The setting takes place around the 70’s because of the boxers mentioned in the beginning. Both Muhammad Ali and Roberto Durán had their days of glory in the 70’s.56 Willie also said that the greatest boxer of all
The short story “The Baddest Dog in Harlem” is written by Walter Dean Myers and is a short story in the collection of short stories “145th Street”. 145th Street is also where the “the Baddest Dog in Harlem” is taking place.
Some friends were sitting on the rail outside of Big Joe’s place. Suddenly the police appear and the trouble starts. The police are looking for a man with an automatic gun. Lots of people are gathering to see what is going on, and a kid yells out that he saw somebody in the building that the police were staring at. Immediately the police start shooting. After a while the owner of the apartment in the building that the police shot at shows up. She wants a black person to go with her and the police up to the apartment, and the main character goes with them. Her apartment is filled with bullet holes and her dog is dead. They see that a door to an apartment nearby is open. When they walk in to the apartment they discover that they also have killed a little black kid.
The composition is constructed chronologically and takes place in Harlem, which is a neighbour hood, located in the northern Manhattan in New York.1 It is told in past tense with a first person narrator. “The cop looked over at us and didn’t say nothing”.2 The environment in the short story is a poor environment with a high unemployment rate. “One thing about 145th Street. Half the guys on the block don’t have jobs so they’re always in the stoops or just standing with nothing to do.”3 Another thing about the environment is that a major part of the citizens in Harlem is African-Americans.4 Harlem is also a place with a high criminality rate and people tend to be violent “... what a shame it was the way life could slip away so easily in Harlem”.
The setting takes place around the 70’s because of the boxers mentioned in the beginning. Both Muhammad Ali and Roberto Durán had their days of glory in the 70’s.56 Willie also said that the greatest boxer of all