In the book Bad Boy by: Walter Dean Myers eight year old Walter gets the responsibility of turning off the lights and locking the door when he leaves because he is the last person to leave the house because his dad got drafted in the navy and his mother and sisters worked in the garment industry and Walter had been given a house key. When you get a house key you get responsibility. For Walter being the youngest he got a chance to feel like he ran something, like he was in control. When I even got a key chain when I was younger I couldn't wait to put a key on it because when you have a key you feel like you own something. I got my first house key when I was older than Walter when I got my house key I was 10 and in the fourth grade. From 1st to 3rd grade I never rode the bus so there was no need for me to have a house key I would just stay at school and wait on my mom in her classroom and complain to her about how hungry I was. Having a house key was like a sign of status for Walter if you had a house key that meant that your parent was employed and for me well I just thought it looked cool. When you get a key you can do things your parents don't want you doing and for Walter that was reading comic books that he got from his neighbor Ralph Williams for me I would watch my favorite television show while I did my homework. At first I didn't like the idea of being home by myself I would get scared and being so used to my siblings always being home with me I got lonely sometimes but I grew to get used to it and eventually started to enjoy being by myself and the being responsible with my key made me more responsible for other things in the future.
Hey Asha, it's your girl Lauren. I can relate to this on so many levels right now. Considering I went to Duke School, and there was no such thing as a school bus or any other option of transportation to get home, I always rode in the car with my parents. This meant that I didn't need a house key, and as I grew older, I didn't feel as responsible as my other friends who did obtain a house key. I think the fact that you connected your own experiences with Walter Dean Myers is great, and that at some point we will all find a book that we can connect to on a level such as this. Good job, stay poppin' girl!
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ReplyDeletei liked your use of analogy when you related Walter receiving a house key to you receiving a house key and how that represented responsibility to you. I also liked how you described your transformation from loneliness to appreciating times of being alone with yourself. You also mentioned that there was as sense of status when you first received something like a key, which I can totally agree with! Your writing was super and I loved reading it!
ReplyDeleteHey Asha, what's good. I loved how you connected this story to your own life and how you didn't like staying home alone at first even though you finally had that responsibility. I can relate girl. I. Can. Relate. I always had my brother with me right. Like I'm not one to get scared, I'm never scared. So I'm fine when I'm home alone just by myself except when I'm not. That made no sense but gimme a minute. So basically I feel exceptionally safe when my brother is in the house with me but I'm fine without anyone else with me. This year he's out of the house and is at college and I find myself alone in the house a lot of times. For some reason there's this weird empty feeling in the house because a lot of the time my brother would be at home with me and just taking up space you know. Now that he's gone that space is empty and it just makes me really sad, so I'm a way I don't like being at home by myself. But it is nice to have my own time and sing as loud as I want ‼️‼️ But there is the occasional time when I'm maybe the most stupid girl and decide to watch a horror movie (Hush is really good but scared the crap out of me) so I watched Hush and then my parents decided to go on a date (thanks a lot mom) so I'm just left at home literally locked in my room all the lights turned on because I swear there's a masked serial killer outside. Anyways thanks for reading ?? I guess maybe not it made no sense but ya know 💗⚡️
ReplyDeleteHey Asha yeah getting a house key is literally the best thing every. You kind of feel independent since you can sort of enter the house at anytime when no one is around and you can stay home by yourself. At first I thought staying home was scary like you did but after a while I thought it was actually kinda cool cause I was able to do anything that I wanted.
ReplyDeleteHey Asha yeah getting a house key is literally the best thing every. You kind of feel independent since you can sort of enter the house at anytime when no one is around and you can stay home by yourself. At first I thought staying home was scary like you did but after a while I thought it was actually kinda cool cause I was able to do anything that I wanted.
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