Monster By Walter Dean Myers Character Analysis

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Can you have a verdict of being innocent but still be known as guilty as stated by the judge? When would the judge announce that someone is guilty after been “proven” innocent? Innocence might seem really simple, but it really isn’t. For example when you play with your sibling and don’t do anything wrong. While meantime you know you are innocent and your parents believe your sibling? Sometimes we are blamed for things we don’t do, even by those we trust? One way or the other, guilt is when you feel regretful of doing something wrong and innocence is when you know and believe that what you did was the right thing. In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, we have a 16 year old named Steven Harmon, seen as a monster by the prosecutor, who is on trial …show more content…
In his mind, he questions himself if he is a monster, this affects him a lot throughout the trial. “When they were passing them to the jury I didn’t look at them” (91). Basically, Steve cannot resist looking at himself because of the point of view he has towards himself which is calling him a monster, he feels guilty for what has happened in the past. This happens very often throughout the book and when he does have to look at them, “What was I doing? What was I thinking?” this really affects him because he just regrets doing it in the first place. Thus, no matter if Steve has a verdict of being innocent in my eyes he will always be …show more content…
I just said run. You should’ve run” (43) this shows during the conversation he changed the topic since he knew that they would prove him guilty. As well as when Steve flashbacks towards the end and watches television at home with his mom in page 125 “What do you mean don’t worry about it, when you are handcuffing my son?.... “There is panic in her eyes as she looks at STEVE, who looks away” (125). This reveals that Steve knows he was part of the crime and when his mom asked him he was speechless just acting like he had no idea about what was going one. When Petrocelli states her closing statement I agree with her fairly since she states that Steve “is guilty a guilty as everybody else, no matter how many moral hairs he can split,”( 262). Basically, Steve is guilty with anything that he
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