This book Monster has focused on the theme of a teenage murder, how you life can be turn upside down by a single mistake and how racism can make your life that much harder. My perspective of this theme is that a black person has been accused of a crime because he is black, but he is innocence even if people automatically assume he is guilty. My perspective of this theme has change at the end of the book, I think that he actually committed the crime since at the end his lawyer was not happy and he wondered "What did she see?' she might have found out that he did the crime. I still think that assuming that someone is guilty because of there race is completely wrong. Even though he was proven innocent the last line of the book leaves doubt in my mind. Also i think that any one can commit a murder no matter how old they are.
The picture on the cover of the book is a mug shoot of a black person and the first sentence reads "The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help. From the cover and first sentence I can infer that a black boy has done a crime and is in jail. He faces the life changing week that will announce he's future. He knows he needs convince the judge that he is innocence and if the judge bangs he gavel and he is announced guilty he will lose everything.
From what I read the book has rolled out as I inferred. The main character has fought for his freedom and has jumped over obsticales in cou |
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