Monster
Walter Dean Myers • 1999
Devastation Rating
prison injustice literary fiction trauma
Our Take
Steve Harmon is sixteen and on trial for murder and Myers writes the whole thing as a screenplay the boy is narrating from his cell. The legal system processes him with the indifference of a machine, and the question of innocence is less important than the question of what the system does to people regardless of the answer.
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