The Baddest Dog in Harlem

Youll prolong to be forged to waste ones time it on in your the Statesn skin When we go to school or to our jobs we diswhitethorn int hire many worries. The worries we could have could be Oh no, theres a psychometric test today or Oh no, my boss wants me to do some paperwork but what if we had to subsist in fear instead of worries? If in the morning we should fear to go to school or job because of the place we atomic number 18 active in, that we had to register properly goodbye to your family e really day, what would that do to us? The Baddest Dog in Harlem is writen by Walter Dean Myers and it is a fictional condensed legend.The wretched drool takes place in Harlem, at 145th street1. It could be in a year non far from the present, because of the technology used in the short story, such as cars2 and automatic weapons3 and its in the middle of the day. The realm believems rough and attends deal a place where you have seen the guard often4 and it seems like peop le argon bored and doesnt have many bullion or jobs5. The fibber and his friends are sitting at the rail extracurricular Big Joes and whistles abtaboo whos the best mavin in the world. The conversation got heated up when Willie Murphy participate in the debate.He is that kind of guy who al focuss call backs he is right hardly because he is older than the others and when the narrator doesnt think it can get worsened Mr. Lynch, an even older man, joins the debate. Suddenly two natural laws cars are tearing roughly the corner. The bread in front of the boys and starts interrogate them and tell them to stay at the rail. Afterwards the cops start crunching behind their cars and look upon a window in the apartwork forcet at the other side of the street, pointing with their guns towards it. When the narrator realizes what is going on, he wanders off into a cafeteria nearby.A cop comes into the cafeteria and he says there have been a report more or less someone with an automatic weapon and tells every tree trunk to drop grim on the foot. A cop trips and he guns goes off, all the cops start shooting and people are screaming and yelling. After a while the cops stops shooting and a girl who lives in the block turns up. The cops want her to go up to her apartment but she wants a black man with her and because a cop pulls the narrator with them. In her apartment everything is ruined and her clink is dead. The cops go to the apartment next door but come out in a hurry.The narrator walks into the apartment and sees a boy fabrication on the bed putz and dead. The narrator is in first mortal and seems reliable and is in any case the main character in the short story. We that get to know intimately the narrators thoughts and feelings but we dont catch out untold intimately them either, his personality is described by his thoughts and actions. The characters in the short story are not described only(prenominal) a short bit about Mr. Lynch and Willie but beside those two, are the character base upon their actions and sayings.The narrator is a black man, because he refers to the black cop as a brother, we dont know his age or his name but by based on the story I will approximately guess he is in his twenties. Willie is older than the narrator and is in his thirties6 but the cop chose the narrator to go with Mary to her apartment7 and accordingly I dont think he is a kid. The story is told in past tense and is chronological. When you read the short story you get a picture in you head of a ghetto and the language in the story is youthful and a bit slang8.They also leave lyric poem out. You get connotations in your head and you think about American movies where you also see the youth talk in this way. The general tactile property is collateral but also a bit cool and laid back. They dont try to sound smarter or different either when they talk to the police. They talk their language, which make it seem like they are an unity. I th ink the subject area the narrator tries to get through in this short story, is the tough life there is in the ghetto. The boy who got flavor in the ghetto was just watching television but he wasnt safe anyway.Its a harsh environment to live in, an environment where you can be in constant fear of being robbed or shot. The song American Skin (41 shots) by Bruce Springsteen also gives a good perspective of how it is in America. He sings No secret my friend, you can get killed just for living in, your American Skin9 The ssimilarities in the two textual matterual matters is the theme. They are both essay to lay out how the world is every day for some people in America and to have an influence on us, make us think about those who arent as fortunate as we are and how we should ppreciate our way of living. I really think the short story and the song as healthy gives you something to think about. I believe the environment the narrator lives in makes him tough. When youre living in a g hetto or an environment which is rough, youll have to be tough even though you on the inside is falling apart. And I think thats what the narrator goes through. They are used to guns and crime, therefore are they not so afraid of the police and the situation and also the kids have it like this. But when the narrator sees the boy, he doesnt want to tell about it.The Baddest Dog in HarlemThe owner Of the apartment (Mary) that just got shot up, returns home and begins a debate with the police who are interested in the whereabouts of her boyfriend. Eventually Mary, some cops and the narrator goes together into her apartment. The police suspect is not there, but the place is completely shot up and on the floor Marry get behind lays dead from multiple bullet wounds. On the way back down from Marry apartment again, the police take fall upon of another apartment door and they inspect that apartment also, where they determine the body of a young black boy ho has also been shot and killed -? an innocent victim of the earlier police gunfire.Characterization of characters The main character in the text is the narrator. He is certainly a black man. Do not know for certain the name of the narrator, but it is easy to assume that it may be the author Walter Dean Myers. Readers are not given much information of the about the central character in the text, but it becomes unequivocal that the main character as well as the rest of his debating radical are black people. The main character (Myers) seems to me like a very scared and nervous person. Point of view The while story is presented with the narrators eyes. It is a first person narrator.Title The title The baddies red hot in Harlem stems from Marry sorry dog. When Mary, the police and the central character go up to check the apartment, they find the bullet-riddled dog that some policemen thought might have been their suspect (from jumping virtually in the window during the police gunfire). This leads one of the pol icemen to ironically say, It is the baddies dog in Harlem. Settings The setting takes place outside of a cafe or similar place called Big Joeys Place, on 45th street in Harlem, LISA where the narrator, Willie, Pedro, Tommy, Mr.. Lynch and the others are initially sitting and talking.Harlem, a no-good area of Manhattan, is the home to many thousands of black people. Harlem goes under the term Ghetto. many people living there do not have jobs, and they live in big, run-down apartment buildings with dilapidated apartments. Harlem is known as a poor slum area, full of gangs and crime. The setting of Harlem is used in this text to help demonstrate how an ordinary day can change in an instant and turn a peaceful conversation teen friends to a police War zone with shooting all over the place. Tone The text is indite in spoken language, and there are many abridgement whispered words.Many words are purposely MIS-spelled to show how they should be pronounced. The narrators expression t o write the story reflects the Way he pronounces the words and he has written the story in a way that you should be able to see themselves within the situation he describes. In this way he make use of different tones of voice and criticism, among other things. He also uses emotions such as humor and compassion. It all fits however, with how the story changes and how he has written the story. Themes The theme of the text could be meant to demonstrate the (stereotypical) racism, between police and black people.For good example, the police asked them to stay where they are outside on the street, instead of helping them to get to a safe place. The text is written down as it has been said, and the tone is very hard when the police talk to the blacks. For example, when they talk to Mary. Another example also, is how they react about having shot Mars dog. The police only make jokes of it. They seem not so affected that they had shot the little boy, perhaps only thinking they need to find a cover up story about his death. I think that they would have reacted differently if it was a exsanguine boy in a better, safer environment.I would say that the author here shows a good example of how a typical ghetto in USA is, and how the police can discriminate against some people. Message think the writer is nerve-racking to tell us that it is tragic but true that black men live in a very different risk take aim than white people. Police in the United States eve easily and speedily are pulling weapons if they do not feel safe especially when they are in slum neighborhoods like Harlem. Think the narrator is trying to get us to look reality in the eye and he wants us to understand that life is not easy for anyone.Parallels between The baddies dog in Harlem and the song text American Skin (41 shots) by Bruce springtime The comparison between the two stories is that they are both talking about how terrible reality can be for African Americans. The song American Skin tells the story of an African American mother, who tells her son to be close and how he should always e polite to the police he must(prenominal) never do anything to provoke them, because there is the risk that the police may shoot them, as they are African Americans and because they may live in a poor environment.In the text, The baddies dog in Harlem we read about how the police treated the blacks in Harlem, They have no respect for them, but in return they must have respect for the police. Generally, they both warn about how black Americans must be much more careful when around the police. Conclusion After reading the two texts, was surprised how such things are not just appending in the texts, but also in reality. It is distressing how in some places in the United States, the lives of black people is at risk from the police do to the fact that they look different.