Major Characters
Steve Harmon -
He is a sixteen year
old young Black male who has been arrested for being the look-out in robbery
that goes bad and ends in a murder. He is the narrator for the story.
Kathy O’Brien -
She is Steve’s defense
attorney she distances him from the other defendants as way of getting a not
guilty verdict.
Sandra Petrocelli -
She is the Assistant
District Attorney who prosecutes the case against Steve and James King. She
labels them “monsters.” Which is where the title of the book comes from
James King -
A black man who is also
young, but older than Steve, he encourages Steve to be a part of his crew which
will rob the drugstore. He is accused of being in the drugstore, wrestling Mr.
Nesbitt for the gun, and ultimately shooting the older man to death.
Setting
The
story takes place in Manhattan and Harlem, New York City, mostly in a city
lockup, but sometimes in the neighborhood where Steve Harmon lives.
Conflict
The book consists of multiple conflicts between man vs.
man also man vs. self but I would say the main the conflict is man vs. society.
It is man vs. society because Steve is 16 years and deal with the most
frightening nature of the justice system. But could also be man vs. self because
of Steve's battle to prove his innocence within the novel.
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