Monster By Walter Dean Myers Sparknotes

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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. Clearly, some people do not know the actual truth and blame mistakes on others.
The first way this is shown in the book is by Asa Briggs, King’s defense attorney. She doesn’t know exactly what happened and she blames on Bobo that he is just accusing someone to get a lighter sentence. “The