Myers subtly draws a distinction between legal guilt and moral guilt through the actions and emotional state of each character involved in the trial. The core themes of this novel address justice, institutional racism, deception, guilt, and the effects of peer pressure. ![]() A teenager named Steve Harmon finds himself on trial, facing the death penalty, for being the "lookout" during what turned out to be a lethal burglary. ![]() Sometimes, a small choice has monstrous consequences, and there's no better example of this predicament than the story told in Walter Dean Myers's award-winning novel Monster.
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