Literary Analysis Point of view is when a reader can know the thoughts, actions, and words from someone’s perspective. For example, there is the first person point of view, where the narrator is the one telling the story from his or her point of view. In the story “Why, You Reckon?” by Langston Hughes, the narrator is telling the story in first person, from his point of view. The narrator tells the reader about his actions, the words he says, and even what he thinks as he relays what happened to him, a stranger he encounters, and an innocent young man. In “Why, You Reckon?”…
Monster by Walter Dean Myers is a book about a 16-year-old boy who is an African-American and is on trial for felony murder when a drug store holdup has gone down with James King and other Witnesses including Osvaldo Cruz and Richard “Bobo” Evans. In this book, we go on a crazy adventure on how to get Steve and others out of jail with the help of the powerful voices of Kathy O'Brien, Steve’s lawyer And Asa Brigg, James King's…
Theme Statement In the book Monster by Walter Myers the theme is if you hang around bad people you should expect and accept the consequences. Steve chooses to associate with people who are known to make bad choices. The consequence of him doing this is him getting blamed for being part of the crime of robbing Mr. Nesbitt’s store as well as killing him even though he wasn't a part of it, he was a bystander. Meyers demonstrates how Steve's actions affect his fate especially when he writes “O’Brien (from her chair): Mr. Evans, when did you have a conversation with Mr. Harmon about this robbery?…
It is odd to see an author propose a topic that contradicts his or her writing choice and beliefs , to path readers on a trail of uncertainty, doubt, and speculation. Many would find it peculiar to pose an argument on oneself; however, Jeffrey Cohen does exactly this to the readers of his essay “monster culture”. Cohen sends his readers on a crumbling path of ambiguity when he asks readers a question that puts his readers either at one end of the path or the other asking if monsters truly exist. In Cohen’s “monster culture”, monsters and culture are discussed and speculated on to bring to light the connections between them. “What I will propose here by way of a first foray, as entrance into this book of monstrous content, is a sketch of a new modus legendi: a method of reading cultures from the monsters they engender,” he starts (11).…
C. Main Point #3 1 . A . Frankenstien’s creature was physicaly , thougt not intentionally, made to kill. B . Victor Frankenstein made his creature of corpes , or dead people .…
Walter Dean Myers' graphic novel Monster is about a sixteen-year-old African American boy named Steve Harmon, This graphic novel is written in a first person perspective from Steve's view. He shows himself through his journal entries and a screenplay. In this book, the protagonist’s are Kathy O’Brien, Mr. Sawicki, and Steve Harmon. The antagonists are the justice system, Richard Evans or more commonly known “bobo”, James King, the Assistant District Attorney (Sandra Petrocelli) and Steve King's lawyer Asa Briggs. The story takes place in Manhattan, Harlem, the courtroom in a city lockup, and sometimes in the neighborhood where Steve Harmon lives.…
Summary: Monster Theory In the first few lines of this article Jeffery Jerome Cohen, declares that he is creating a new “modus legendi”. That is, he is creating a new method of studying cultures from the monsters they engender (Cohen 3). He is ready to go against how cultural studies have been done in the past and form a new way of thinking and studying culture. Cohen goes one to make a few more comments on culture and history.…
In “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” Jeffery Cohen explains the concept that he calls “monster culture”. Cohen introduces his topic with concepts of monsters being something not affected by time, and that there has been a tendency for hybrid monsters due to generational behavior. In the article Cohen uses his seven theses to convey his thoughts, each pertaining to a different aspect of his “monster culture.” Thesis one is used to portray his outlook on cultural influence on the monster.…
Victor brought the creature out of the town before everyone else was up and out in the town to make sure he did not frighten the people. He took him through the woods and brought him to a creek. Victor caught a couple of fish to show the creature. Victor made a fire next to the creek and cooked the fish for the monster to sample. The creature was fascinated by the fire.…
In the book Monster written by Walter Dean Meyer, Steve Harmon, a 16 year old black boy, is by going a trial determining if he will spend his life in jail or not. Steve’s outcome of the trial was not guilty with which many would most likely not agree with. In what was supposed to be just a robbery turned into the murdering of Nesbitt, the murder with which Steve was allegedly the look out for the whole thing. Most believe he is guilty, but not on the account of murder just on the robbery. He knew all along that the robbery was going to happen and he could have done something to prevent it from even happening.…
In Sanyika Shakur’s memoir, Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, the audience follows the events that transform Monster Kody Scott into Sanyika Shakur. While writing his memoir from prison, the book starts in 1975 with his graduation from elementary school and initiation into the Crips. His initiation included a brutal beating from fellow Crips members, which immediately followed his first gang shooting against the Bloods. At the age of thirteen, Kody Scott earned the nickname “Monster” due to his violent acts committed against a victim. In 1978, Monster describes himself as having “ambition, vitality, and ruthlessness” in order to build his reputation and define himself as an individual.…
In his writing, “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen argues that we no longer live in an age that uses Unified Theory, an age when we realized that history is composed of a multitude of fragments. In this writing, he has bound some fragments together to form a “monstrous body” and pushes his readers to reevaluate their cultural assumptions relating to those specific fragments. In his first thesis, “The Monster’s Body is a Cultural Body” Cohen explains that each monster has a certain culture and follows certain rules. The monsters are typically born within a certain cultural moment.…
In "Seven Monster Theses", Jeffery Cohen develops an idea that “monsters” are essential to society. In fact, they construct what is “normal”, “rational”, and “civilized”. Specifically, “monsters” are foundational to how we view ourselves. “Monsters” contain all the traits deemed unacceptable and odd. It can be concluded that every outlier is a “monster”.…
He just does not seem to accept that by concealing his fear will result in painful inner conflict, and that is the main message trying to show when Conor and the Monster meet for the first time. When they meet, Conor is not really scared of this monster because Conor knows his fear is much scarier than some tree monster, this monster mentions "You really aren't afraid are you?" (Ness 16). In response Conor says, "No, not of you anyway" (Ness 16). Conor tells the monster he is not but does not mention what exactly scares, that shows his conflict.…
Why do we as a people fear monsters and similar entities? Throughout history people have created stories centered around monsters who would terrorize communities. These stories would be used to rationalize findings they couldn’t understand. These monsters were used to rationalize dieses, deaths and many other occurrences. These monsters still persist in stories today because over time they would evolve past what they stood for and would become symbols of our primal fears.…