Murder On A Sunday Morning Summary

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Staring Monster, and “Murder on a Sunday Morning,” if you want to find out what the book “Monster” and the documentary “Murder On a Sunday Morning” are about then you should probably go to the library and get the book, and rent the documentary. Once you start reading the book Monster you wont want to stop, and once you start watching the documentary “Murder On A Sunday Morning” you will be just like a couch potato some one will have to come pry you off of your couch. Trust me when I say you will be a couch potato then I mean you will be a couch potato. I think that you will love the documentary “ Murder On A Sunday Morning,” and the book staring Walter Dean Myers “Monster.” This book and documentary will leave you on the edge of you seat, because their is so much thrill and excitement. One thing will happen and then the book will stop right then and there, you will have to start a new chapter to get to the good stuff. Same with eh documentary you will get to a certain part of the movie and then all of the sudden another thrill pops up and …show more content…

For killing a man named Alguinado Nesbitt, and sticking up a Drug store. Steve is a young, black male, in the jury’s eyes Steve Harmon is going to be guilty because of his skin color, at which the jury is prejudice.While Steve spends his time in jail, he has a journal that he writes in. Its about the time that he is spending in jail, and what is going on in prison. At the end of the trial Steve kept on telling himself that he is a Monster. Even Steve’s lawyer Miss O’Brien believed that Steve was guilty, Petrocelli is against Steve and is trying to make Steve look bad in the juries eyes, and that he was apart of the stick up and shooting of Alguinado Nesbitt. Steve Harmon on trial for a felony murder its your decision to read the book and find out if he is guilty or not guilty.Read the book Monster by Walter Dean

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