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Street, the collection of pitiful stories by Walter Dean Myers. (From Amazon. Com re mess) Walter Dean Emerys parole of interconnected short stories is a angelic and sour mix of the comedy and cataclysm of the human condition, played out once against the desktop of the Harlem neighborhood that is centered around forty-fifth Street Myers frankly discusses the consequences of violence, drive-boys and gang war through his articulate characters, moreover tempers these episodes with much(prenominal) a love of his fictional biotic union that every character shines wrought with the go for and strength off survivor.Changing his point of view from teen to adult and back again through each vignette, Myers successfully builds a bridge of understanding between adolescents and adults that give help each group bump understand the problems of the other. It beautifully illustrates the good that shtup come out of a community that stands to fither. Summary An unnamed narrator tells the account statement of brownie, one of the narrators booster units and a resident of forty-fifth Street. Monkeys bookishness sets him apart from many of his peers, as does his illnesses to interject with the Tigris gang, which is trying to take over the neighborhood.When Monkey prevents one of the Lady Tigris from attacking his friend Peaches with a knife, the Tigris set out to get revenge. Monkey appears to accept the Tigris challenge to sputter, but when he arrives at the scene he shocks everyone, his friends included, by taking a touch of non-violence. Monkey Is injured in the fight and its aftermath, but the narrator discovers that Monkey has make this to prove a point, which teaches the narrator roughly Important lessons about courage and community.