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Discussion Questions

Bad Boy Brawly Brown

1.) Do you feel that Easy is having dreams about Mouse because he is going through “withdrawal”of his old life, while trying to begin a new phase of his life? 

2.) What is the “fever”burning in Easy? Is it physical or mental? 

3.) Do you feel that Easy is helping John and Alva because he feels he let down Mouse? 

4.) Easy sees Brawly at the Urban Revolutionary Party’s meeting and even talks to him once at Clarissa’s apartment, and for the most part Brawly seems okay. So why doesn’t Easy get back to “the life he promised himself”? 

5.) Do the events of Easy’s life combined with those of Brawly’s life have an influence on his decision to let Jesus leave school? 

6.) Does Easy have a chance at a “normal” life? What about Chapman? Brawly? 

7.) In the end, Easy does listento Mouse and saves Brawly. Do you think this helps with his grief process as well as his guilt? 

8.) Easy finds $6,000 at Henry Strong’s hideout. Do you think he should have kept it or given it to the Urban Revolutionary Party? 

9.) Why do you think Easy didn’t tell Conrad, Xavier, Clarissa and Tina about Henry Strong’s betrayal? Do you think it would have made any differencein their plans? 

10.) Walter Mosley has a notoriously descriptive writing style. How and to what extent did this make you feel like you were in 1960s Los Angeles? 

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Bad Boy Brawly Brown
by Walter Mosley

  • Publication Date: July 2, 2002
  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown
  • ISBN-10: 0316073016
  • ISBN-13: 9780316073011