Summary:
Walter's new was Stuyvesant where his first year grades were horrible. Speech therapy was recommended, but he didn't go because people didn't seem to care if he went anyways. Walter than starts to talk about his friend Mickey and how he caught a men snatching a woman's pursue, that was one of the things that happened on Harlem streets that according to Walter. When he turned 15, he needed a job and was told he could come down to the Garment Center, a company that once was the busiest place in New York. He gets the job, but its not enough to do things like buy himself cloths that he would like. His mother was struggling to and she relied on he lottery hoping she would win someday. Slowly Walter began to do better, his writing appearing in the Life magazine and earning 14 dollars a week at his job. Walter talks about how basketball got him interested in it again because it could give him a free scholarship to college. During one of his practice sessions outside a kid by the name of Frank Hall was getting jumped, and Walter went out to help him. Soon they became close friends. As school started back up again, he was getting corrections of all the weaknesses in his writing which was overload for him at the time. He started to get a lot of warning notices about how he was doing poorly and he forged his mother's signatures, but he soon got caught. He soon gets confronted by both of his parents where he admits how he caused to much destruction, and he changes for the better.
Quote:
"All in all it has been a great journey and not at all shabby for a bad boy"( Myers 206).
Reaction:
I think Walter Lee Myers is trying to say that even though he was involved into a lot of trouble, he still loves the life that he lives. The live that he lived was one fulled with books and ideas that he could express through writing. Walter believes its been a long trip for him and it was not bad for a person like him.
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