Although Myers always has his teen audience in mind, he never talks down to them, and even though Monster features a discussion of some “edgy” content (uh…prison rape) it’s always purposeful to the narrative and never lurid or used for the sake of crude shock value. Hinton, Robert Cormier, and Judy Blume), and Monster is written to appeal to high school kids. Walter Dean Myers ( Scorpions, Fallen Angels) is one of the founding writers of the YA movement that emerged in the early seventies (other writers include S.E.
These handwritten passages introspectively contextualize the rest of the narrative, which is composed of Steve’s screenplay of the events of the trial. To avoid the intensity of his situation, he writes a diary where he records his feeling. Steve, a sensitive kid from a stable home, despises the violence and cruelty of jail and feels utterly alienated from the reality of his trial. Before he wound up in jail, Steve attended Stuyvesant High School, where he excelled in his film class. In fact, he didn’t even send a signal of any kind, he just walked out of the store. Only Steve wasn’t in the store at the time of the robbery/murder–he was playing the role of the lookout. He participated in a robbery that went bad when the store owner was killed with his own gun. In Walter Dean Myer’s Monster, sixteen year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for felony murder in New York City.
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