Setting in Hoops by Walter Dean Myers

     In this blog post i want to talk about the setting right now in Hoops. Walter Dean Myers does an amazing job of describing every single thing that's going on not only in the main part of the scene but everything that is going on. The Book takes place in Harlem and is about a 17 year old who is in love with basketball and that is his favorite thing in life.

     In one scene that i just read Walter describes every single thing that is going on and he makes the image so clear to see in your head. When I'm reading this book i can picture it and it makes me feel like i am there in the book as it is all taking place. He is one of the best authors in my opinion at making sure the reader can feel part of the scene and really picture themselves in what is going on in the book.
     Some other authors do the same thing when im reading there books but I've read a good amount of Walter Dean Myer's book and for every single one of them after just a couple pages of reading i get sucked in. It's not JUST the setting but I feel it is a really big part of why i enjoy reading all of his books so much. I have never read one of his books and not been satisfied at the end of it. Most of the time im actually upset when the book is over because I have become so attached to the characters and the book its hard for me to put it down and move on to a different book.
     That's why i love the setting in this book so far and that's why i love Walter dean Myers as an author!!!!!!!!!

Bronxwood *Spoiler Alert*

     My book Bronxwood just ended and I'm so sad it had to come to an end. Recently i have just been reading the greatest books. So what happened at the end of this book is The dealer that Tyrell was living with got shot in his building and the cops were looking all around it and Tyrell knew he would get in trouble for living in a building with drugs and he thought he might get arrested too. So he went to his dads house to see if he could live with him and they could stop fighting. But when he got there he saw his mom in the bathroom bloody and crying because his dad beat her up really badly. So Tyrell and his dad got in a huge argument and they began to fight. After the fight his dad was bleeding from the lip and the entire apartment was trashed. All Tyrell did was go into his dads bedroom take money out of his wallet, took some clothes and went to run away with his girlfriend and try and find somewhere to live.
     This was in my opinion the best ending i have ever read in a book. The author did an amazing job of explaining how everything was happening and how it was happening. I think if all authors did it the same way he did i would be a lot more interested in all books. The way the author described everything down to the setting of the last scene in the book was incredible. She broke down every element of the room after they fight and exactly how the bathroom looks where his mom is and how she looks.
    Overall this book was absolutely amazing and i loved so many things about it its hard to name all of them. The author did an amazing job of describing setting and how everything looked and the dialouge in the book was also really amazing. I reccomend it to anyone.
    

Bronxwood

I just started this new book and so far it has been so good. Its about this kid named Tyrell and he lives in the Bronx. His dad just got out of jail, his brother lives with foster parents and he has to pay his moms bills by djing at parties. He lives in a small awful apartment with a group of drug dealers but he can not get involved.
   The biggest problem in the book right now is going on between Tyrell and the drug dealers that live in his house. One of them just got beat up really badly and has to wIt a while to recover. He also got robbed so his boss is pissed because he lost a lot of money. Now his boss wants Tyrell to help out cause that was his best friend and Tyrell says yes because he could use the extra money and cause he is getting pressured into doing it. To me this is an example of peer pressure. A huge social issue that goes on all the time. Then as he is doing some of the work for the boss HE gets robbed and a gun is put to his head and they take all of his money. He thinks that the boss set him up as a way to get revenge for his friend losing all his money. I think the fact that he would do that is really messed up cause Tyrell was trying to help but he just got back stabbed in the end anyway. That's a reason why you shouldn't give in to peer pressure because a lot of the times it ends up for the worse. Peer pressure  goes on in a lot of different ways all the time.
     Another social action i see going on in this book is child support. Since Tyrell's father was sent to jail they put his little brother Troy into child care. Now that the Father is out they are trying as hard as they can to get him back home with his entire family. Even though Tyrell doesn't even live with his parents at the moment he still wants Troy to be with his family and for him to be happy so badly.