Monster By Walter Dean Myers Essay

choices are accurate and true. In Divergent, Harriet the Spy, and Monster, the main characters are challenged to decipher their place in the world at a young age based on the culture and society. ¬¬¬ Steve Harmon in Walter Dean Myer’s Monster is forced to understand why he is being accused for a crime he did not commit since the accusation seems to be primarily based on the color of his skin. It is not the decision of the characters in Monster to choose how they will be viewed by society, they are born

The book Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, tells the tale of two young men being on trial for felony murder. Sixteen year-old Steve Harmon and twenty-two year-old James King are accused of participating in a robbery that caused the death of an innocent man. That innocent man’s name was Aguinaldo Nesbitt, and he owned a drugstore in Harlem. The Prosecutor, Sandra Petrocelli claims that Steve Harmon served as the lookout in the robbery, and also says James King was the one who pulled the trigger on the