SuitabookWhat They Found
Walter Dean Myers
- Reading
- Read one story at a time, pausing between them to notice how each treats love or family. If the wartime or illness-related situations feel weighty, take a break and talk through what stood out.
- Themes
- Love and family responsibility: The stories explore different aspects of love, including a father trying to help establish a family business and a mother’s love for her child. The collection centres love and family relationships, but the examples alone do not establish whether particular choices are endorsed or criticised.
- Wartime danger: Curtis finds love in Iraq while struggling to stay alive in a war he does not want to fight. The situation presents war as a threat to survival, but this detail does not establish the story’s wider stance or how the danger is depicted.
- Worth knowing
- Some stories involve a dying father and a young man trying to stay alive in a war he does not want to fight. These situations bring illness, mortality and wartime danger into the collection.