The baddest dog in Harlem is a fiction text written by the American writer, Walter Dean Myers best known for young adult literature. Walter was raised in the African-American neighborhood, Harlem. The text I’m about to analyze is a short story which was published in “145th Street: Short Stories” which is many different kind of short stories, published in 2001.
The Baddest Dog in Harlem takes place in Harlem specifically 145th street, since the early 1900, Harlem has bin known for its African-American residential and also its high unemployment rate and crime rate. The author exhibits Harlem as a very uncomfortable place to be. The story starts with the men who are discussing which is the best boxer, and after some time, the police officer comes and asks them how long they’ve bin there, they seem very relaxed and as reader we get the feeling that it’s a ordinary day. At page 17, Line 19, Tommy says to the police officers, who is crouching, that they are moving on down the street, even if the police officers are crouching and as Walter describes it “as if they were expecting some heavy shooting”.
The language in the easy to read. And it’s astonishing me that there’s not more slang in the text than there is. Only some places in the text where the lines are shorten for example ‘fore at Page 18, line 4. The language is nor formal in any kind, and walter understand to relate it to reality, if it was a formal language in a neighborhood like Harlem, it will seem very unrealistic to us, because of what view people got at Harlem.
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