Monster Summary
Walter Dean Myers

Everything you need to understand or teach Monster by Walter Dean Myers.

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30 Monster Lessons
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Monster Summary

Monster is presented as a screenplay, with handwritten comments, by the main character Steve Harmon. Steve says that he is writing the screenplay to keep his sanity while being held in prison during his trial for murder. "I am so scared. My heart is beating like crazy and I am having breathing trouble," he writes. "The trouble I'm in keeps looking bigger and bigger. I'm overwhelmed by it. It's crushing me." In a...

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Encyclopedia Articles (2)

Monsters

3,661 words, approx. 13 pages

Monsters MONSTERS. Strictly speaking, a monster is a mythical being and may be human or animal or a combination of both; it may be huge, misshapen, or grotesque, malevolent, savage, or terrifying. Suc... Read more

Mysterious Monsters

35,179 words, approx. 118 pages

The Witch—Cat The tiny beast crouches and peers out from a tree in the night—time jungle, its huge pale eyes glowing in the moonlight. Its black fur makes it almost invisible in the darkn... Read more

Walter Dean Myers Biographies (1)

Walter Dean Myers

1,847 words, approx. 7 pages

Although Walter Dean Myers has published articles and short stories in the Liberator, Black World, and Black Arts South , his primary achievement is the juvenile books in which he attempts to touch th... Read more

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