Monster Hollow Short Story

The novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers is the book I chose to read and do my essay on. The genre Walter chose for the book Monster is realistic fiction. The novel was published in 1999 which is a year after I was borning. The reason why I chose this Novel is because a teacher recommended the book to me a couple year ago but, I never got a chance to read it. I always assumed the book was good because it won three awards. The first award the book won was the National Book Award for young people’s literature. The second award the book won was the Michael L. Printz Awards. The third award the book won was called the Coretta Scott King Award Honor all in which the book won in the same year 2000. The book is told from the perspective of a young african american teenager named steve harmon. Steve lives in harlem where the story takes place. One night steve chose to hang with a bad group of friends and was in a robbery. During the robbery one of Steve’s friend kills the cashier. Now Steve is in jail and going back and forth to court hoping to be proven not guilty of felony murder. Steve and I lives are alike in many different ways although we come from different backgrounds.

My favorite story was The Monsters are Due on Maple Street because it was very exciting and there was a lot of action going on. When the flash went over the neighborhood everybody stopped what they were doing to see what had happened. They talked to each other to see if the other one knew what was going on nobody knew. The neighborhood tried to go back to their business but nothing worked it was all turned off husbands told their wives to check things in the house and that didn’t work either Steve’s car wouldn’t even start.

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.

The idea of what a monster is and how it pertains to modern day society has fascinated readers and writers for decades. Before taking this class, I was aware of what a monster is and the function it served in today’s society. Furthermore, after taking this class, I am now aware of what a monster truly is, and what really separates a monster from a regular person. The piece of text that I mainly chose to focus on and elaborate closely to demonstrate the aspects of a monster is appropriately named, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers. The reason I chose this piece of literature is because, Monster thoroughly elaborates what a monster is in todays society and how it functions in the modern day world. In this essay I will elaborate on

“Monster” by Kelly Link is a modern twist of scary campfire stories. This story is about a monster who kills a group of campers and encounters a strange boy. The monster was fascinated by this boy, James, because of how different he was then everyone else. James intrigued the monster because he was wearing a dress, covered in mud, and had stinky feet. Although, James caught his attention the other campers were not as lucky.

When we were kids we were told of many imaginary monsters, but as you grow up we learn what the real monsters are. A monster is defined as a badly behaved or cruel person, something that is absurdly large, or a fictional and frightening creature. The monsters that we know of today are nothing like the ones when we were little kids. When you realize things like the monster under your bed isn’t real is when you come to know that society is the real monster. Jennifer Lynn Barnes gives us insight on who the monsters really are when she tells us that, "They told him he was killing monsters, and then they made him kill people. He thought it was just me who was different, and he didn't go through with killing me. He

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.

Every human being on Earth has a different perception on justice, innocence and guilt. In the book Monster, the author Walter Dean Myers explores on this topic in an unusual way. The protagonist, Steve Harmon, writes about his experience on trial and in jail. Steve tells it through a screenplay for a movie, where he is the main character, but the thing that is fascinating about this idea is the way Steve presents his innocence. The reader is able to scrutinize his thoughts and feelings from his journal entries to have a better grasp of what happened.

How does one know if they can trust themself—that what they believe to be the truth is really true? Sometimes one can lie to themself without even knowing it, other times one worries that they are lying to themself, but they cannot tell if they are. In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve Harmon and James King are put on trial for the felony murder of a drug store owner, Mr. Nesbitt. During his jail time due to the trial, he writes a movie script and journal entries, which is how the information is presented to the reader. Kathy O’Brien, Harmon’s lawyer, helps him to be innocent in the eyes of the jury while the prosecutor, Sandra Petrocelli, and King’s lawyer, Asa Briggs attempt to link Harmon to King. Throughout Harmon’s writing, it is evident

Hey y’all. Look in the sky! What is that? Is that a meteor! One day on maple street our power went out , les goodman car won’t start no one’s car would start. On maple street, there was no power. Steve & charlie were going to go up town, but Tommy said Steve please don’t go!” Steve said, “why”. Tommy said” the aliens in the meteor don’t want you to go up town. The monster on maple street is about these people that supposed to be best friends, but on this lonely night the power went out on maple street. So everybody went outside to see if everybody power was out and it was, no cars would start on maple street. Until Les Goodman car stated all by itself, then everybody look at the car and then they look at Les Goodman and said that how did his car started all by itself that is in possible. Then Les Goodman said is wasn’t me who started the y’all seen me when i try to start is but it wouldn’t start.

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.

If people always believe that one is telling the truth, there would not be such thing as lying. Monster by Walter Dean Myers is about a sixteen year old named Steve Harmon and a twenty three year old named James King who are on trial for the murder of Alguinaldo Nesbitt. Through Steve’s time in jail, he writes notes about everything that happens. The theme of this book is one shall not always believe themselves because one is not always right.

The study I chose was the Monster Study, it was a study that took place at the University of Iowa in 1939 by two female researchers named Wendell Johnson and Mary Tudor. They conducted an experiment on stuttering. This experiment was done on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa. The children were separated into two groups, the first group received positive speech therapy where the children were praised for how good their speech was. In the second group the children were taught bad speech therapy and the children were belittled for every time they did not speak the right way. At the end of the experiment the normal-speaking children from group two that was belittled developed negative psychological effects, and

“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is a screenplay by Rod Serling that was televised as part of the Twilight Zone television series, a popular series that began in 1959 and is still televised today. After reading and then watching the selection, I prefer the teleplay better than the episode. The reason I prefer the teleplay are based on the characters, actions, and visual effects. The first reason is the characters, I like imagining how the characters behave, and be able to make them act how I think that character would act, while you can’t do that in a episode. I like to make the character my own while in the episode, if I played the part I would be told how to play that person. Instead of being told I like to make that character my

The monster giggles while I silently cry. It has curly short brown hair and blue eyes. Its nose is oval with giant, hairy NOSTRILS! Some parts of its skin are bright pink while others beige. It holds me with its two bulging hands, but I can barely endure it. It sits on the moist grass and holds me between its legs. It’s a shame that I had to be captured on such a sunny day.