Walter Dean Myers Monster Character Analysis

McKinley Meggison

Mrs.Juhas

6-7th hour

2-10-23

Steve is a monster.

You are a murderer, you killed an innocent old man!!! Steve was a 16 year old boy living in New York City, he had a positive vibe and liked to do photography. One day he saw there was a robbery and the owner was killed (nesbitt). About 5 months later a cop got him and he was put on trial for murder. In the novel, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, Steve Harmon was a good person because he cared for others and he wanted the world to be a better place.

Steve was a good person because he cared about everyone.During my quote Steve is in a jail cell,he starts to think about jerry. He says he missed Jerry and he wished he was there with him but not in jail.The author wrote, “I wish

While Steve was watching the news, he saw pictures on the tv and he felt disturbed. The pictures were nesbitt dead. Nesbitt owned a drug store, the drug store was robbed and during the robbery he was shot and killed. He ended up dying by his lungs filling up with blood and drowning in his own blood. The book says, “He is very much involved with depicting his neighborhood and environment in a positive manner.”’ (Myers 235)This proves Steve is a good person because he still cares about if people die,nesbitt and him were not even close and he felt upset about what happened to him. He was disturbed that people would do that to an old man that worked his whole life just to get that drug store. It made him feel sick to his stomach and felt like humanity was falling. Furthermore,During this, Jerry and Steve were on the couch watching tv, Jerry said that they should be superheroes and help people. Steve said that would be cool because he could help people when they need help, when they are hurt, and when they are in danger. The author wrote,“‘ I bet you'd be a cool super hero. You know who you should be … batman. Then I could be robin’’’ (Myers 58). This shows Steve is a good person because he shows that he wants to help strangers or anyone. A normal murderer wouldn't wanna help anyone if they are in danger they would just try to save themselves.he is also willing to just risk his life for a

But just because he was a bad person it doesn’t mean that he was one. He could’ve just done what he wanted and not what his friends were doing. However, the people who he hung out with didn’t make Steve a bad person too. Therefore,Steve was a good person. Steve was a good person because he was not guilty. At the end of the trial, the jury made their decision.The author wrote, “The guards who were standing behind Steve moved away from him. He has been found not guilty.” (Myers 276).Steve being a good person has better reasons than him being a bad person because one of the reasons for him being a bad person was because he was friends with bad people. Just because he is friends with bad people doesn't mean he does the same stuff as them. This made him a good person because 12 people all had to agree he didn’t do the