Y Dommonster Character Analysis

You are guilty until proven innocent.” ¨Monster¨ is about a teenage boy named Steve Harmon sixteen years old from Harlem, New York. Steve is well educated and talented. This story has a lot of courtroom drama that leaves readers with a teenage boy who almost loses his freedom. After, reading Walter Dean Myers´s story entitled ¨Monster,” it's clear that the literary elements of characterization, conflict, and point of view adds drama to this story. Characterization, is described as important traits seen in the act of characterizing or describing the individual quality of a person or thing. Steve is described as motivated, outgoing, and well educated. He is on trial for murder and facing 25 year to life. Steve and and his lawyer are to make himself look innocent to the jurors eyes. ¨You have to believe in yourself if we're going to convince a jury that you're innocent.¨(24) ¨You need to present yourself as someone the jurors can believe in¨(216) Steve is motivated because, he never gives up on his trail. Conflict, a disagreement that is very intense. In a courtroom you are to fight for your justice or freedom. While they are in the courtroom Steve is being attack to tell the truth about the what happened the day Mr. Nesbitt was killed during a drug store holdup. “Mr. Harmon you say you weren’t at the drugstore anytime during the day of
While steve is in jail the has a journal where he express his experience about his jail time. Steve has a few journals that he shares with the readers. Steve’s journal talk about how he felt about the trail and his time spent in jail. “Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience I’ll call it what the prosecutor called me...Monster.”(4-5) “Lying on my cot I think of everything that has happened over the year”(45) Steve doesn’t alway feel so happy about what he did or how he did