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Monster By Walter Dean Myers Sparknotes

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In the novel, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, 16- year- old Steve Harmon is placed on trial for felony murder. Steve tries to prove his innocence to the jury and he is found not guilty. Therefore, he is acquitted of any crime. However, Steve’s contradicting thoughts make the reader question his innocence. When steve was discussing the testimony with his father in jail, he said, “I am just going to tell them the truth, that I didn’t do anything wrong.” An innocent person wouldn’t have to question whether to tell the truth or not. An innocent person shouldn’t have to lie in order to get out of jail. They should be able to tell the truth without any hesitation. In Steve's journal he wrote, “What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for
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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 court system, the only thing keeping Steve from his parents, his brother, it will be the deciding factor if whether Steve goes to or stays out of Jail in the novel Monster written by Walter Dean Myers. Steve Harmon is a 16 year old boy that we get to learn about through the numerous journal entries and his script of his journey throughout jail and court. He is suspected in court for being an alleged suspect along with James King. Throughout the book we learn about the inside of Harmon and what he tells us about what he did, and where he was during the crime but we never get to know the truth about it he really committed the crime which proves the theme. Ones true actions can never be revealed.

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The whole jury said he is not guilty. People also said that Steve had done nothing wrong; they believed he had nothing to do with it. However, just because he was found not guilty doesn't mean Steve was innocent. Therefore, Steve was a monster. Steve was a monster because he was friends with bad people.

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Steve Harmon, a fifteen year old , was charged with robbery and murder but did not do it. As a member of the film club, Steve Harmon is charged with these offenses in the novel Monster. The owner of a drug store was shot and killed, and Harmon is being investigated. However, he is innocent because the state's witnesses are untrustworthy, there is no evidence he was present, and he never finished his claimed assignment. All of this demonstrates that Steve Harmon is not guilty.

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Steve Harmon is a kid who is on trial for being a part of a robbery and murder. He lives in Harlem; New York and he is also only 16 years old. In the novel, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, Steve Harmon was a monster because he lied and he doubts himself. Steve was a monster because he lied to the jury and said that he wasn’t in the store that day. Steve is in jail waiting on his trial for robbery and murder.

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“You should have said, ‘I didn’t do it,” (Myers 138). In the novel, Monster—written by Walter Dean Myers—follows the life of a sixteen year old boy Steve Harmon who is a suspect of felony murder and robbery. Throughout the story, we see several journal entries from Harmon who reveals weakness through his words but not his actions. Clearly, if someone were to show weakness during adversity, there would be negative consequences in the future.

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People wonder how other people think about them perpetually. In the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve realizes that people think that people that he is just like the others. The others are put on trial and they are immediately considered monsters. Steve Harmon is 16 and is put on trial for felony murder and Ms. O’Brien is his defense attorney, trying to persuade the jury that Harmon is innocent. Harmon and James King are the defendants for the case.

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Many times in life, people are accused of actions that were not theirs. They must go through a series of events to prove this action wrong and abhorrent. In the novel, Monster, written by Walter Dean Myers, Steve, a sixteen-year-old boy, young and confused, has been placed on trial accused of felony murder. As the jury looked into this case, they came to the conclusion Steve was not guilty. Many factors led to the conclusion of Steve being proven not guilty.

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Steve is an average 16-year-old boy who goes to high school and likes to make films. Steve shouldn’t have ever been placed on trial, but when he was, it should’ve been quick and easy, rather than long and extensive. In the trial, Steve states that he has only ever had quick conversations with the other suspects of the robbery, conversations about simple stuff like basketball, he also claims that at the time of the robbery, he wasn’t at the gas station in which the crime occurred. At a different point in the trial Steve’s film teacher, Mr. Sawicki, provides a character testimony for Steve, claiming that Steve is a good, honest young man, and that he could tell this through Steve’s films. This testimony from Steve’s teacher is trustworthy because it’s insight from a person, not related to Steve, meaning there is less chance for there to be bias, that spends a lot of time around Steve or with Steve’s work, and it being reliable provides integrity to the previous claims of Steve showing how innocent he

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At the end of the trial, the jury made their decision. The author wrote, “The guards who were standing behind Steve moved away from him. He has been found not guilty.” (Myers 276).Steve being a good person has better reasons than him being a bad person because one of the reasons for him being a bad person was because he was friends with bad people. Just because he is friends with bad people doesn't mean he does the same stuff as them.

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“MONSTER” a word to describe some in the community. In the novel “Monster” written by Walter Dean Myers explains a life through the eyes of a 16 year old boy named Steve Harmon in which he is on trial with James King for the murder of Mr. Nesbitt. The novel is written throughout the movie script of Steve Harmon. Myers demonstrates a common theme throughout out the story of the pain, punishment, joy, and hope. For every little action, the rest of one's future could be affected.

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Steve’s judgment of his actions is similar to a pendulum swinging. Although Steve believes within himself that he is innocent, of the important people around him, make him insecure as to the degree of his innocence and turn to others for confirmation. Steve Harmon, the defendant, is faced with an internal conflict that questions his self-identity and his character in relation to the crime.

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Before the trial, Steve is already scared of what the outcome is and how he might spend his whole life in jail and starts doubting his chances of being found not guilty. During the trial, Steve starts hearing the things the prosecutor is saying and sees the people who are testifying against him, which is already not putting him in a good state of mind, and this combines with him seeing his father who looks very scared of Steve, and this all gives Steve disappointment. After the trial, Steve is found not guilty and gets to return home and we next hear from him five months later where we see his father had left him and that Steve doesn’t even know who he is, which shows that he feels damaged. With all of this in mind, we can see that Steve, a dark-skinned, sixteen-year-old boy, has gone through a change from being afraid to feeling lost with himself through doubt, disappointment, and damage. Image how other people feel in

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