Overall I really enjoyed the novel and Steve's journey to freedom. I feel as though school readings and novels often are more geared towards female audiences, however this novel had a reoccurring theme of "confused male teen" that so many high schoolers deal with. The imagery Myers uses is great for teaching in high school, and also a book boys can enjoy. I felt like it brought the novel to a close on a high note, and allowed us to relate to being accused of something we did not do. By the groundbreaking author of the award-winning Monstera visionary who influenced and inspired a generationthis story take us back to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places.Curtis finds love in Iraq as he strugg. I was relieved to see the novel ended with Steve's freedom.
Reading age : 13 - 17 years Lexile measure : GN420L Grade level. It came to a point where Steve wasn't really sure whether or not he truly was a monster. : Monster: A Graphic Novel: 9780062274991: Myers, Walter Dean, Sims.
Name calling can cause so many internal injuries and scars with oneself. Steve was called a "monster" by the prosecutor which really hit home for him. I also liked the addition of flashbacks in the novel, as I do in any novel because they give such great insight as to what lead to the current predicament or state of thinking. By using different fonts/handwriting, it broke up the story and made it easier to understand an read, while differentiating what we were reading about. I really enjoyed this book for multiple reasons, the first being the style in which it was written.
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, was an amazing story of identity, racism, and the law.