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Monster By Walter Dean Myers Chapter Summary

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The title of the novel Monster, illustrated by Walter Dean Myers, the main character Steve Harmon a 16-year old African-American male. That shows a lot of conflicts that he goes through the novel, the theme of the novel is that this character Steve Harmon goes through rough moment in jail and letting himself down for that. He learns this lesson when Osvaldo was lying in court so, then they thought, the people who defend Steve Harmon, O’Brien thought that everything Osvaldo said was lies. In Page 106 When they ask him if he used to be in a gang, he lies about it says that he wasn't part of no gang then, osvaldo said the information I got right here says that you were a part of a gang call Los Diablos or this all lie she asks him, then he responds
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Steven Harmon, he is the protagonist of Monster. The novel starts off with Steve writing about the best time to cry and all of this stuff he is experiencing. He is a 16 year old African-American on trial for the murder of a drug store owner. He acts nervous in the courtroom when the antagonist of the novel, Bobo King gives him a dirty look. King is the other young man who is accused of taking part of the crime.

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James King, he also changes for robbery and murder Monster is about a Steve Harmon who thinks he will be jail for the rest of his life. In order to keep him calm, he made a movie in his head. order. Kathy O'Brien is Steve's Attorney but she doesn't think that the case will win but she tried anyway.

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“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” by Rod Serling criticize the people of Maple Street. The teleplay (as we will call “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”) criticizes the people of Maple Street by saying, “(People shout, accuse, and scream as the lights go on and off. Then, slowly, in the middle of this nightmarish confusion of sight and sound,)” This shows that they are chaotic people at the end of the teleplay. (Remember?

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In the teleplay, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” written by Rod Serling I noticed that the teleplay criticizes the people who live on Maple Street. Serling criticizes the character Charlie he was the one who shot Pete Van Horn and his house lights also went on after he shot Pete Van Horn. “(Charlie swings around, raises the gun, and suddenly pulls the trigger. The sound of the shot explodes in the stillness. The figure suddenly lets out a small cry, stumbles forward onto his knees, and then falls forward on his face.

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Innocent or Guilty Once William Shakespeare said, “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” This quote tells people that they could know what they are right now but they do not know what will happen to them in the future. In the realistic fiction book Monster Walter Dean Myers proves this quote is true with the main character. The main character shows that people can be in a situation where they know they are innocent but it may look different in other people's eyes and change their innocence to guilt. The story starts out with the main character Steve Harmon talking to a middle-aged woman, this woman known as O’Brien.

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“The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” Essay In the teleplay “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” by Rod Serling. The theme is that thoughts and attitude can be more destructive than bombs and other weapons. Mr. Serling explicitly states the theme in the last scene of the teleplay.

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This quote by Rod Serling, the narrator, depicts how adults can act childish by attempting to find a scapegoat in moments of distress. The narrator, in Rod Serling’s The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street describes a similar exploit when the residents incriminate each other. The characters set in Maple Street undergo tremendous paranoia when a major blackout occurs. Initially the townspeople believe it is a normal blackout.

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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street There was a teleplay called “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” It was about a group of neighbors who were so paranoid and frightened because they thought aliens were living amongst them. The play is unrealistic because Les Goodman’s car starts by itself and car don’t do that, aliens aren’t real, and Steve was accused of talking to aliens using his ham radio. A boy named Tommy was the one who started this.

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In Emil Ferris's graphic novel, My Favorite Thing is Monsters, the reader is introduced to the young protagonist, Karen Reyes, who navigates through the turbulent social and political landscapes of 1960s Chicago. Karen, a 10-year-old girl who has endured multiple traumas, grapples with the unpredictability and chaos that surrounds her. As a result, Karen indulges in artistic expression as a means of escape, whether it be through monsters and horror or classical mythology and fine art, to process her emotions and delve into themes of identity, otherness, grief, and trauma. Karen's love for art is reflected in the way she creates her own art, and how she views the world around her. Her art is infused with her emotions and experiences, and she

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In the story” The Monsters Are Due On Maple street “ by Rod Serling ,the events and character’s actions advance the plot by the important things that the characters and events do to make the story or explain the story. In the story Steve stated “Doesn’t make sense. Why should the power go off all of a sudden,and the phone line?”Everyone was outside talking. After that statement Steve said everyone in Maple Street U.S.A is questioning on what happened to the power and why it turned off. There was a meteor that flew pass by and the neighbors were thinking maybe that's what had to do with it

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Also, I like how this book points out that the most uncommon people are the most successful. Barker refers to uncommon people as "Hopeful Monsters" which are individuals who deviates radically from the norm in a population because of a genetic mutation that confers a potentially adaptive advantage. For example the book mention Michael Phelps as a hopeful monster. His upper body is too long, legs to short, hands and feet to big, and he has gangly arms. In fact, he doesn’t seem designed to move well on land at all, but Phelps’s collection of odd traits makes him uniquely suited to being an awesome U.S. Olympic swimmer who has won the most awards than any swimmer has won in the world.

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In Kelly Link's short story “Monster” it is based in North Carolina at a camp, but more specifically a group boys in Bungalow 4 and 6 who go out on a hike to camp at Honor lookout in tents. At the beginning Bungalow 6 went out on a hike and saw a monster and of course they came back to tell all of the other groups at camp. A big part of the story is about Bungalow 4 and how everyone in the group picks on this kid named James Lorbick who i guess you could say is not the coolest kid around. When Bungalow 4 goes on their hike it is not much of a true hike but they do find a big bone in the mud. When they set up to camp a kid named Brian starts picking on James.

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Monsters will NEVER ever die: all cultures around the world have them and have had them since people first thought of them. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, Stephen T. Asma, in his essay, Monsters and the Moral Imagination, describes how we look at and are drawn to monsters. But not just monsters, murderers and psychopaths also. Monsters never age, ranging from the first civilization to now. In Asma's essay he asks, "Why do monsters exist?

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“Don 't be afraid of losing people. Be afraid of losing yourself by trying to please everyone around you. "~ Lewis Howes. In the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers, we are introduced to Steve Harmon, a sixteen-year-old dark-skinned boy who is the narrator of the book.

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In “Monsters are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling, the characters and the places advance the plot because everyone was blaming each other. According to the writer, Steve and Don saw something in the sky. “What was that? A meteor?”The reason he says that is because they see something in the sky and they want to figure it out. Also according to the author Tommy tells Steve not to leave Maple Street.

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