Characters
The 16-year-old on trial for murder.
Who is Steve Harmon?
The state the book takes place in.
What is New York?
The type of conflict seen when James King tries to intimidate Steve during the trial.
What is person vs. person?
A connection between Steve's feelings of boredom in jail and your feelings of boredom in school.
What is a text-to-self connection?
The number of stomachs a cow has.
What is four?
The prosecution attorney.
Who is Sandra Petrocelli?
The decade the book takes place in.
What is the 1990s?
The type of conflict seen when Steve questions if he truly is a monster.
What is person vs. self?
A connection between Steve's trial and a trial of another teenager that you heard about it in the news.
What is a text-to-world connection?
The country where Elon Musk was born.
What is South Africa?
The defense attorney.
Who is Kathy O'Brien?
The location where the crime occurred.
What is Mr. Nesbitt's convenience store?
The type of conflict seen when Steve's father expresses his regret at his son's circumstances.
What is person vs. person?
A connection between Steve's circumstance and the circumstances of the Central Park 5?
What is a text-to-world connection?
The strongest human muscle.
What is the jaw?
The co-defendent.
Who is James King?
The location where majority of the conflict and plot unfold.
What is the courtroom?
The type of conflict seen when Kathy tells Steve that the jury only sees him as "young, black, and on trial."
Person vs. society
A connection between a conflict in Monster and a conflict in To Kill a Mockingbird.
What is a text-to-text connection?
The capital of Ireland.
What is Dublin?
The witness who found the body.
Who is Jose Delgado?
The location of several flashbacks that helps create contrast between Steve's past and present.
What is the highschool?
The type of conflict shown when the neighbours discuss the murder of Mr. Nesbitt and the growing rates of violence in the neighbourhood.
What is person vs. society?
A connection between Steve's diary entries and my own diary entries.
What is a text-to-self connection?
The number of dots on a single die.
What is 21?