Walter Dean Myers Monster Research Papers

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MONSTER Monster is the popular book, particularly in school. This classic beloved story was written by Walter Dean Myers and it's about Steve Harmon on trial for his life. But throughout the book, Steve's parents still love him. In this world, parents love is so strong even they don't trust their child or the child has done something bad. Parents have strong emotion for their child. Parents always help their child to achieve their goals in life but parents don't want to their child go on wrong track. But if the child goes on the wrong path, parents always rescue their child to get back on right track. In the book, We see that Steve's parents help him to get out from the situation and they never lose their hope that he is guilty. It shows that how much parents love their child even anything happened to their child. Parents always see their child as innocent even they know that he did something wrong. …show more content…

Without parents, the child is nothing in this world. Parents start doing love their child when the child is born and they are still love child their whole life. A parent always with their child even they get older. For The Parents, the child is always child even they grow up and married. Steve's parents crying and his dad feel that he is guilty but they didn't lose Steve's hand alone or they didn't break a relationship with Steve. This shows that how much parents love their child. Parents always love their child even child's friend leave their friendship or leave their hand

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