Monster Book Review, Author: Walter Dean Myers.

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Monster By Walter Dean Myers The main character in the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers is 16-year-old Steve Harmon who has been arrested and put on trial for his part in a robbery in which a convenience store owner was killed. A question that people can ask while reading this novel is, was Steve Harmon truly the lookout for the convenience story robbery or was he in the wrong place at the wrong time? Regardless, he has been arrested for his part in the crime that led to the killing of the store's owner. Through his journal writings and his movie scripts, complete with stage directions, Steve shares his story of his observations of what he sees and hears from his ...

... the police officers knees against my back, my head pressed against the ground. I was in such an awkward position that all of the officer's pressure was against back thus pushing my diaphragm against solid concrete, he pulled my up and I inhaled air that I was desperately lacking. Another officer approached me whilst the other was holding me and said "young man you have just committed vandalism and will be charged with damage of private property, in the meantime I was screaming "You have the wrong guy, what did I do wrong?" Like a 12 year old school girl. Apparently I had done graffiti tagging on some old mans wall; they searched me and

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