#Monster walter dean myers online movie#

Paulsen recalls personal experiences that he incorporated into Hatchet (1987) and its three sequels, from savage attacks by moose and mosquitoes to watching helplessly as a heart-attack victim dies.

The format of this taut and moving drama forcefully regulates the pacing breathless, edge-of-the-seat courtroom scenes written entirely in dialogue alternate with thoughtful, introspective journal entries that offer a sense of SteveвЂ™s terror and confusion, and that deftly demonstrate MyersвЂ™s point: the road from innocence to trouble is comprised of small, almost invisible steps, each involving an experience in which a вЂњpositive moral decisionвЂќ was not made. Although Steve is eventually acquitted, Myers leaves it up to readers to decide for themselves on his protagonistвЂ™s guilt or innocence. As he goes through his trial, returning each night to a prison where most nights he can hear other inmates being beaten and raped, he reviews the events leading to this point in his life.

Steve is accused of being an accomplice in the robbery and murder of a drug store owner.

#Monster walter dean myers online movie#

In a riveting novel from Myers (At Her MajestyвЂ™s Request, 1999, etc.), a teenager who dreams of being a filmmaker writes the story of his trial for felony murder in the form of a movie script, with journal entries after each dayвЂ™s action.