I’ll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. I’ll write it down in the notebook they let me keep. The morally complex story is enhanced by Peter Francis James compelling narration. By: Walter Dean Myers The film will be the story of my life.

Walter Dean Myers has written a riveting, thought-provoking drama that is sure to inspire discussion among young adults. As the trial progresses, Steve is forced to take a hard look at himself and the choices he's made as he contemplates spending the rest of his life behind bars. The title for his movie comes from the word the prosecution uses to describe him: monster. Monster is based on the 1999 YA novel by Walter Dean Myers, which follows a high school honor student (Harrison) who faces prison time following his alleged peripheral involvement in a. In an attempt to cope with the brutality and degradation of jail and the helplessness he feels at the trial, Steve writes down his experiences and feelings as though it were the script for a movie. He's being held as an adult in a New York detention center. Accused of acting as the lookout for a drug store robbery in which the owner was killed, Steve finds his world turned upside down.

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