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Street, the collection of short stories by Walter doyen Myers. (From Amazon. Com review) Walter Dean Emerys book of interconnected short stories is a sweet and sour mixed bag of the comedy and tragedy of the human condition, played break through against the backdrop of the Harlem part that is centered around 45th Street Myers frankly discusses the consequences of violence, drive-boys and gang struggle through with(predicate) his articulate characters, but tempers these episodes with such a love of his sham community that every character shines wrought with the hope and strength dour 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 leave help each group better understand the problems of the other. It beautifully illustrates the smashing that can come out of a community that stands together. Summary An unidentified narrator tells the story of pu tter around, one of the narrators friends and a resident of 45th Street. potters bookishness sets him by from many of his peers, as does his illnesses to interfere 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 fight, but when he arrives at the scene he shocks everyone, his friends included, by taking a position of non-violence. Monkey Is injured in the fight and its aftermath, but the narrator discovers that Monkey has do this to prove a point, which teaches the narrator some Important lessons about heroism and community.