On The Sidewalk Bleeding Analysis

Although the stories’ main components mirror each other, they still differentiate. For example, in “The Devil and Tom Walker,” everyone believes Tom has made a deal with the devil, whereas in “Young Goodman Brown,” the author questions the actuality

In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve Harmon is a normal 16-year-old except for the fact he is on trial for something he believes he didn’t do. He thinks he’s telling the truth, but can one really know that. Murderer, liar, and monster Steve have been called all these things and now he’s starting to question if he’s guilty or not. At every twist and turn, people are telling the “truth” to save themselves. But the real truth is, the truth is a concept that cannot be proved.

The life of the monster can be related to the motherless life led by Shelley. Shelley’s mother too left her as soon as she was born, and as a result, she had quite an arduous life. Combined with her father’s financial woes, her tumultuous relationship with her stepmother meant that Shelley did not have an ideal childhood, which would have had a serious impact on her personality. She had to put up with a lot of miseries when she grew up, and was subjected to lifelong condemnation from the society because of her affair with the married Shelley.

“I'm a monster. I'm a monster. I'm a monster”. This is one of the many things Steve Harmon had written in his screenplay of his trial. Steve is the main character in Walter Dean Myers’ book Monster. Steve faces a trial where he might charged with the murder of Aguinaldo Nesbitt. He is on trial next to his supposed acquaintance James King and the Prosecution’s attorney Sandra Petrocelli. The book composed in a third person screenplay of Steve’s experiences during the trial. In Monster Walter Dean Myers uses the appearances of Steve, Osvaldo, and the case itself to prove the theme that not everything is as it seems.

Myers believes serial killers have captured the public’s attention and imagination for many reasons. One of these undoubtedly is the fact that until serial killers are apprehended, they represent a time before the current generation, unknown, mysterious, and full of terror. The predators are secretive and sly, able to attack and strike fear into the hearts of a community, and this reason I why Myers believes that “the Other in its most threatening form” is such a captivating

One of the biggest stages of grief, Depression Steven takes a hard hit from. In the last third of the book is where he starts to take the hardest hit from depression. He starts to have these “What’s the point?” moments (Sonnenblick, 154) where he would doubt reasons to do different things, and then not end up doing them

Imagine skipping that awkward childhood stage of life and going straight to being an adult; never having to worry about parent’s rules or curfews. But if all of a sudden, one was forced into the world of adults with the mindset of a newborn child, one would not know the difference between right and wrong and possibly even become a victim. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the monster is the true victim of the book. He is abused in multiple ways, he does nothing to warrant the unjust treatment he receives and he is forced into solitude.

In my perspective a Monster is someone who doesn’t have a heart and cause trouble despite of the consequences. However according Stave’s attorney Kathy O’Brien a monster is some sort of animal that’s in trouble, which she doesn’t trust, but her job is to prove the monsters innocence. As she states while waiting in the courtroom next to Steve, "My job is to make...you a human being in the eyes of the jury." (Myers 16)

Monster and “ Murder on a Sunday Morning,” are more alike than different. One reason they are more alike is, they both got accused of felony murder. In Monster Steve Harmon was accused for killing Mr. Nesbitt in a drugstore robbery. In “Murder on a Sunday Morning,” Brendon was accused for killing Mrs. Stephens. Mr. Stephens told the cops that Brendon killed his wife, and the believed him because he was the only eye witness. Another reason the two stories are similar is, that in both there was prejudice and racism. In “Murder on a Sunday Morning,” Brenton Buttler was the accused, he was black. But at the end he was not guilty, saying that at 5 feet away that he could not recognize a man. So he is saying that all black men look alike. In Monster

     Despite his situation, Stephen is able to separate the good from the bad and his experiences benefit him greatly. In the

They both are products of their environment because they both show how the town you live in the people you chose to hang with can all change you as an individual. The author Wes Moore was influenced by the people around him and the community which made him into a dealer and user of drugs because his friends were into drugs and getting in trouble the author Wes also saw the money that could be made selling drugs. The other Wes Moore moved a lot and everywhere he went the drug game was big and he could make a living. The other Wes also had a brother that was heavily into the drug game and keep

Ted Bundy, the infamous serial killer from the 1970’s was severely different from most people in society. He kidnapped and killed multiple girls, among many other horrendous things. Furthermore, some events in his childhood may have led to these impulses he had. Sometime in his life, before he began killing, it was revealed to Bundy that some significant parts of his life were a lie. His presumed parents were actually his grandparents, and his older sister was really his mother. This discovery impacted Bundy deeply, and he was never the same again. This event of his past helped shape who Bundy became through his adult life, similar to how Victor Frankenstein from the Mary Shelley’s novel is led down a path of destruction because of his childhood. The novel Frankenstein is about the man Victor Frankenstein, and his scientific journey of creating the Monster and having to live with the consequences of what he has done. There are many different

There are many books, written by numerous authors, containing similar themes and elements. Two such stories fitting that description are Angela’s Ashes and The Street. The former takes place in Ireland and is written by Frank McCourt; the latter is set in New York and is written by Ann Petry. The characters seem like they would not have much, if anything, in common. Frank McCourt’s main character is a child, born into a large, impoverished family; Petry’s is a single mother trying to get by. Additionally, their geographical locations and the cultures in each place vary greatly. However, their stories are similar in the fact that both characters have relating struggles. The primary theme of each of their stories is close to identical. Both

Both stories feature a very intelligent person trying to play God through the creation of life. Both of the creatures were subsequently mistreated by their maker and society as a whole. In both stories, the audience is left feeling greater sympathy for the monster than for the creator.

Like most horror stories, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has a wretched monster who terrorizes and kills his victims with ease. However, the story is not as simple as it seems. One increasingly popular view of the true nature of the creature is one of understanding. This sympathetic view is often strengthened by looking at the upbringing of the creature in the harsh world in which he matures much as a child would. With no friends or even a true father, the creature can be said to be a product of society and its negative views and constant rejections of him. Although this popular view serves to lessen the severity of his crimes in most people’s eyes, the fact remains that the creature is in fact a cold-hearted wretch whose vindictive nature