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In the book Bad Boy chapter five is about the summer of 1942. Walter had tried to hang Richard but the pastor stopped them. Walter had realized he had trouble with his speech. Walter also gets a newspaper that tells him that black people are going to be treated the same as white people. Most of the kids that where raised in the north didn’t know much about saturation Walter were one of the people born in the north. Walter says in the story that the church he went to there was always whites involved. There were always street games to play on 122nd street it was safe because mothers always watch the kids play from inside. Walter ended up having the best report card he had ever gotten at the end of the year. In chapter 6 Walter

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