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.