In The Young Landlords, the main character telling the story is Paul Williams. Using details from the first chapter, describe three things you already...

The reader
finds out a lot about Paul Williams in the first chapter of the novel The Young
Landlords. In the first few paragraphs, the reader finds out Paul is quite a brave
person (although maybe a little reckless). At thirteen, two years before, he approached the
school bully and told him to stop bothering other people. He says the school bully looked at him
like a martian for a second and then hit him.

The next thing we find out
about Paul is that two years later, at the age of fifteen (the time the story is set), he forms
what he calls an action group with his friends Gloria, Dean, Omar, and Jeanie. Their first task
is to sort out a building called the Stratford building.

At this point the
reader finds out that Paul lives near 122nd street in Harlem New York. His friend Omar talks
about the oppressive conditions that the Stratford building is contributing to, so it's likely
that he lives in a poor area.

When they approach the owner of the Stratford
building, the reader finds out that Paul is not only fifteen, but he is the oldest in his group.
He was born in March while the other were born in either the summer or the
fall.