When you read a book do you even pay attention to what you character actually looks like? In the book “Monster” by Walter Dean Meyer did a great job of describing what the main character Steve Harmon looks like mostly because the setting is in jail and the whole story is written out mostly as a screenplay or diary format. In his description there is a file report of his profile which tells you all about the main character. It is unclear whether he robbed the store or not.
First of all, Steve Harmon is a young sixteen year old African American teenager who got arrested for supposedly being the look-out in a robbery that took place at a local drug store in Harlem, New York ending with the clerk lying dead. Who Steve really is, not even he knows, but within the book he rediscovers his identity.
How Steve is treated is a whole other story. Think about an innocent man being accused of being a part of robbery, and even a murder. This has been really hard for Steve and even though he is the main character, being on trial is not his only role. He is a very strong person and I believe that anybody else would break down from all the pressure being such a young age. Basically the only thing that is keeping him sane at the time is writing a movie plot line on paper almost as if it were a script. This is his way of understanding and coping with everything that is happening at the time.
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