Walter Dean Myers Monster Critical Analysis

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

“Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria” - Alan Greenspan. New York author, Alan Greenspan, here is explaining that the threat fear presents is really no different than the state of intensity caused by euphoria. In Andrew J. Hoffman’s anthology, Monsters, there is substantial evidence that both fear and euphoria are inflicted upon men, by female monsters. The two threats men typically face against women are temptation and emasculation. Thus, in mythology and folklore, female monsters exemplify the impulse of desire (sexually) for men, and male weakness. These are creature that are lusted after and yet, still feared because of their power. Men find female monsters both fearsome and euphoric and will always threaten their dominance and control.

Next, this narrative fiction can be regarded as an epistolary novel because the whole narrative is organized in forms of letters. In the beginning part of the story, the frame narrator Walton writes letters of Frankenstein’s

Monster is an example of what Patty Campbell would call a “landmark book.” Texts such as these “encourage readers to interact with the text and with one another by employing a variety of devices, among them ambiguity” (Campbell 1) Because it is told through the eyes of Steve himself, the plot can be difficult to decipher. It is ambiguous whether he is innocent or guilty of being involved with the crime. Steve learned to make things unpredictable from his film teacher Mr. Sawicki who teaches him, “If you make your film predictable, they’ll make up their minds about it long before it’s over” (19). Steve took his teacher’s advice and made this film script entirely unpredictable,

Monster by Sanyika Shakur yields a firsthand insight on gang warfare, prison, and redemption. “There are no gang experts except participants (xiii)” says Kody Scott aka. Monster. Monster vicariously explains the roots of the epidemic of South Central Los Angeles between the Crips and the Bloods that the world eventually witnessed on April 29, 1992. As readers we learn to not necessarily give gangs grace but do achieve a better understanding of their disposition to their distinct perception in life.

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

Michael Myers is known for his uncontrollable killing of his own bloodline. Known from the Halloween film series, after killing his older sister and being locked up in a mental institute for fifteen years, Myers escapes and goes on the search for his remaining family member, his little sister. He not only goes through challenges to get rid of anyone related to him, but he also kills any innocent soul that might get in his way. He has this immortality that aids him to survive any type of death that is inflicted on him. Why does a normal kid with a troubled childhood who grew up in the suburbs have this immortal life and need to kill his family? It is said that The Curse of Thorn was allocated on Michael by a cult. Compelling him to be an invincible

The difference between a truth and a lie is a very fine line. Because to many people the truth is only what they believe to be factual. Throughout the book Monster written by Walter D. Myers, the reader experiences a slippery slope that leads them to believe the main character Steve Harmon was lying during his trial. However, this is simply what one believes . This is the mental warfare that goes in ones head as they read Monster.

Any baker knows that when following a recipe, there are certain ingredients that can be added in decreased or increased quantities, substituted with another ingredient, or excluded as a whole, while still not affecting the overall outcome of the recipe. On the other hand, there are other ingredients that must be measured precisely in order for the recipe to be successful. The aforementioned description holds true for literary works, as well. The success of some pieces relies heavily on a strong plot, while the success of others is found primarily from the quality of characters and setting. To construct a successful Frankenstein story, one must be sure to include the creation of the monster, the human-like qualities embodied by the monster,

Monsters. What is a monster? The term monster can have a variety of definitions; to some a monster is a secret,an addiction, disability, or anything that is holding them back. Is it something big, green, and scary that hides under our bed? This is what children believe monsters are; the older I get the more I realize witches, ghost, vampires,and werewolfs are not truly monsters. As I got older I realized monsters are not obvious in appearance, they look just like me, they live just a couple towns over, but visually nothing is different between me and the monsters in our society. A very personal monster I have is nightmares. Many nights in a row it is possible for me to have nightmares, waking up in the middle of my dreams is not uncommon. As you could imagine going back to sleep is not easy for me. The dream keeps replaying in my head after I wake up. The dreams are typically about someone trying to

These theses are written by “Jeffrey Jerome Cohen” about the types of monster’s present in this world. The cultures of thinking their behavior in different ways. It’s all about how monsters get induced by the society and how they give the definition of these creatures. He gives seven distinct views relating to their portrayal, nature, presence, and thinking. He contends that monsters are significantly more than the startling image we regularly imagine. However, I figure Monsters as a half human, half creature. They do not fit in any class, or they may have some kind of other disfigurement or social trademark that keeps them from being characterized as a particular animal type.

"A Monster Calls", follows Conor, a young boy dealing with the perils of youth, all while being terrorize nightly by a monster. And although featuring a monster, the fear this book elicited in me, is what can be best described as profound. Where this fear and monster really stem from is something I will leave you, as the reader, to discover. Just know this, 'A Monster Calls', a novel concieved by the late Siobhan Dowd, isn't merely a story about cancer, or a story about a monster, or a story about a young boy, or a story about growing up, or a story about

Growing up as a child it was known that at night they wanted little kids but most fearfully they lived right in your own home. As a child thinks, perhaps they lived in your closet, under the bed, or even the dark and creepy basement that no one never cleans? Monsters. When you hear the word monster, what is it that first comes to your mind? Do you think of monsters as something large, or do you feel that monsters can be small? Or maybe perhaps you have even considered all monsters to be frightening. It is obvious that these things are what nightmares are made of; it does not matter the images nor context, monster will never be an approachable word.

Scouring the thin pages of my book, I cracked the spine to mark my progress. Though in reality I sat on a skinny bunk bed in the woods of western New York, in that moment I followed Frankenstein across Europe. I was swimming, immersed in the world of Victor and the monster. I moved purposefully from page to page. My eyes darted hungrily across each line as I searched for resolution—

This essay aims to interpret the social context, genre and the writing techniques of three different texts: Frankenstein written by Mary Shelly a fictional story about a monster in this world, I have a dream by Martin Luther King a non-fictional speech written about the writer’s life and Educating Rita by Willy Russell, a drama about the relationship between a freshman student in open university and her professor.