Steve Harmon: Monster By Walter Dean Owners Called Monster

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Calling someone a monster is very ignominious and can hurt and can demote a person’s feelings. Steve Harmon was an innocent teenager. But he is not; he is a monster in the novel by Walter Dean Myers called Monster. Steve is called monster several times. His family and his lawyer don’t even know who he is anymore. He is treated as a monster and represents a monster in the case. Steve is called monster many times. In the first couple of scenes he believes that he is a monster and will never become a human ever again. Mrs. Petrocelli called a significant name which Steve then notes in his notebook, “I’ll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me… MONSTER” (Myers 5). The author then writes, “He is writing the word Monster over and

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