Monster By Walter Dean Myers Essay

Steve in the book “Monster” is the main character. The whole book is about his trial for murder of a drugstore owner. Steve is a 16-year-old boy who is caught up in a mess. He lives in a bad neighborhood and is around violence his whole life.

Amanda Knoxx lied, saying that the Congolese owner of a bar where she used to work murdered her roommate. Emmit Till 14, was killed in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly flirting with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, 21. He was dragged from his great-uncle’s house and taken to a barn, where he was beaten had one eye gouged out before being shot in the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a 70-lbs cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Charles Stuart blamed a black man for killing his pregnant wife when in fact he did. Susan Smith’s said that she had been carjacked in South Carolina by a Black man who drove away with her two young sons — ages 3 years old and 14 months — still in the car. She confessed to letting her 1990 Mazda Protegé roll into nearby John D. Long Lake, drowning them inside. I could go on, but that's not why I am

Judgment is a fundamental function of the human brain. On a daily basis one judges their peers for their actions, whether it be good or bad. In the novel, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, a young boy named Steve Harmon is put on trial for felony murder; he shares his experiences of what is going on throughout the case and how he is being perceived by his peers. The jury has to make a decision, marking Harmon guilty or not guilty. The jury must make a judgment about him, about who he is. Evidently, it is revealed that judgment is determined by one’s traits, actions, and appearance.

Reality sometimes appears like it is a fulfillment of a dream. In Monster by Dean Myers, various characters portray the theme of Dream and reality. The story demonstrates what is like to be in a courtroom, jail and various struggles one family faces due to the action of judicial system. Dean Myers demonstrates more realistic picture of what it means to be in jail. Sometimes to be behind bars it is to be far from being in a state of freedom. We see the dream and reality through Steve Harmon, who is the main character, who is involved in robbery of drug store but not in the actual killing of the owner of the store. He faces a possible life imprisonment for his participation in the crime, on the other hand two of the robbers possibly face a death

In “The Monster” by Walter Dean Myers, there are many things in prison that most affects Steve Harmon which can cause him to change. First, within the prison, is said that all they talk about is drugs and sex. This is important because it affects Steve because he has nothing to do with that and now knows what it is like which could change him to be like that. Also, in that terrible place they call jail there are many fights that occur in it. For example, Steve Harmon mentions in the story that someone was hit in the face with a tray during breakfast. This shows that Steve hates fights and does not want to be in any. This affects him because of he in jail with a bunch of grown men which start the fights. Finally, prison is a place where Steve

In the book Monster written by Walter Dean Myers the main character Steve Harmon is guilty for the trial for the murder of Mr. Nesbitt. The book starts with Steve Harmon and criminals that Steve was hanging with these criminals include James King, Richard Evans, and Osvaldo Cruz. The plan was that Steve and Cruz were the lookouts Steve was to go in and see if cops were in there and Cruz was to make sure no cops walk in. James King and Richard Evans were to go in but in the end James King shot and killed the well respected Mr Nesbitt. The reasons why Steve Harmon is guilty is because he questioned his innocence and Mrs. O’Brien was flipping the cup to get Steve Harmon to rearrange his story of what happened that day.

Who is Steve Harmon? Steve Harmon is the main character in the book “Monster”. Steve is a young adult on trial for being an accomplice of manslaughter and a robbery. The court found Steve not guilty. This was not a good verdict. Steve was an accomplice to murder. He was involved and he did indeed talk to Bobo and King before the “robbery” was supposed to happen. Also Steve lied to the court about nearly everything when he was on the stand answering questions.

Reading the essays in the Monsters text, it is fascinating to see how connected all the stories written by different authors with dissimilar purposes are. Through the issues regarding the monsters, the elements that hold the essays together, and what is interesting about the readings. Though these stories span different times, each one shows a different side of humanity, monsters are scary because they are so humanlike and we can see ourselves as these monstrosities.

He had killed a white woman”3. During this time laws were made solely in favor of white america and capitalists. Nine years before the publication of “Native Son” the trial of The Scottsboro Boys took place which caused great controversy across the United States. Although the actions of Bigger were different from The Scottsboro Boys, the cases were similar in the way that Bigger was an automatic suspect due to his race in the eyes of the detective

This quarter, I read Monster by Walter Dean Myers for my book report. Monster was published in April 24, 1999. It’s 281 pages long and A very interesting book. Monster takes place in the court for just about the entire story. Monster takes place in the courtroom.

This quarter, I read the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers. I honestly did not like the book at all because it was not exciting. Walter Dean Myers started off the book great. He opened up with a handwritten font in a journal that left in a cliffhanger. That intrigued me to be excited to read more of the book, but it disappointed me too. Throughout the book the author is so descriptive, I can assume that because e is writing a screenplay and screenplays must be detailed or else the movie will be different. The ending of the book, for me, was succesful because the real murderer received jail time, as deserved for taking a life. It was also succesful because Steve Harmon didnt go to jail. I did wish Steve Harmon got a fine for being an acsessory

The terrified and abused maiden could feel the searing tears blur her vision to near darkness, threatening to steal her away from the wolf's powerful grip across her thin throat, her mind sinking deeper and deeper into the almost pleasant buzz that was pure nothingness.It was like an tempting force beyond this realm that beckoned her so sweetly to a plane of existence that was an escape from the violent lust of the monster who had proved his ownership over her time and time again, the sense of awe like a bittersweet friend that wanted to welcome her into open arms if only to end her abuse once and for all. But the wolf would never allow this, that mercy a right she seemingly had not earned as much like all the countless times before her head

You lay still, body resting on the green grass with the flowers swaying in front of your face like a lazy river of purple. All around you, the tall trees groaned and moaned as they, too, swayed against the harsh winds that raged above. Bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds scooted past your vision as your eyes flickered open and to your surprise, you could make out the sun, big, bright, and round, glowing in the distance. You pushed yourself onto your knees brushing off twigs and leaves as you went before staggering to a stand and allowing yourself to take in the sights around you. You sighed, running a calm hand down your face praying you were still in your world and that the machine had failed, but we all know that's not what happened. You stood there, silent for a few moments before a swift and sudden sound of a stick being snapped in two echoed around you.

She couldn't understand why she was letting herself fall for this, she could have easily fended him off if she wanted to, but she didn't want to. Her body betrayed her as it ached for his every little touch, begging for it actually as she found herself soaking wet from the juices that left her. She needed to feel him in every way she possibly could regardless of the fact that her brain was screaming at her to stop. This was a total betrayal of everything she had been taught growing up, he wasn't a man he was a monster but at this very moment, she may as well have been a monster herself. She hardly had time to prepare herself when his tongue buried itself deep inside her sending a gasp followed by a pleasurable moan from her lips, her hands

     To sacrifice oneself and save others is what we've known as human love, and we have also learned that we should respect those who could perform that in any situation, but in reality, the numbers of those people who don't care about what others do seems much greater than the number of those who do. In Stephen Crane's story, "The Monsters", Henry Johnson who sacrifices himself into the fire in order to save a little boy gets treated like a monster just because his face has "burned away"(84). This is very serious problem because it's not what happens only in the book, but also in our present lives.