Caleb Sirmans
Bridget Tomlison
9th grade Lit/Comp
13 Febuary 2023
An astonishing 93% of the inmates in the United States prison system are males. While incarceration impacts each prisoner differently, thier lives are forever changed.Although the fictional account of Steve Harmon’s time behind bars details his own individual struggles, it often mirrors the experiences of many real-life inmates.
Although they were convicted of crimes very diffrent than Steve Harmon, the prisoner interviews from the article sound like they were taken straight from a chapter in Monster. For example,imate, Emanuel Price, describes in the article that he felt defenseless, as if he was thrown “ into a lion’s den” when he went to prison, which closely mirrors Harmon’s sentiment about being “terrified out of my mind” each night while he was in jail. While Monster is merely a fictional story, it is quite evident Steve’s situation parallels many of the same experiences by the article’s real-life inmates.
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For instent, both and the incarnated men point out they had substantial amount of time to complete their lives while in prison. Consequintly, in Monster, Steve comes to the realziation that he was not much diffrent than the other men in jail and it was actually him who had “ wanted to be tough like them”. Considering this, Steve deeply ponders what it means to be innocent, which resembles the perspective of inmate, Keith Moody from the article who made the Self-revelation that he had been “ Proclaiming to be a father, proclaiming to be a man” but he had not been living up to either of those titles. Over all, Prison can be a tramatic experiance, but many inmates, like Harmon and Moody, can use the time to reflect on their mistakes and strive to improve their lives in the