Steve Goes To Or Stays Out Of Jail By Walter Dean Myers

Monster by Walter Dean Myers, the author tells a story in the first person names steve. Steve was being accused of being the lookout and killing a man for the during a robbery. Steve was the lookout but wasn’t responsible for the murder of Mr. Nesbitt. Steve was the lookout during the robbery. One reason Steve the lookout was because BOBO identifies him in the court.

Name: Gisselle Ramirez Who done it? One event that devastated many. In the historical non-fiction book Chasing Lincoln’s killer by James L.. Swanson, Booth has many accomplices. An accomplice is a person who helps another commit a crime, which in this case it’s Samuel Mudd and Mary Surratt who had helped John Wilkes Booth assassinate Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.

The book that I read is called LockDown By Walter Dean Myers. Walter Dean Myers is known for writing fiction,nonfiction, and poetry books for young adults and children. He is a New York Times bestselling author and the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family.

Steve James graduated from Southern Illinois college; he lost contact with Stevie, ten years later he went back to Pomona, Illinois to search for Stevie. Steve decided to make a documentary about what is happening with Stevie and what ever happen to the little boy he once knew. Steve was his sponsor in the Big Brothers program; he recognized that Stevie was always a “troubled” youth. Stevie mother, Bernice father was an alcoholic and abused his children while they lived in the “back hills of West Virginia” (S James, 2002). Bernice didn’t want Stevie when she found out that she was pregnant with a married man’s child.

It is natural for people to categorize and judge others. In terms of judgement, people often rely on different ideas and stereotypes that affect their opinions and may twist their perceptions of justice and how it should be dealt. In the books, Monster by Walter Dean Myers and The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, justice is heavily influenced by prejudice demonstrated by people judging others based on race, wealth, and social group stereotypes. Initially, the idea of justice is affected by racial stereotypes and prejudice.

The document I chose to write about is called, Mexico: Los Zetas Drug Cartel Linked San Fernando Police to Migrant Massacres edited by Michael Evans. This document links the San Fernando Police case to the Ayotzinapa case. The similarity between these two cases is that the police is in collaboration with the drug cartels in taking parts of these kidnaps and killings. The facts of the San Fernando Police case are that 72 migrants were removed from an intercity bus in San Fernando and then were executed. The facts of the Ayotzinapa case are that 43 students disappeared and six were killed from Ayotzinapa Normal School.

Stolen Lives 2.8 million Jews were killed in Poland. All were numbed with terror and fear of what would happen next. Pause and think for a moment. What did they feel? What did they fear?

I believe that Steve Harmon is innocent. There are many reasons to believe this. For one “bobo” Evans placed him at the crime scene but Mr. Evans and Mr. King according to Mr. Evans testimony were on drugs. So Steve Harmon could have just happened to be their. Since both Mr. Evans and Mr. King were on drugs i don’t believe that their statements are valid.

If you were blamed for a crime you didn’t do, would you let that accusation go and let it tarnish your reputation? Would you let it fly by and have others judge from every angle? No, right? Normally people who get accused of crimes demand justice as they know they did not commit the crime and only justice can give them the freedom they deserve. But let’s look at Steve Harmon, the main character from the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers who was on trial for murder.

Therefore, Steve is showing negativity. He is using a negative derogatory towards himself and the life he is living, or at least for the time being. Steve also shows signs of being negative by writing in his notes, “I wanted to be away from this place” (Myers 130). He hates jail and he does not want to be there anymore.

He depends on others to bring clarity to his mind, such as saying, “What did I do?”. After the session at court was finished, Steve was insecure about what Ms. O’Brien, his lawyer, thinks of him. He writes an entry about it: “Who was Steve Harmon? I wanted to open my shirt and tell her to look into my heart to see who I was, who the real Steve Harmon”(92). During the trial, Ms. O’Brien stays distant from him.

According to chapter five in “Cop in the Hood” written by Peter Moskos, he points out various reason how 911 is a joke and how calling 911 is not any help to the community. Whenever there is a drug incident in the community the patrol officers totally ignore the situation. And even if the patrol officer does address the situation the patrol officer never handle the drug dealers correctly. For instance, Moskos mentioned that a resident of the neighborhood saw three youth out on a late school night doing what seemed to be suspicious business on the corner and which lead the resident to call 911 on the youths. When 911 arrived at the scene, they instantly began to harass the three young men.

“Don 't be afraid of losing people. Be afraid of losing yourself by trying to please everyone around you. "~ Lewis Howes. In the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers, we are introduced to Steve Harmon, a sixteen-year-old dark-skinned boy who is the narrator of the book.

Steve was in his cell writing in his journal. The book said, “We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.” (Myers 203).This shows he is a monster because he is doubting himself the whole time throughout his journal. The quote was basically saying how Steve thinks that he is lying to the court which he is but he doubts himself for lying, and he is saying how maybe people are in jail because they lie to people to court or even to themselves.

Perceptions from others can be cruel. Criminals are often thought of negatively by themselves and are also disrespected by others in society. The novel Monster presents the impressions people have about Steve Harmon, an accused criminal on trial for robbery and murder. Furthermore, the text explains Steve’s views of himself during and after time in prison from first person point-of-view. The novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers highlights the various perceptions that exist about an accused criminal.