Fiction
By: Mike • Essay • 329 Words • January 3, 2010 • 689 Views
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There are many books that teach many lessons and a great plot. In the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers is a great book that shows a great lesson that takes affect in everyday life. Walter Dean Made a great novel that emphasizes life everyday.
Monster is about a young man named Steve Harmon. Steve is a 16-year-old boy who tries to fit in, in Harlem New York. Steve helps 2 robbers rob a store and the 2 robbers shoot the storeowner. Steve then gets arrested and brought in front of a jury deciding weather or not he is guilty. He gets held in a detention center and every night he writes in his journal as a movie or play about what is going on in the trial. Through the whole book the flash back to scenes of how it leads up to the murder and they bring in different witnesses.
I think that monster is a great book. I think it is a great book because it haves action, a great plot, and it applies to everyday life. I also like this book because Walter writes the book like a real boy was talking with all the slang