Walter Dean Meyers’ Monster is a realistic fiction novel following Steve Harmon‚ a sixteen year-old student on trial for felony murder‚ navigate his way through one of the most challenging‚ nerve-wrecking experiences of his life. The novel focuses on time spent at Steve’s trials as well as moments in jail‚ while it also takes the reader back to moments of his childhood. Written in the point of view of Steve himself‚ the book is written as a journal and not only focuses on the events which are taking
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Dreams by Langston Huges and Summer by Walter Dean Myers gives two different types of poems. The poem Dreams is in the ballad form and takes you to a sad place inside yourself as the reader. Summer is a free verse that gives you the sense of play and have nothing holding you back. Dreams is a ballad because the writer uses repetative speech. "Hold fast to dreams" is an example of the repetative speech in the poem. Dreams gives the impression of sadness and cold. "Life is a broken-winged bird that
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Alinaya English 1A 01/29/2015 MONSTER: The Story of Michael Myers There are a number of horror movies that come out each year. It seems that movie goers are fascinated with the gore and brutality that comes with this genre. Each movie has its own individual plots‚ but there remains a “monster”‚ the character that inspires fear and brings suspense. The monster is what makes each movie unique. One of these is Michael Myers from the Halloween franchise. Michael Myers or better recognized as the man
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times not.” Walter Dean Myers said this to The New York Times about why he writes the way that he does. Walter Dean Myers grew up in a time of racial prejudice in a poor area of Harlem. Growing up African American in Harlem during a period of repeated racial prejudice and being in the Army influenced his writing. You can see some of his life from Harlem in most of his books including The Beast. His writing affected his life and his life affected his writing. Walter Dean Myers was born on August
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How would you like to be on trial for something you didn’t do? In Monster‚ by Walter Dean Myers‚ Steve Harmon is on trial for felony murder. I believe that Steve Harmon is innocent because he didn’t know Bobo Evans‚ the store wasn’t clear‚ and there was no signal. The first reason why Steve Harmon is innocent because Steve did not know Bobo Evans. For example‚ in the novel Monster‚ by Walter Dean Myers‚ writes‚ “Did you talk to Steve Harmon… No… But you had not spoken to Mr. Harmon prior to
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“The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic‚’ who are glad to be what they are.” - Isabel Briggs Myers (goodreads). MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator‚ Myers Briggs Testing Instrument) is a personality assessment that was based off of the Jungian typology theory created by Carl Jung. Isabel Briggs Myers is the one responsible for this assessment‚ and the one responsible for my ungodly obsession with it. It was my Junior year in Psychology and our teacher‚ Mrs. Mais‚ took us into
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James Dean was born on February 8‚ 1931‚ at the Seven Gables apartment house located at the corner of 4th Street and McClure Street in Marion‚ Indiana‚ to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. Six years after his father had left farming to become a dental technician‚ James and his family moved to Santa Monica‚ California. He was enrolled at Brentwood Public School in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles‚ but transferred soon afterward to the McKinley Elemetary school.[5] The family spent several years
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Dean Winchester The actor who plays the character Dean Winchester from Supernatural portrays the definition of “cool”. He wears his collar popped up; he drives a cool sports cars. He is a natural ladies man. He always knows what to say. He has the angry side where he is like the big man on campus‚ and if you don’t do it his way he will force it out of you. He is portrayed as the strong but occasionally sensitive type. He strongly believes in family bonds; which you can see through his emotions when
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“Beyond simple sensations of pain and pleasure‚ we tend to think of emotions as crucial ingredients for being a person” (221). Emotions are a way of defining the uniqueness of human beings. Certain emotions can relate us to abstract things like monsters such as‚ watching horror films. For example‚ out of all the genres of horror films‚ audiences are more attracted to slasher films—“hardly seen killer‚ an atmospheric place where the murderer occurs‚ a ‘final girl’ (usually the most attractive female
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Statement I think James Dean is important because he is one of the best actors that has ever lived and he shows that if you work hard at what you want to do‚ you can succeed. He was great at sports and worked hard to become a good actor. He wasn’t perfect at acting but he took his criticism the right way and used it to grow and become a better actor. He didn’t always have good times and he struggled a lot but in the end he had the success he deserved. Background 1) At a young age Dean was learning about
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