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