MONKEYMAN LETTER

DEAR WALTER DEAN MYERS

MY REACTION TO THE STORY MONKEYMAN WAS THAT I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A REALLY GREAT STORY. AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT HOW A MAN LIKED MONKEYS ALOT. BUT AS I STARTED TO READ IT I REALIZED THAT IT WAS NOTHING LIKE THAT. IT WAS ABOUT A BOY NAMED MONKEYMAN HE WAS VERY ILLTELEGENT. HE LIVED IN HARLEM AND HATED IT. HE LIKED TO READ AND JUST REALAX. HE WAS NOT LIKE THOSE OTHER BOYS WHO ARE INTO GANGS AND STUFF. THEY CALLED HIM MONKEYMAN BECAUSE HE USED TO SIT IN THE TREE AND JUST READ HIS BOOK. EVERY ONE KNEW MONKEYMAN AND NEVER REALLY MESSED WITH HIM. BUT THEN ONE DAY HE GOT INTO SOME TROUBLE WITH A GANG CALLED TIGROS BECAUSE HE DIDNT MIND HIS BUISNESS. AFTER I READ THIS PART I STARTING TO THINK ON MY GOD WHAT ARE THE TIGROS THINKING OF DOING TO THIS BOY. IT WAS SOO SAD THAT I DIDNT WANT TO READ IT ANYMORE. BUT THEN MONKEYMAN CAME TO A DECISION WHICH WASNT A VERY GOOD ONE. BUT WHEN I CONTINUED READING THE BOOK I REALIZED WHY HE MADE THAT DECISION. MY FAVORITE PARTS OF THE BOOK IS WHEN MONKEYMAN SAW THE LADY TIGROS ABOUT TO CUT PEACHES AND THEN HE RAN OVER TO THEM AND KNOCKED THE KNIFE OUT OF THEIR HANDS. ANOTHER ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS IS WHEN MONKEYMAN TOLD CLEAN AND THE TIGROS TO MEET HIM IN THE PARK. WHEN I READ THIS I THOUGHT WAS HE GOING TO GET REVENGE? OR WAS HE GOING TO TELL THEM TO MEET HIM THERE AND NOT SHOW UP. I REALIZED THAT MONKEYMAN HAD ALOT OF HEART TO STEP UP TO THE TIGROS AND CLEAN AND THEN ACTUALLY SHOW UP AT THE PARK.

MONSTER PAGE 1-148

IN THE BOOK MOSTER, THEY SAY THAT STEVEN IS TOO PART IN THE CRIME OF ROBBING THE DRUG STORE. DO YOU THINK THIS IS TRUE? DO YOU BELIEVE THAT HE IS NOT GUILTY??

HOMEWORK READING RESPONSE QUESTION

FEBRUARY 4 2009
Title: MONSTER Genre:REALISTIC FICTION
Author WALTER DEAN MYERS
Starting page:88 ending page:171
Reading Response Question #10

Response
WHATS CONFUSING ABOUT THE BOOK IS THAT WHY DONT THEY JUST LET STEVEN GO. THEY KEEP BRINGING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE INTO THE CRIME AND CANT PLEAD HIM GUILTY. THEY KEEP SAYING OTHER PEOPLE DID IT SO WHY NOT JUST LET HIM GO. THEY KEEP FINDING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE THAT WAS CAUGHT DURING THE ROBBERY OF THE DRUG STORE. FIRST THEY SAY IT WAS STEVEN THEN THEY IT WAS TWO OTHER PEOPLE. LIKE WHEN ARE THEY JUST GOING TO PROVE WHO DID IT OR NOT. LIKE THEY SHOULD JUST PROVE WHO IS GUILTY AND WHO IS INOCCENT. THEY SHOULDNT HAVE STEVEN STAYING IN JAIL FOR SOMETHING HE DIDNT DO. WELL HE SAYS HE DIDNT DO IT AND BELIEVE HIM. BUT THEY SHOULD JUS LET HIM GO UNTIL THEY KNOW WHO REALLY DID IT. SO THEY SHOULD JUST GO BY THE EVIDENCE THEY HAVE NOW AND KEEP IT AT THAT.

MONSTER PAGE 1-25

SO FAR IN THE BOOK ' MONSTERS' BY WALTER DEAN MYERS I READ HOW 16 YEAR OLD STEVE HARMON GOES TO JAIL FOR COMMITING A CRIME. STEVE SEEMS TO HATE THE JAIL PLACE. HE JUST CANT STAND IT. HE SAYS THAT HE IS SO BORED IN THAT PLACE AND HE WISHES HE WAS BACK HOME. HE CANT EVEN USE THE BATHROOM BECAUSE IF HE DO HE HAS TO USE IT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. THE WAY HE EXPLAINS THE JAIL PLACE IT SOUNDS LIKE HE ENTERTED DEATH. HE SAYS THAT IT IS ALWAYS FIGHTS AND MEN GETTING SEXUALLY HARRASSED. HE ALSO EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENS IN COURT. RIGHT NOW IN THE BOOK THEY ARE TRYING TO PROVE HIM INNOCENT. THE JUDGE IS BASICALLY TRYING FIGURE OUT WHO ROBBED THE DRUG STORE AND KILLED THE CLERK. EVEYTIME STEVE GOES TO COURT IT SEEMS TO BE THE SAME THING. HE ENDS UP GOING BACK TO THE CELL IN THE JAIL THAT HE HATES THE MOST. SO SINCE STEVE IS VERY UPSET ABOUT BEING THERE HE BEGINS TO RIGHT A BOOK ABOUT HIS LIFE. WELL HIS EXPERIENCE. HE SAID HE WILL CALL IT WHAT THE LADY WHO IS THE PROSECUTER CALLED HIM. WHICH IS MONSTER.