Steve Harmon's point of view

In Monster the Steve Harmon is the main point of view in this story. The story is written in Steve Harmon’s point of view.  From this perspective, a lot of events and characters are described in a way that creates Steve’s mother to be sad that he has to go through this even though he is innocent. Fear is running through his mind as he is a suspect of the murder of the clerk and the robbing of the drug store.

One way that Steve Harmon’s point of view influences the reader's interpretation is how this perspective describes how he is innocent. When Steve says he is innocent and it’s kind of hard to believe him because he is an acquaintance with King. King is the man who shot the drug store clerk and he also robed the drug store. A little before the robbing of the drug store and the murder of the drug store clerk, a man saw him walk out of the drug store and he was a suspect.

However, the reader would feel a lot differently about Steve Harmon if the novel was written in the point of view of Petrocelli. For instance, the reader would react if she said that Steve was guilty without an explanation. They would most likely be confused because they would not know what was going on in the story without an explanation from Petrocelli

As you can see, the point of view of a story forces the reader to see just one side of an event or topic. In Monster, the narrator's perspective makes the reader feel that Steve is innocent. In the end of the story Steve Harmon is innocent

Book Vs. Movie

 Authors Note: This piece is the comparisons and differences between a book and a movie.

Imagine when people used to ride horses for transportation, or used candles to light there house at night. That is how it is in the movie The Patriot. and in the book Give Me Liberty. There are many things that you can compare and contrast between the movie and book.

One of the first things that are the same is it is based around the same time in the movie and book. 1775–1783 was the time of the revolutionary war which is the time setting in both the story and movie. In Give me Liberty they talk of the war and how it works and The Patriot shows it. The biggest topic they bring up all the time between both of them is war, but they also have many differences too.

A difference between the movie and the book is they have different point of views. It is different in the book it’s a first person point of view, everything is being told by a slave who is traveling with a musician. The movies point of view is a third person so you see everything that is going on. Sense the story is told by a young kid he does not know as much so it does not talk about slavery as much.

In the movie it talks about slavery and shows them and free used to be slaves. The books talks about slaves and how the character is a slave, but does not talk about any free slaves. Both books talk about how if slaves join the war they will have their freedom given to them.

In conclusion they both have many things alike, but also has just as many different things. So they both have slaves that will be granted freedom. They are based in the same time, and talks about war a lot of the time.

Michael Oher: Prediction piece

I predict that Michael Oher will have a successful time of getting in college but first he will have to get his grades up. I think Michael will be able to get into college and play football because he is actually a really smart person when he tries.  All he needs is a tutor for a couple subjects and he will be able to get his grades up very fast.

He will also have a successful time in a football career because his new family got him into football. A football coach for a college saw him play in a video and said he was a very good player. So that coach showed the video to other coaches and they said we are going to try to get him on their team. But to do that he has to get his grades up.

During the book people were being racist towards him. In the beginning of the book he was playing basketball and some kids were making racist jokes about Michael and he flipped them off. Also closer to the end some more kids were making racist jokes about him again. Michael pushed him into a bookshelf.

My prediction was the Michael was going to have a successful time in college and football. Further in the book you will learn that he did have a successful career in football and he did get into a college. This was based on a true story. This story was a great but sad story.