Myers‚ Walter Dean. (b. 1937)‚ poet‚ editor‚ and novelist. A versatile and prolific writer‚ Walter Dean Myers (also Walter M. Myers) has published short fiction‚ essays‚ and poetry in such disparate periodicals as the Liberator‚ Negro Digest‚ McCall’s‚ Essence‚ Espionage‚ and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. He was a regular contributor to men’s magazines until‚ as he says‚ "they gave themselves up to pornography." In 1968‚ he wrote his first children’s book as an entry to a contest sponsored
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The story I read and am writing my essay on is the book Hoops by Walter Dean Myers. The reason why I am writing this essay is because I like this is a great book. The book is about a seventeen year old boy named Lonnie‚ faces a difficult life with the harsh nagging of his mom and trying to become pro at basketball. Later on in this book Lonnie faces a really difficult decision if he wants to throw the game or if he wants to beat the opposing team. This is a great book because it teaches about friendship
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Round character Definition: A round character is a major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it. Round characters tend to be more fully developed and described than flat‚ or static‚ characters. If you think of the characters you most love in fiction‚ they probably seem as real to you as people you know in real life. This is a good sign that they are round characters. A writer employs a number of tools or elements to develop a character‚ making him or her round
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the novel “Monster” by Walter Dean Myers the readers are introduced to Steve Harmon. Steve gets proven innocent with the help of his teacher and also by the jury finding out he was not part of the robbery and the crime committed. The character Steve is perceived as innocent because of his teacher’s good testimony‚ Mrs. Henry not being able to recognizing steve in the lineup and by Bobo testifying that Steve never gave out a signal in the drug store. To begin with the character Steve is perceived as
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The novel I am reading is Monster by Walter Dean Myers. This story is about Steve a young black male who has been accused of murder and stealing cigarettes. Steve was in a robbery in a store when the clerk was shot and killed. Steve didn’t kill the clerk he stole cigarettes and sold them. In the book Steve is admitting that he stole the cigarettes but all the other people on trial are saying he killed the clerk. One of the major social issues in Monster has to do with race. Steve is a young
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Monster‚ by Walter Dean Myers‚ is about a 16 year old Harlem boy named Steve Harmon. Steve gets tried for murder in a court of law because he supposedly was involved in the burglary/shooting of Mr. Nesbit‚ the convenience store clerk on December 22. Steve is wrongfully arrested‚ and spends time in jail awaiting his verdict‚ which he is found innocent for after a long trial. While in prison‚ Steve put his time to good use and wrote a play word for word based on his trial. This book falls under the
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Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers is a writer of children’s and young adult literature. Born in West Virginia in 1937‚ after his mother died‚ when Myers was only two‚ he was sent to live with foster parents. With these parents‚ Florence and Herbert Dean‚ Walter moved to Harlem. The Deans were good to Myers‚ and as an adult he took their last name as his own middle name‚ to honor them. Myers spent most of his young adult life in Harlem. "Harlem became my home and the place where my first impressions
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Walter Dean Myers is a well established author who writes compelling stories of the struggles of young adults. Walter Dean Myers became well known by his astounding achievements and amazing literature. A big part of what made Walter who he is today is his early life and how it affected his writing‚ his first success‚ his background‚ how his writing contributed to our youth‚ the controversies about him‚ and the fact of should his books be red in a high school. The great quality that Walter Dean
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The book Monster‚ by Walter Dean Myers‚ is a life learning experience for Steve‚ the main character. Steve Harmon is a 16 year old who is in jail at the start of the book. He faces life in jail for a feeling murder. A first-hand experience that questions the American legal system. However‚ Steve is writing a journal about his experience in jail. The tone Myers writes the journal in is a fear and violence way and feeling of the story. Otherwise‚ Myers shows a lesson to me about how black people were
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Meriem Jerbi MA1 Literature The study of characters of a literary work is as important as the study of its content because it offers a venue through which the writer’s thematic concerns are articulated and broached. In fact‚ critics and writers go to great lengths in drawing a well distinctive classification of characters. In the 20th century‚ a broad theoretical distinction was frequently made between flat and round characters. Relying on E.M Forster’s book _Aspects of the Novel_‚ this present
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