An Analysis Of Walter Dean Myers's 'Bad Boy'

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In life, people set goals that they try to reach, whether they are short or long term ambitions; what are yours? This question can only be answered by knowing who you are, and who you want to become. To find your true identity, you must first get an idea of how other people succeeded in doing so. By doing that, you will motivate yourself, and relate your situation and your problems with theirs, and apply what they have done to reach those goals to at your turn be successful. In the book Bad Boy, an autobiography written by Walter Dean Myers, a minor class boy teaches us to never stop fighting for what is right in order to reach our objectives.
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It is not a matter of what is good and bad in the eyes of people, but a matter of what is right or wrong through your judgments. In Farenheight 451 and in Bad Boy, books are characterized as “bad”. Both books describe books as a road that you take to escape the world, and settle in your mind and imagination, which will lead to having your own opinions. In Farenheight 451, having your own belief is bad because it will make you daring society, and change the course of living a utopian life; the utopian life the people controlling society want you to have. Since Walter is from a minority class in Bad Boy, then reading books is not preferably what his entourage would encourage him to do. They are afraid of him becoming an upper class person, which will lead to him getting a bad opinion on lower class people at his turn if he wants to set his mind as a wealthier class. Books are meant to make you travel, and use your imagination, not use your opinions for the wrong doing of this world. If we have none of these, no feelings, no imagination, and no thoughts, then we might as well be called robots. However, we are humans, and humans sense feelings and get their own sense of judgment, but yet their society would not allow them. However, Montag and Walter are both attached to books, and are willing to fight to protect them. As well as making both characters want to protect a cause in order to reach their goals, books will inspire others to do the

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