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Friday, April 22, 2011
Discussion #1
Based on the Biography posted and other readings we have done in class; discuss at least two experiences or incidents in Myers’ life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style.
Two experiences or incidents that may have influenced Myer's writing career and writing style are his mom reading him magazines and his dad telling him stories. Myers said that it expanded his creativity. He said, "When I was a child my father talked to me, told me absurdly wonderful stories. It was these stories that allowed me to release the balloon of my imagination, and to let it soar." He also said, "It was my mother, reading her magazines, that furthered that imagination." It was his mother's readings and his father's stories that influenced his writing career and his writing style.
Based on the biography posted and other readings we have done in class, the two experiences or incidents in Myer's life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style are, his mother reading to him, his father telling him stories, and the death of his brother. I believe these experiences influenced him because if his mother had not read magazines with him, he wouldn't know how to read or write. As it states in the autobiography we read to him "Florence had taught herself to read, and then she taught her adopted son by letting him read the true romance magazines stories she liked". So by this phrase you can tell by teaching herself to read she influenced her son to read. And if his dad never told him stories, he never would have been introduced to different genres or inspirational stories or open his imagination. I also believe that the death of his brother influenced him because, he would not have gone to war and experience it himself and write a book in his brother's honor.
There are experiences and incidents in Myers' life that influenced his writing career. One experience as a boy that happened is, that he moved to Harlem. At that time Harlem was a bad place to live in. Myers saw gangs, drugseelers, and other things when he was living in Harlem. Living in Harlem affected Myers writing because he would write about what was going on around him, in Harlem. The second experiences is, in Myers teen years he started to get frustrated about how to pay for college.(At that time Myers had a job) When Myers got frustrated he wouldn't get his work done for school. He would write in his jounal about his day. Then he dropped out of school,he wrote a story relating to want happened to him at school. The book is called "Bad Boys".
in the passage, one of the things that inspired his life is the teacher. Who said writing is what you do and dont do anything else. myers followed that when he moved to new york. and with that in mind he started his REAL career.
The death of his parents and his brother were very hard on myers. He might have wrote books to keep there memories alive.His mother died when he was two, his brother died when he was in the army, and his dad died when he started writing books.This impacted walter very hard.but he just went on with life.
One experience or incident that influenced Walter Dean Myers to write, was that as a child, he was often laughed at and teased by his class mates because of his speech impediment and he would lash out. At home he wasn't afraid to read, and he read for hours. Another experience, was that his father would read him stories when he was younger and that encouriged him to write his own stories because it developed his own imagination.
Many things influenced Walter Dean Myers writing. One experience was his foster mom reading to him at an early age. As a result, she taught him how to read. It also gave him the skills he has today as a writer. Secondly, his foster parents were so loving and caring it strengthened him even when he had forgotten his source. It strengthened him to be a better person, which helped him write about how hard his childhood life was when he was a poor child. As a result, he became an inspiration to others who read his work.
Two experience or incidents in Myer's life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style are the way he was raised and his brother's death. As a child, "his father talked to him and told him absurdly wonderful stories that allowed him to release ballons of his imagination".
Another incident that may have influenced him to write is when his half- brother Wayne was killed in Vietnam. He wrote a tribute for essence magazine. He wrote because he was sad because his brother died and he wanted to thank his brother for saving the country.
One experience or incident in Myers' life that have influenced his writing career and writing style is, first, his brother dying. Walter and his brother were very close. Walter and his brother loved each other so much. He even wrote a book called "Fallen Angels" in honor of his bother dying in the army. Another experience or incident in Myers' life that influenced his writing career and writing style is that he moved to Harlem. He moved near the poet Langston Hughes. When he moved to Harlem there were lots of gangs and bad people. There was also bad fighting on the streets. As a result from living in Harlem most of his books are about young teens and drugs in Harlem. He also writes to teach people a lesson and show them not to do wrong. -Cocoa Puffs
One experience or incident in Myers' life that have influenced his writing career and writing style is that Myers' teacher realized he could read aloud in class with little difficulty if he was reading words that he had written himself. Myers had a speech impediment and was scared that his classmates might tease him.
Another experience or incident in Myers' life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is that his half-brother died when he was in the army. Myers wrote aboout his brother because he was sad that his brother died and he wrote about how his brother served the country.
Besed on the biography posted and other readings in class, one incident that might have influenced his writing style was his mother(foster mother) started reading to him when he was young. She read about love and romance. He also started reading and writing. Myers wrote about love and fiction in his books. He started improving his education by going to the libary and school. Secondly, Myers lived in a very bad city. Therfore he has seen people use and sell drugs, and a lot of gang wars. As a result, his books were about drugs and other things he has seen in his life. For example his book "The Beast" he writes about the narrators girlfriend having a drug addiction. Also how it eats away her hopes, dreams, and future.
Myers saw how girls and boys used drugs and how they were messing their lives up. Thats what influenced him to write a novel about teenagers who use drugs and what goes on in their lives. One such novel is called "Monster". Myers wanted to let out his feelings probably about not having his mother with him. He wrote a story about a kid who didnt't have his parents with him and how sad the kid felt. Another exprience was when his step brother died in the army. To honor him, he wrote a novel called "The Fallen Angel".
One experience or incident in Myers’ life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is first, when he went to the library he feel in love with books. All those books he read gave him an imagination that helped him write books. Those books gave him ideas. Ideas which would help him write. Secondly, since his brother’s death Myers got very sad. So he wrote a book called "Fallen Angels" to honor his brother's memory. His brother got shot and killed in Vietnam.
One experience that may have influenced his writing style is how he grew up with drugs in Harlem. Myers saw how boys and girls used drugs to feel better about themselves and how they are messing up their lives. That helped influence him to write a novel about teenagers using drugs. He also wrote it to keep other teens away from drugs. Another experience that may have influenced his writing style is when he heard about his brother’s death in Vietnam on the first day he was there. This influenced Myers because he felt that he had to pay his respects to him by writing a novel about him.
When Walter Dean Myers was a young boy,he couldn't read or write so then his stepmom taught him by reading books to him. When he would read a book he would pay attention to the words instead of the pictures.Reading and writing inspired him to write his own books. Later on,he wrote books about teenagers' lives for example he would write books about teens dropping out of school and making bad decisions. When Myers' half brother went in the army he went to war with Vietnam.On the first day there,his brother got shot. Myers was depressed so he wrote a book to honor him. The book that Myers wrote was called "The Fallen Angel".
Experiences and incidents that may have influenced Walter Dean Myer's writing are, first Walter was born in the middle of the Great Depression, between 1929 and 1941.In those days Blacks and Hispanics were poor, had no resources, and had no life necessities, so that experience gave him more inspiration to write about the poverty of Black and Hispanics. Secondly Myer's moved to Harlem when he was a child where he would see children playing in the park with drug dealers, and gangs. That experience made him more to write about Black and Hispanics people so that when they read a book of his, they would see how children suffer and that children would stay out of drug dealing and gangs.Thirdly Myer's little brother died in combat on his first day in the army and Myer's wrote Fallen Angels for him. The reason he wrote this is to explain the life of his brother and how he died
One Incident of Walter Dean Myers is when he wrote the book 'Fallen Angel' because he wanted to honor his brother when he died in the Wietnam War.So Walter wanted to show his respect for him because he loved him so much. Myers worked really hard on the book to inspire his brother Sonny. As a teenager, Walter got into more trouble at school and he became disillusioned over his lot in life. When Myers dropped out of high school he wanted to write novels to teens to explain what had happened in his past, so his readers won't make the same mistakes he did.
Two effects that changed Myers' life were his moving to Harlem and the death of his brother on his first day in Vietnam. First his style of writing may have changed due to his moving to Harlem. He wrote about kids sharing parks with drug dealers(he did this since this is what he saw). He wrote mostly to show young readers that this wasn't the correct path to take. Another experience that might have inspired him to write may have been his brother's death. He felt that he should write a book about his brother's horrible experience in the army. He did this so that young adults wouln't have to go through his brother's expirience. This is what I think inspired him to write the way he does today.
Walter Dean Myers was influenced by all his experiences in his life. One example would be when he was in the army and his half brother got shot. In his honor he wrote a book for him called "Fallen Angel". That would be one of his incidents. Another experiences would be when his mother read to him as a child her True Romance book, then he knew that he was interested in books. He liked the books but, he mostly liked how his foster mother read to him. Also when the kids in his old school bullied him because of his speech impediment he got inspired to write a book called "Bad Boy".
One incident or experience in Myers life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is when he was a child and his father read him stories. Myer acknowledges it when he says, "when I was a child my father talked to me, told me absurdly wonderful stories. It was these stories that allowed me to release the balloon of my imagination."
Another incident or experience that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is when he was a child he read his mothers magazines. He said, "It was my mother, reading her magazines, that furthered that imagination, gave it order, defined it more in words than pictures." it shows that reading her magazines that defined his writing style and furthered his imagination helping his writing career.
Based on Myers' biography, an event that has influence or caused the way he writes is when he was younger and his foster mother taught him how to read using magazines and when his foster father told him stories about himself and his grandfather. The way his father told him stories had opened up his imagination and made him want to tell stories to others. When his mother was teaching Myers (as well as herself) to read, they couldn't afford books so she would read him stories she liked from her True Romance magazines. This had helped him further his imagination and had also started off his love of reading. These things influenced his writing career by inspiring him to open his mind to be creative.
Another event that could have influenced the way Myers writes is when his school teachers helped him through his speech impediment by finding him a speech therapist and having him practice readng and speaking outloud. By helping him with his speech impediment they also helped him realize his love of reding and writing. This may have influenced the way he writes by creating posibilities that others would not have seen in his stories to help create a better future for the characters in his books, therefore, inspiring his readers to find better opportunities for themselves.
Based on the readings, two experiences or incidents in Myers’ life that I think influenced his writing career and writing style, were his parents telling him stories and the problems he faced as a teenager. When he was young his mom used to read him romance novels. Plus his dad would tell him stories so that helped him a lot and it’s good to learn things at an early age to help him in the long run to develop his imagination. In Walters’s point of view it taught him how to be a good writer. As a result, he is a really good author.
When he was young, he had some problems during his early age of life. One of them was a speech problem, as a result of his speech problems he had a hard time saying certain words. Most of the words he couldn’t say, he wrote them into his poetry. He expressed his ideas and feelings into the poems he wrote. That is when and why he started writing poems.
Walter dean Myers may have been influenced by many things in his life. One major event that could have influenced him was his speech impediment. According to the story, his grade school teacher told him that since he had a speech impediment that if he wrote more often he would learn more words and his speech would develop better. While he was writing more and more each day he began to love writing. This is one of the reasons why he began writing books.
Another major event in his life was when Walters’s brother got shot. According to the story, Walter wrote a book about his brother & his life with his brother. It also included how his brother got shot and what had happened that day. The story Walter wrote about his brother is called “Fallen Angel “. That book was dedicated to his brother.
There are many terrible and inspiring experiences in Walter Dean Myers’ life, but two stand out the most. The first inspiring experience that caught my eye was that Walter Dean Myers was encouraged to write by his adoptive parents. In his story “Bridges” it says his mother would read him magazines and romance novels when he was small. It also says his dad would tell him stories passed down from his ancestors. His parents helped him by passing down there knowledge to him and introduced him to the world of books. Another inspiring part of Walters’s life was when he joined the army. In the interview I read, Walter joined the army at age 17. To me I think the army was Walter’s escape. He grew up in Harlem and it wasn’t the best place for a child to be raised. There were gangs, drugs, and so much violence. So he found his escape in the army. Being a part of the army helped Walter in the sense that he grew some backbone, became tougher, and no longer needed to be afraid or have to hide in his books. But he was able to write books on his experience in the army. These two experiences are inspiring and touched my heart. These two experience helped sculpture Walter into who he is today and encouraged him with his writing.
Two incidents in myers' life that influenced his writting career were that his adopted mom read to him. Another thing that might have influenced is that he always tried to write great stories so that he could get approval from his dad. As he mentions, "It was my mother, reading her magazines, that furthered that imagination, gave it order, defined it more in words than pictures." If his mom wouldn't have read to him he wouldn't have furthered his imagination. His writting became so great because of the effort he put into his stories, being the same effort he out into getting his father's approval. As Myers' says, "When i was a child my father talked to me, told me absurdly wonderful stories". It was those stories that he wrote to get his father's approval.
One thing that i think might have influenced Walter Dean Myer's writting carrer is that his mom used to read to him. This i think influenced him because he liked it when his foster mom read to him. This inspired him to write books. The seconed thing that think may have influenced Walter Dean myer's was he had a speech inpediment. This i think influenced him because people probably made fun of the way he talked. So instead, talking openly, he used writing as a way to express his thoughts.
One experience in Myers' life that may have inspired him to write is, his speech problem. Myers' speech impediment helped him because "he cultivated a habit of writing poetry and short stories and he also acquired in himself an early love of reading." Myers' love for reading inspired him to write more.
Another experience would be when his high school teacher found out that Myers was dropping out of school. She told him to "Keep on writing no matter what happens." Myers' then remembered those words and kept writing when he came home in the evenings after work. Those words kept him motivated throughout his life.
One experience or incident in Myers life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is Myers’ brother. Myers wrote the “Fallen Angels” because he wanted to honor his brother that had died during the Vietnam War. Myers worked really hard on the book for his brother. Myers really loved his brother so much.
Another experience or incident was that his foster parents were so loving and caring it strengthened him even when he had forgotten his source. It strengthened him to be a better person which helped him write about how hard his childhood life was when he was a poor child so he can be an inspiration to others who read his work.
One experience or incident in Myers’ life is that he was writing for various magazines and periodicals. The turning points in his career came when he won a contest run by the council on interracial books for children with his book “Where Does a Day Go”? In 1969. A second experience or incident is that the George Bruce Branch of the public library was his most treasured place. He thought that he could take some books home through the streets without too many incidents. When he started to check out more books, he started to love books at the same time. At 16 years old, he decided to quit school. He thought that getting a job was not bad, so he choose to write books, and as he began writing more and more books, he started to love it.
One action in Walter Dean Myers' life that may have influenced him is his foster mother reading "True Romances" to him. Instead of reading nursery stories to him,she read mature,love story books which contained an adult perspective which many people don't get when they are little. Walter Dean Myers seemed to have an adult like mind-set when he was little,which helped him appear to be "bright" to others and inspired him to write stories.
Another experience in Walter Dean Myers' life is him writing books to seek the final approval from his foster father.During Walter Dean Myers' childhood,he did not know that his foster father could not read. It was only when his father died that Walter realized that his father could not read. Walter also realized that he spent so many years writing books and trying to get his fathers confirmation that it was okay to be a writer,but it was all for a lost cause. This probably inspired Walter Dean Myers evenmore than before to do the thing he loved;write.
Two experiences or incidents that affected Myer's writing career and writing style is that he was often in trouble with the law."he haas been in many fights and has been to jail". Myer's experience in jail was a rough part of his life. Which then gave him the inspiration to write stories about these types of situations. An experience or incident that also affected Myer's writing career and writing style is that he grew up in Harlem."Harlem is a rough place". The qoute states that he grew up in a dangerouse place with gangs and drug dealers. Which then gives him the idea to write about people who are affected by it.
Based on the biography posted, two experiences that may have changed Walter Dean Myers writing style are his experiences with poverty. He wrote these stories from the eyes of his former self. He uses old experiences and event from the past to tell stories of teeneagers learning to deal with life and trying to find themselves to young men trying to deal with the strains and stress of serving the country in the armed forces.
He also uses the letters his brother sent him from the during the war in Vietnam. His brothers letters said he was absolutely tired of all the fighting and how it was boring monotounus work. Using these letters and his own perspective of the millitary to write the book "Fallen Angels" in honor of his brother who died during his first battleat war.
Another experience that may have changed Mr.Myers writing style is his mother reading him True Romance magazines and giving him comic books to read. He probably learned to read from his mother reading him something then him attempting to read it himself. It helped most likely, that the comics and books that he read were probably low-level and easy to read.
The first experience in Myer's life is when he had a speech impediment. With that he couldn't speak or pronounce words right. That led him to write poetry, short stories which led him also to love reading. With that he started writing more and more. With such passion for it he became more and more skilled for it. Maybe that’s why it became a passion which became his long life career.
Myer's second experience in life was when Myer's was a child his father talked to him, telling him stories. Those stories led him to develop his imagination for his own stories. Also the stories which his grandfather told him allowed him to take the world of his imagination and make it his own. His mother also read him magazines that open his imagination further. Those stories encouraged him to write his own stories and make him the writer he is today.
One experience or incident that may have influenced Myers’ writing career and writing style was the army. His brother died when he went to the army. After reading his brother’s letters he wrote a book about his brother’s experience in the army. This helped him to release his sadness in his book.
The second experience or incident that influenced Myers’ writing is that he loved that his mom would read to him. That influenced him because his mom made his imagination bigger. This also made him pay attention to the words on the page more than pictures. That’s when Myers’ knew he wanted to write books.
One experience in Walter Dean Myers life’ is that he went to the army at the age of seventeen. When he was in high school he dropped out at the age of sixteen and then went to the army when he was old enough. Walter Dean Myers' brother wanted to follow his footsteps and do the same, so he went to the army to. Walter Dean Myers brother died on his first day in Vietnam conflict. Myers served for three years and then went came back to New York City and got a low paying job.
The second experience in Walter Dean Myers’ life is that he loves to read and write. He discovered that he loved to read and write when he was in fifth grade. There teacher ask them to read a poem in front of the whole class. And when it came up to his turn he had a difficult time reading. Kids would laugh at him and when they did he would hit them. Well that’s all I can say for now have a good time adios.
One experience or incident that affected Myer's writing career and writing style is that he was often in trouble with the law.According to the biography"He has been in many fights and has been to jail". Myer's experience in jail was a rough part of his life. Which then gave him the inspiration to write stories of people who are stuck in these types of situations.Another experience or incident that affected Myer's writing career and writing style is that he grew up on the streets of Harlem. According to the biography he said "Harlem is arough place ".What Myers meant was that he grew up in a dangerous place with gangs and drug dealers. Which then gave him the idea to write stories about people who are involved with gangs and drugs.
I think there are many experiences and incidents that influenced Walter Dean Myers’ writing. One of them is that he spent most of his life in Harlem and saw many things. He saw things like drugs and gangs. This gave him content about what to write about. This allowed him to have more things to write about.
Another influence is that he stared writing at a very young age. This helped him by allowing him to write more as he got older, he got more practice. He started writing at a young age because of his speech difficulty. He had to find a way to express himself so he used short stories and poems. All of this helped him develop his writing.
One thing that influenced Walter’s writing career was his childhood, when Walter was younger his mother would read her magazines to Walter and Walter started to read them by himself. So, another reason was there were not a lot of black authors when he was a child, and he wanted to change that. So he started to write and publish his own books.
Another thing that influenced Walter was his half brother. Sadly, his half brother died in the Vietnam War. This inspired Walter to keep writing and never give up. This also inspired a book about his brother. This is what inspired Walter Dean Myers to write, and publish his own books, stories, and poems.
The experiences that influenced Walter Dean Myers are when he was writing at a young age. During that time Walter had years of practice to perfect his writing. His teachers are another reason why Walter kept on writing. By telling him that he should keep on writing because of how good he was. He also had problems with his speech. He had difficulty talking to people so he expressed himself with his writing. Walter`s mother also helped influence him by reading stories to him when he was little. The stories helped him develop his imagination of writing stories and poems.
Two experiences or incidents that cause Walter to write a lot of stories. First his is his foster mom Florence read him a bunch of magazine and his dad telling him stories a lot of cool stories. Myers said it made him have creativity. Walter father always talking to him and he told him stories. He said it was his stories that he told him. It let Walter dean release his wild imaginations. And he said “it was my mother reading me her wonderful magazines that furthers his imaginations”.
Two things that influenced or affected his writing was that he writes mostly for young people because he says “The young adult and middle grade periods of my life were so vivid and in looking back, so influential in how I would live the rest of my life.” That affected how he writes by writing about his childhood instead of something else like fantasy. Walter also wrote a book named “Monster.” It is about a teen on trial for an accomplice to murder, based on his experience of going to jail. He wrote this to teach a lesson to not follow in his footsteps of when he was a kid.
Another thing that influenced his writing is that his mother would read love poems to him when he was a child. This influenced his writing because he writes about love and he also writes poems.
One of Walter Dean Myer’s experiences was going to the army. As he was in the army he had a lot of experiences like shootings and the adventure. He also saw his friends dying and it was really hard for him to see that. This could be something he could write about. One of Walter Dean Myers incidents was dropping out of high school. When he dropped out of high school he couldn’t get a scholarship and go to college. That is one reason why he went to the army. If he hadn’t dropped out of high school he would of started writing way sooner
Two incidents or experience's that may have influenecd myers writng style is his step mother taught him how to read and write by reading magaazines to him.
Another reason that may have caused myers to write the way he does is his high school teacher she influenced him to keep on writng no matter what (''it what you she said'') so he did and now we know him as a great author.
Two experiences or incidences that cause Walter to influenced his writing career and writing style.Was one when he was young his mother taught him how to read and how to write.He started to read more books and he started to understand more words.later He began to write more and to read magazines with his mother.He sat next to his mother as she read these magazines and books so that's probably what interested him to read more stories and to write more stories. Another influence is that in school his teacher,told him to keep on writing and to never stop doing what you like the most.He really couldn't talk to anyone because of his speech difficulty so he expressed himself by writing.Those teachers just kept on encouraging him to keep on writing and to do what he loves.look at him now he still has great books and he still is writing.
Two experiences or incidents in Myers’ life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style. Are his step mother she taught him how to read and write by reading a bunch of magazines to him which made have more creativity and imagination.which also makes his books more exhilarating.
Another thing that may have influenced myers writing career and writing style. Is his high school teacher she knew he was going to drop out of high school to join the army with his brother so she told him to keep on writing no matter what happened. So he did and now we know as a great award winning author of marvelous books.
The first experience in Walter Dean Myers life that may have influenced him to write is his father telling him stories when he was a child. He said they were absurdly wonderful stories. Those were the stories that allowed him to release the balloon of imagination, and let it soar. His fathers, and grandfathers’ stories, gave him permission to write stories. The second experience hat may have influenced him to write was his high school teacher. He wrote well and she recognized it, but she also knew he was going to drop out. She advised him to keep on writing, no matter what happened.
One experience that may have influenced Walter dean myers' career and writing style is that he had a speech impediment,although he had corrected it,he was laughed at and teased as a child for it and lashed out on multiple occasions.
Another incident is that both of his parents and his brother died , Witch is never a good thing.I have only named 2 reasons, but there are more.
Two experiences or incidents that may have influenced Myer's writing career and writing style are his mom reading him magazines and his dad telling him stories. Myers said that it expanded his creativity. He said, "When I was a child my father talked to me, told me absurdly wonderful stories. It was these stories that allowed me to release the balloon of my imagination, and to let it soar." He also said, "It was my mother, reading her magazines, that furthered that imagination." It was his mother's readings and his father's stories that influenced his writing career and his writing style.
ReplyDeleteBased on the biography posted and other readings we have done in class, the two experiences or incidents in Myer's life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style are, his mother reading to him, his father telling him stories, and the death of his brother. I believe these experiences influenced him because if his mother had not read magazines with him, he wouldn't know how to read or write. As it states in the autobiography we read to him "Florence had taught herself to read, and then she taught her adopted son by letting him read the true romance magazines stories she liked". So by this phrase you can tell by teaching herself to read she influenced her son to read. And if his dad never told him stories, he never would have been introduced to different genres or inspirational stories or open his imagination. I also believe that the death of his brother influenced him because, he would not have gone to war and experience it himself and write a book in his brother's honor.
ReplyDeleteThere are experiences and incidents in Myers' life that influenced his writing career. One experience as a boy that happened is, that he moved to Harlem. At that time Harlem was a bad place to live in. Myers saw gangs, drugseelers, and other things when he was living in Harlem. Living in Harlem affected Myers writing because he would write about what was going on around him, in Harlem.
ReplyDeleteThe second experiences is, in Myers teen years he started to get frustrated about how to pay for college.(At that time Myers had a job) When Myers got frustrated he wouldn't get his work done for school. He would write in his jounal about his day. Then he dropped out of school,he wrote a story relating to want happened to him at school. The book is called "Bad Boys".
in the passage, one of the things that inspired his life is the teacher. Who said writing is what you do and dont do anything else. myers followed that when he moved to new york. and with that in mind he started his REAL career.
ReplyDeleteThe death of his parents and his brother were very hard on myers. He might have wrote books to keep there memories alive.His mother died when he was two, his brother died when he was in the army, and his dad died when he started writing books.This impacted walter very hard.but he just went on with life.
One experience or incident that influenced Walter Dean Myers to write, was that as a child, he was often laughed at and teased by his class mates because of his speech impediment and he would lash out. At home he wasn't afraid to read, and he read for hours. Another experience, was that his father would read him stories when he was younger and that encouriged him to write his own stories because it developed his own imagination.
ReplyDeleteMany things influenced Walter Dean Myers writing. One experience was his foster mom reading to him at an early age. As a result, she taught him how to read. It also gave him the skills he has today as a writer.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, his foster parents were so loving and caring it strengthened him even when he had forgotten his source. It strengthened him to be a better person, which helped him write about how hard his childhood life was when he was a poor child. As a result, he became an inspiration to others who read his work.
Two experience or incidents in Myer's life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style are the way he was raised and his brother's death. As a child, "his father talked to him and told him absurdly wonderful stories that allowed him to release ballons of his imagination".
ReplyDeleteAnother incident that may have influenced him to write is when his half- brother Wayne was killed in Vietnam. He wrote a tribute for essence magazine. He wrote because he was sad because his brother died and he wanted to thank his brother for saving the country.
One experience or incident in Myers' life that have influenced his writing career and writing style is, first, his brother dying. Walter and his brother were very close. Walter and his brother loved each other so much. He even wrote a book called "Fallen Angels" in honor of his bother dying in the army.
ReplyDeleteAnother experience or incident in Myers' life that influenced his writing career and writing style is that he moved to Harlem. He moved near the poet Langston Hughes. When he moved to Harlem there were lots of gangs and bad people. There was also bad fighting on the streets. As a result from living in Harlem most of his books are about young teens and drugs in Harlem. He also writes to teach people a lesson and show them not to do wrong.
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One experience or incident in Myers' life that have influenced his writing career and writing style is that Myers' teacher realized he could read aloud in class with little difficulty if he was reading words that he had written himself. Myers had a speech impediment and was scared that his classmates might tease him.
ReplyDeleteAnother experience or incident in Myers' life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is that his half-brother died when he was in the army. Myers wrote aboout his brother because he was sad that his brother died and he wrote about how his brother served the country.
Besed on the biography posted and other readings in class, one incident that might have influenced his writing style was his mother(foster mother) started reading to him when he was young. She read about love and romance. He also started reading and writing. Myers wrote about love and fiction in his books. He started improving his education by going to the libary and school.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, Myers lived in a very bad city. Therfore he has seen people use and sell drugs, and a lot of gang wars. As a result, his books were about drugs and other things he has seen in his life. For example his book "The Beast" he writes about the narrators girlfriend having a drug addiction. Also how it eats away her hopes, dreams, and future.
Myers saw how girls and boys used drugs and how they were messing their lives up. Thats what influenced him to write a novel about teenagers who use drugs and what goes on in their lives. One such novel is called "Monster".
ReplyDeleteMyers wanted to let out his feelings probably about not having his mother with him. He wrote a story about a kid who didnt't have his parents with him and how sad the kid felt.
Another exprience was when his step brother died in the army. To honor him, he wrote a novel called "The Fallen Angel".
One experience or incident in Myers’ life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is first, when he went to the library he feel in love with books. All those books he read gave him an imagination that helped him write books. Those books gave him ideas. Ideas which would help him write.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, since his brother’s death Myers got very sad. So he wrote a book called "Fallen Angels" to honor his brother's memory. His brother got shot and killed in Vietnam.
One experience that may have influenced his writing style is how he grew up with drugs in Harlem. Myers saw how boys and girls used drugs to feel better about themselves and how they are messing up their lives. That helped influence him to write a novel about teenagers using drugs. He also wrote it to keep other teens away from drugs.
ReplyDeleteAnother experience that may have influenced his writing style is when he heard about his brother’s death in Vietnam on the first day he was there. This influenced Myers because he felt that he had to pay his respects to him by writing a novel about him.
When Walter Dean Myers was a young boy,he couldn't read or write so then his stepmom taught him by reading books to him. When he would read a book he would pay attention to the words instead of the pictures.Reading and writing inspired him to write his own books. Later on,he wrote books about teenagers' lives for example he would write books about teens dropping out of school and making bad decisions.
ReplyDeleteWhen Myers' half brother went in the army he went to war with Vietnam.On the first day there,his brother got shot. Myers was depressed so he wrote a book to honor him. The book that Myers wrote was called "The Fallen Angel".
Experiences and incidents that may have influenced Walter Dean Myer's writing are, first Walter was born in the middle of the Great Depression, between 1929 and 1941.In those days Blacks and Hispanics were poor, had no resources, and had no life necessities, so that experience gave him more inspiration to write about the poverty of Black and Hispanics.
ReplyDeleteSecondly Myer's moved to Harlem when he was a child where he would see children playing in the park with drug dealers, and gangs. That experience made him more to write about Black and Hispanics people so that when they read a book of his, they would see how children suffer and that children would stay out of drug dealing and gangs.Thirdly Myer's little brother died in combat on his first day in the army and Myer's wrote Fallen Angels for him. The reason he wrote this is to explain the life of his brother and how he died
One Incident of Walter Dean Myers is when he wrote the book 'Fallen Angel' because he wanted to honor his brother when he died in the Wietnam War.So Walter wanted to show his respect for him because he loved him so much. Myers worked really hard on the book to inspire his brother Sonny.
ReplyDeleteAs a teenager, Walter got into more trouble at school and he became disillusioned over his lot in life. When Myers dropped out of high school he wanted to write novels to teens to explain what had happened in his past, so his readers won't make the same mistakes he did.
Two effects that changed Myers' life were his moving to Harlem and the death of his brother on his first day in Vietnam. First his style of writing may have changed due to his moving to Harlem. He wrote about kids sharing parks with drug dealers(he did this since this is what he saw). He wrote mostly to show young readers that this wasn't the correct path to take.
ReplyDeleteAnother experience that might have inspired him to write may have been his brother's death. He felt that he should write a book about his brother's horrible experience in the army. He did this so that young adults wouln't have to go through his brother's expirience. This is what I think inspired him to write the way he does today.
Walter Dean Myers was influenced by all his experiences in his life. One example would be when he was in the army and his half brother got shot. In his honor he wrote a book for him called "Fallen Angel". That would be one of his incidents. Another experiences would be when his mother read to him as a child her True Romance book, then he knew that he was interested in books. He liked the books but, he mostly liked how his foster mother read to him. Also when the kids in his old school bullied him because of his speech impediment he got inspired to write a book called "Bad Boy".
ReplyDeleteOne incident or experience in Myers life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is when he was a child and his father read him stories. Myer acknowledges it when he says, "when I was a child my father talked to me, told me absurdly wonderful stories. It was these stories that allowed me to release the balloon of my imagination."
ReplyDeleteAnother incident or experience that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is when he was a child he read his mothers magazines. He said, "It was my mother, reading her magazines, that furthered that imagination, gave it order, defined it more in words than pictures." it shows that reading her magazines that defined his writing style and furthered his imagination helping his writing career.
Based on Myers' biography, an event that has influence or caused the way he writes is when he was younger and his foster mother taught him how to read using magazines and when his foster father told him stories about himself and his grandfather. The way his father told him stories had opened up his imagination and made him want to tell stories to others. When his mother was teaching Myers (as well as herself) to read, they couldn't afford books so she would read him stories she liked from her True Romance magazines. This had helped him further his imagination and had also started off his love of reading. These things influenced his writing career by inspiring him to open his mind to be creative.
ReplyDeleteAnother event that could have influenced the way Myers writes is when his school teachers helped him through his speech impediment by finding him a speech therapist and having him practice readng and speaking outloud. By helping him with his speech impediment they also helped him realize his love of reding and writing. This may have influenced the way he writes by creating posibilities that others would not have seen in his stories to help create a better future for the characters in his books, therefore, inspiring his readers to find better opportunities for themselves.
Based on the readings, two experiences or incidents in Myers’ life that I think influenced his writing career and writing style, were his parents telling him stories and the problems he faced as a teenager. When he was young his mom used to read him romance novels. Plus his dad would tell him stories so that helped him a lot and it’s good to learn things at an early age to help him in the long run to develop his imagination. In Walters’s point of view it taught him how to be a good writer. As a result, he is a really good author.
ReplyDeleteWhen he was young, he had some problems during his early age of life. One of them was a speech problem, as a result of his speech problems he had a hard time saying certain words. Most of the words he couldn’t say, he wrote them into his poetry. He expressed his ideas and feelings into the poems he wrote. That is when and why he started writing poems.
Walter dean Myers may have been influenced by many things in his life. One major event that could have influenced him was his speech impediment. According to the story, his grade school teacher told him that since he had a speech impediment that if he wrote more often he would learn more words and his speech would develop better. While he was writing more and more each day he began to love writing. This is one of the reasons why he began writing books.
ReplyDeleteAnother major event in his life was when Walters’s brother got shot. According to the story, Walter wrote a book about his brother & his life with his brother. It also included how his brother got shot and what had happened that day. The story Walter wrote about his brother is called “Fallen Angel “. That book was dedicated to his brother.
There are many terrible and inspiring experiences in Walter Dean Myers’ life, but two stand out the most. The first inspiring experience that caught my eye was that Walter Dean Myers was encouraged to write by his adoptive parents. In his story “Bridges” it says his mother would read him magazines and romance novels when he was small. It also says his dad would tell him stories passed down from his ancestors. His parents helped him by passing down there knowledge to him and introduced him to the world of books.
ReplyDeleteAnother inspiring part of Walters’s life was when he joined the army. In the interview I read, Walter joined the army at age 17. To me I think the army was Walter’s escape. He grew up in Harlem and it wasn’t the best place for a child to be raised. There were gangs, drugs, and so much violence. So he found his escape in the army. Being a part of the army helped Walter in the sense that he grew some backbone, became tougher, and no longer needed to be afraid or have to hide in his books. But he was able to write books on his experience in the army. These two experiences are inspiring and touched my heart. These two experience helped sculpture Walter into who he is today and encouraged him with his writing.
Two incidents in myers' life that influenced his writting career were that his adopted mom read to him. Another thing that might have influenced is that he always tried to write great stories so that he could get approval from his dad. As he mentions, "It was my mother, reading her magazines, that furthered that imagination, gave it order, defined it more in words than pictures." If his mom wouldn't have read to him he wouldn't have furthered his imagination.
ReplyDeleteHis writting became so great because of the effort he put into his stories, being the same effort he out into getting his father's approval. As Myers' says, "When i was a child my father talked to me, told me absurdly wonderful stories". It was those stories that he wrote to get his father's approval.
One thing that i think might have influenced Walter Dean Myer's writting carrer is that his mom used to read to him. This i think influenced him because he liked it when his foster mom read to him. This inspired him to write books. The seconed thing that think may have influenced Walter Dean myer's was he had a speech inpediment. This i think influenced him because people probably made fun of the way he talked. So instead, talking openly, he used writing as a way to express his thoughts.
ReplyDeleteOne experience in Myers' life that may have inspired him to write is, his speech problem. Myers' speech impediment helped him because "he cultivated a habit of writing poetry and short stories and he also acquired in himself an early love of reading." Myers' love for reading inspired him to write more.
ReplyDeleteAnother experience would be when his high school teacher found out that Myers was dropping out of school. She told him to "Keep on writing no matter what happens." Myers' then remembered those words and kept writing when he came home in the evenings after work. Those words kept him motivated throughout his life.
One experience or incident in Myers life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style is Myers’ brother. Myers wrote the “Fallen Angels” because he wanted to honor his brother that had died during the Vietnam War. Myers worked really hard on the book for his brother. Myers really loved his brother so much.
ReplyDeleteAnother experience or incident was that his foster parents were so loving and caring it strengthened him even when he had forgotten his source. It strengthened him to be a better person which helped him write about how hard his childhood life was when he was a poor child so he can be an inspiration to others who read his work.
One experience or incident in Myers’ life is that he was writing for various magazines and periodicals. The turning points in his career came when he won a contest run by the council on interracial books for children with his book “Where Does a Day Go”? In 1969.
ReplyDeleteA second experience or incident is that the George Bruce Branch of the public library was his most treasured place. He thought that he could take some books home through the streets without too many incidents. When he started to check out more books, he started to love books at the same time. At 16 years old, he decided to quit school. He thought that getting a job was not bad, so he choose to write books, and as he began writing more and more books, he started to love it.
One action in Walter Dean Myers' life that may have influenced him is his foster mother reading "True Romances" to him. Instead of reading nursery stories to him,she read mature,love story books which contained an adult perspective which many people don't get when they are little. Walter Dean Myers seemed to have an adult like mind-set when he was little,which helped him appear to be "bright" to others and inspired him to write stories.
ReplyDeleteAnother experience in Walter Dean Myers' life is him writing books to seek the final approval from his foster father.During Walter Dean Myers' childhood,he did not know that his foster father could not read. It was only when his father died that Walter realized that his father could not read. Walter also realized that he spent so many years writing books and trying to get his fathers confirmation that it was okay to be a writer,but it was all for a lost cause. This probably inspired Walter Dean Myers evenmore than before to do the thing he loved;write.
Two experiences or incidents that affected Myer's writing career and writing style is that he was often in trouble with the law."he haas been in many fights and has been to jail". Myer's experience in jail was a rough part of his life. Which then gave him the inspiration to write stories about these types of situations. An experience or incident that also affected Myer's writing career and writing style is that he grew up in Harlem."Harlem is a rough place". The qoute states that he grew up in a dangerouse place with gangs and drug dealers. Which then gives him the idea to write about people who are affected by it.
ReplyDeleteBased on the biography posted, two experiences that may have changed Walter Dean Myers writing style are his experiences with poverty. He wrote these stories from the eyes of his former self. He uses old experiences and event from the past to tell stories of teeneagers learning to deal with life and trying to find themselves to young men trying to deal with the strains and stress of serving the country in the armed forces.
ReplyDeleteHe also uses the letters his brother sent him from the during the war in Vietnam. His brothers letters said he was absolutely tired of all the fighting and how it was boring monotounus work. Using these letters and his own perspective of the millitary to write the book "Fallen Angels" in honor of his brother who died during his first battleat war.
Another experience that may have changed Mr.Myers writing style is his mother reading him True Romance magazines and giving him comic books to read. He probably learned to read from his mother reading him something then him attempting to read it himself. It helped most likely, that the comics and books that he read were probably low-level and easy to read.
The first experience in Myer's life is when he had a speech impediment. With that he couldn't speak or pronounce words right. That led him to write poetry, short stories which led him also to love reading. With that he started writing more and more. With such passion for it he became more and more skilled for it. Maybe that’s why it became a passion which became his long life career.
ReplyDeleteMyer's second experience in life was when Myer's was a child his father talked to him, telling him stories. Those stories led him to develop his imagination for his own stories. Also the stories which his grandfather told him allowed him to take the world of his imagination and make it his own. His mother also read him magazines that open his imagination further. Those stories encouraged him to write his own stories and make him the writer he is today.
One experience or incident that may have influenced Myers’ writing career and writing style was the army. His brother died when he went to the army. After reading his brother’s letters he wrote a book about his brother’s experience in the army. This helped him to release his sadness in his book.
ReplyDeleteThe second experience or incident that influenced Myers’ writing is that he loved that his mom would read to him. That influenced him because his mom made his imagination bigger. This also made him pay attention to the words on the page more than pictures. That’s when Myers’ knew he wanted to write books.
One experience in Walter Dean Myers life’ is that he went to the army at the age of seventeen. When he was in high school he dropped out at the age of sixteen and then went to the army when he was old enough. Walter Dean Myers' brother wanted to follow his footsteps and do the same, so he went to the army to. Walter Dean Myers brother died on his first day in Vietnam conflict. Myers served for three years and then went came back to New York City and got a low paying job.
ReplyDeleteThe second experience in Walter Dean Myers’ life is that he loves to read and write. He discovered that he loved to read and write when he was in fifth grade. There teacher ask them to read a poem in front of the whole class. And when it came up to his turn he had a difficult time reading. Kids would laugh at him and when they did he would hit them. Well that’s all I can say for now have a good time adios.
One experience or incident that affected Myer's writing career and writing style is that he was often in trouble with the law.According to the biography"He has been in many fights and has been to jail". Myer's experience in jail was a rough part of his life. Which then gave him the inspiration to write stories of people who are stuck in these types of situations.Another experience or incident that affected Myer's writing career and writing style is that he grew up on the streets of Harlem. According to the biography he said "Harlem is arough place ".What Myers meant was that he grew up in a dangerous place with gangs and drug dealers. Which then gave him the idea to write stories about people who are involved with gangs and drugs.
ReplyDeleteI think there are many experiences and incidents that influenced Walter Dean Myers’ writing. One of them is that he spent most of his life in Harlem and saw many things. He saw things like drugs and gangs. This gave him content about what to write about. This allowed him to have more things to write about.
ReplyDeleteAnother influence is that he stared writing at a very young age. This helped him by allowing him to write more as he got older, he got more practice. He started writing at a young age because of his speech difficulty. He had to find a way to express himself so he used short stories and poems. All of this helped him develop his writing.
One thing that influenced Walter’s writing career was his childhood, when Walter was younger his mother would read her magazines to Walter and Walter started to read them by himself. So, another reason was there were not a lot of black authors when he was a child, and he wanted to change that. So he started to write and publish his own books.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing that influenced Walter was his half brother. Sadly, his half brother died in the Vietnam War. This inspired Walter to keep writing and never give up. This also inspired a book about his brother. This is what inspired Walter Dean Myers to write, and publish his own books, stories, and poems.
The experiences that influenced Walter Dean Myers are when he was writing at a young age. During that time Walter had years of practice to perfect his writing. His teachers are another reason why Walter kept on writing. By telling him that he should keep on writing because of how good he was. He also had problems with his speech. He had difficulty talking to people so he expressed himself with his writing.
ReplyDeleteWalter`s mother also helped influence him by reading stories to him when he was little. The stories helped him develop his imagination of writing stories and poems.
Two experiences or incidents that cause Walter to write a lot of stories. First his is his foster mom Florence read him a bunch of magazine and his dad telling him stories a lot of cool stories. Myers said it made him have creativity. Walter father always talking to him and he told him stories. He said it was his stories that he told him. It let Walter dean release his wild imaginations. And he said “it was my mother reading me her wonderful magazines that furthers his imaginations”.
ReplyDeleteTwo things that influenced or affected his writing was that he writes mostly for young people because he says “The young adult and middle grade periods of my life were so vivid and in looking back, so influential in how I would live the rest of my life.” That affected how he writes by writing about his childhood instead of something else like fantasy. Walter also wrote a book named “Monster.” It is about a teen on trial for an accomplice to murder, based on his experience of going to jail. He wrote this to teach a lesson to not follow in his footsteps of when he was a kid.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing that influenced his writing is that his mother would read love poems to him when he was a child. This influenced his writing because he writes about love and he also writes poems.
One of Walter Dean Myer’s experiences was going to the army. As he was in the army he had a lot of experiences like shootings and the adventure. He also saw his friends dying and it was really hard for him to see that. This could be something he could write about.
ReplyDeleteOne of Walter Dean Myers incidents was dropping out of high school. When he dropped out of high school he couldn’t get a scholarship and go to college. That is one reason why he went to the army. If he hadn’t dropped out of high school he would of started writing way sooner
Two incidents or experience's that may have influenecd myers writng style is his step mother taught him how to read and write by reading magaazines to him.
ReplyDeleteAnother reason that may have caused myers to write the way he does is his high school teacher she influenced him to keep on writng no matter what (''it what you she said'') so he did and now we know him as a great author.
Two experiences or incidences that cause Walter to influenced his writing career and writing style.Was one when he was young his mother taught him how to read and how to write.He started to read more books and he started to understand more words.later He began to write more and to read magazines with his mother.He sat next to his mother as she read these magazines and books so that's probably what interested him to read more stories and to write more stories.
ReplyDeleteAnother influence is that in school his teacher,told him to keep on writing and to never stop doing what you like the most.He really couldn't talk to anyone because of his speech difficulty so he expressed himself by writing.Those teachers just kept on encouraging him to keep on writing and to do what he loves.look at him now he still has great books and he still is writing.
Two experiences or incidents in Myers’ life that may have influenced his writing career and writing style. Are his step mother she taught him how to read and write by reading a bunch of magazines to him which made have more creativity and imagination.which also makes his books more exhilarating.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing that may have influenced myers writing career and writing style. Is his high school teacher she knew he was going to drop out of high school to join the army with his brother so she told him to keep on writing no matter what happened. So he did and now we know as a great award winning author of marvelous books.
The first experience in Walter Dean Myers life that may have influenced him to write is his father telling him stories when he was a child. He said they were absurdly wonderful stories. Those were the stories that allowed him to release the balloon of imagination, and let it soar. His fathers, and grandfathers’ stories, gave him permission to write stories.
ReplyDeleteThe second experience hat may have influenced him to write was his high school teacher. He wrote well and she recognized it, but she also knew he was going to drop out. She advised him to keep on writing, no matter what happened.
One experience that may have influenced Walter dean myers' career and writing style is that he had a speech impediment,although he had corrected it,he was laughed at and teased as a child for it and lashed out on multiple occasions.
ReplyDeleteAnother incident is that both of his parents and his brother died , Witch is never a good thing.I have only named 2 reasons, but there are more.