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Troy exhibits monstrous qualities throughout the novel. He is extremely narcissistic and does things for his own gain/appeal. He abuses, manipulates, and cheats his wife who has done nothing but love, care, and give up her nature life to stand by him.

Natellie

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The boys that sexually assaulted Esperanza can be seen as monsters. Taking advantage of another human being is extremely disgusting whether they are male or female. It is inhumane. Not only that, but almost all men in the novel have zero respect for boundaries, are described negatively, and constantly cross lines that absolutely should not be crossed, ESPECIALLY when it is with children.

Natellie

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The bank portrays monstrous qualities. They take land and show absolutely no remorse for anyone. They are seemingly inhumane due to this, as well as the fact that they take peoples land and homes, forcing them to leave everything behind. The bank is cruel, evil, and has no face, like a monster. Power hungry for money, they will do whatever they have to.

Natellie

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In Sandra Cisneros House on Mango Street many of the men that Esperanza, the protagonist, meets are revealed to be monsters. Locking women inside, leaving moms to care for kids alone, being verbally abusive, and assaulting women are just some things that the men of Mango Street do.

Wil

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In August Wilsons Fences the main protagonist troy, could be described as a monster due to his ideas that if he couldn't do it than no one (his son) can. Troy failed to become a professional athlete, so when his son, Cory, had the chance he declared that his son could not be a professional athlete and that Cory would fail just like he did. This very self centered way of thinking ended up ruining troys relationships with his family. Wil

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In, The House on Mango Street, Esperanza’s life involved many monster like men who revolve around harmful actions and thoughts. The men for example, believe they can do whatever they like with Esperanza. They have no respect for her body or thoughts, resulting in their monster like characters and actions.

- Alex

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In, Fences, Troy’s past experiences and involvement in abusive actions and poor living conditions turn him into a monstrous father. His past, formed him into a tough, commanding father figure for his children which forces them to move out and dislike him. Troys’ past life, which has scared him forever, influenced his thoughts and actions against his kids, turning him into a monster.

- Alex

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In, The Grapes of Wrath, the tractors portray the bank as a monster plowing through everyone’s lives. The tractors like a monster, approach you and destroy your land, just as the bank wanted. The bank wants more and more money forcing poor families out of their houses. Although they claim they have to, they could give families a chance to leave or even move their belongings.

- Alex

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In John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, the banks are monsters to society and the locals in Oklahoma. The Great Depression causes the economy to collapse, leaving the banks nothing to do but strip the people of their houses and land. For example, the banks have caused the Joads to flee their home and look for new land in California to settle in.

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Fences’ Troy Maxson is characterized like the qualities of a monster. This is demonstrated through the way he treats his family, looking at them as less than who they really are and meant to be. He is ignorant to the fact that his family is facing the same adversity and challenges as him and verbally abuses them. In a sense, he is narcissistic and rarely considers others and their dreams. Though, he does not realize his hurtful actions and words towards his family.

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In Fences, the restriction of gender roles is an example of monstrous ideas that the characters face. Because of the system that society is built upon, gender affects the way of living in the film. Troy has the pressure on him to provide for his family and make a sufficient amount of money, which is especially hard during these times of struggle and poverty. While this is his role, his wife, Rose, stays home to take care of their children and upkeep the house. As a woman, Rose deals with a verbally abusive husband, but is required to keep a smile on her face and be strong for her family.

- Claire

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In The Grapes of Wrath, the bank is portrayed as a land-stealing monster. Along with ruthlessly taking the land from the farmers, it also has the quality of habing no face. The bank was also emotionless as it took the land. -Cat

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Troy is portrayed as a monster in Fences. He cheats on his wife and is verbally abusive towards her. He gets violent and shouts at her. These qualities make him a monster because he is so terrible to Rose. -Cat

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In Fences, Troy exhibits monstrous qualities due to the way he treats Rose and attempts to manipulate her. Troy acts as if there is no wrong in his actions and that Rose has made his life miserable.

-Ellie

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In Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Depression can be seen as a monster due to the fact that it causes the loss of homes for many families including the Joad’s, forcing them to migrate to a new area and search for new jobs.

-Ellie

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There are numerous males that get portrayed as monsters. Esperanza is sexually assaulted multiple times and all of the men involved are given scary and negative descriptions.

- Kayla

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The men in the book can be seen as monsters for their views and sense of boundaries. Esperanza’s Mexican origin is a more patriarchal society where women don’t have as much influence as the men. The men’s sense of boundaries is skewed in such a way that they believe they can approach Esperanza and kiss her if they want.

Thomas

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The tractor drivers in the book exhibit monstrous qualities such as greediness and ego. The tractor drivers get paid to force people off their land and take away their pay. Their egos justify their actions by saying it’s for their family when the others also have families to care for.

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In Sandra Cisnero’s House on Mango Street, the men of the story are generalized as monsters. One example being the man Esperanza works with who sexually assaults and takes advantage of her. In addition, Esperanza’s grandma who was known as an adventurous woman, is forced into an arranged marriage, concluding with her losing her individuality and the ability to be as adventurous as she wanted to be.

-Ellie H.

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Troy is a monster for his sense of control and egotistical views. He shows a sense of control over his son through fear and beatings. His ego makes him a monster because he can’t understand other’s pain because he only thinks of himself.

Thomas

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In the Grapes of Wrath, the people buying items from the poor farmers were monsters. They pounced on the weak, cheaply obtaining goods even though the sellers (poor farmers) desperately needed money. Instead of paying a fair price, they cheated out the farmers solely to make more of a profit when they resold the items in the Eastern United States. In this way, they are ruthless and goal-oriented. Although they are less harmful than the banks, the buyers are mini-monsters in their own right.

-London

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Steinbeck uses the plows used by the bank to show the out of control progress and the hope to replace the families living on the lots. The plows are out of control by the way they don’t stop plowing the houses in order to earn more money, no matter who it may affect. They seek to replace people by taking jobs such as farming away from the people.

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Esperanza viewed herself as a monster in some ways. She planned on being someone who would dominate, choosing to be a powerful and cruel woman when she grows up. Although this passage speaks more on gender roles, it seems she viewed her desire to not follow her gender roles as some form of wickedness. Additionally, she saw mocking her late aunt as a mortal sin, but she still did it. Because of this, she convinced herself she was evil enough to go to hell.

-London

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The main monster in the book is the bank. The bank is characterized as faceless and all powerful. Everyone is scared of it because it’s impossible to fight because it’s an entity rather than a single person. The farmers feel out of control because they don’t have the control the bank dictates everything. The bank dictates where you live, what you do for a living, and even how much money you have access to. The farmers are so scared of the bank because it’s not something you can fight.

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A monster in fences is Troy because all he ever does is beat down his son. He attempts to control his son and wife by any means necessary even violence and emotional abuse, while he holds himself above everything and thinks he deserves more and because he didn’t get what he deserved he wants to make other people feel the same. His son nor his wife have ever deserved treatment like that but he is wallowing so much in self pity he makes everyone around him miserable. He suppresses his emotions and pain and then instead of internalizing and dealing with problems he lashes out at those around him who didn’t do anything wrong.

Rebecca

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In Fences, Troy is a monster because he is controlling.

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In Fences, Troy is a monster because he is controlling.

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Troy is controlling by how he sets requirments for Cory before he can do what he loves (football) and how he tried to use violence against both Cory and Rose. Troy attempted to prevent Cory for playing football by setting multiple requirements for Cory, which would be difficult, if not impossible, to juggle. Since Cory could not complete them, Troy banned him from playing football. Even worse, Troy used violence against Rose and Cory. Troy attempted to prevent Rose from leaving by grabbing her arm hard enough to hurt, and would likely have done worse if it was not for Cory stepping in. Later on, Troy and Cory had a physical fight which led to Cory being kicked out of the house.

-London

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Steinbeck uses the fear of poverty during the Great Depression to create the monster of the bank. What makes the bank so scary is that it is faceless, it is not a singular person, but instead a corporation that terrorizes innocent victims. The unknown nature of the bank strikes fear into those who don’t want to lose everything they have. -Payton

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Troy becomes a monster when he cheats on his wife and tries to explain it away. In the yard, he attempts to defend himself and after she yells at him, he tries to grab her.

- Kayla

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The bank as well as the tractors the bank implemented are consider monsters. They are taking land away from farmers and leaving families with no income. Families are being forced out of their homes by these monsters.

- Kayla

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The tractor drivers are an example of people with monster qualities. The tractor drivers are forced to destroy, and demolish the homes and farms of many people. They did it without emotion, but destroyed the lives of so many people.

Nico

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To the Joad family and many other families in the area the bank is a monster. The bank takes and takes and takes, with no motive. Everything the bank wants to take it can, and it ruins peoples lives. The bank has no feeling, no personality, and it just takes.

Nico

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in the house on mango street, men can be seen as monstrous characters because throughout the book, Esperanza tells how random old men like to kiss her and be weird with her. This leads Esperanza to have a sort of toxic relationship and fear of men.

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In Fences by Denzel Washington, Troy portrays monstrous characteristics, by taking advantage of Gabriel’s money he receives from the government. Troy spends some of the money for himself.

-Grady

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in the grapes of wrath, the bank is a big monster. they kicked everyone out of their homes during the dust bowl and left them with no where to go.

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troy is a monster in Fences because he does not care about his son and forces him to stop playing football, even though he actually could have had a future at it. he also tells his son that he does not actually love him, he just has to take care of him because he is his son.

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In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the bank portrays monstrous characteristics by taking jobs from native farmers. The bank takes the jobs, which forces people out of their homes.

-Grady

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To the farmers the tractors and the men that control them are the monsters. The tractors have taken over their jobs. They are the villan. They take out the lov and time that the farmers have put into the land

Macey

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To the Joad family the monster is the dust bowl. It dust bowl has made it so they are unable to farm and make money to support their family. It made them move to California and has completely destroy their lives.

Macey

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In Fences, Troy displays monstrous characteristics such as anger and lies. He is shown as a monster through his adulterous actions resulting in a child. -deidre

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In the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the bank is seen as a monster when it takes jobs from farmers and forces the move to California, showing selfish and greedy characteristics.

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In The House on Mango Street the men are seen as monsters due to taking advantage of Esperanza and other girls. They sexually assault many of them which is considered a monstrous action.-Gracelyn

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The bank is a very monstrous character in the Grapes of Wrath. They are destructive and careless. this is shown because they damage homes with tractors while also just showing who is powerful. -Gracelyn

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The car dealership in the Grapes of Wrath takes advantage of customers by hiding the problems with the car from them and selling the cars for more than they’re worth. This represents multiple monstrous characteristics such as manipulation and greed.

courtney

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In Fences, directed by Denzel Washington, Troy Maxim demonstrates a stereotypical monster because of his manipulative and almost abusive behavior. Troy manipulates his wife Rose by trying the make his affair seem reasonable and fair even though it definitely is not. Troy is also has some abusive behavior but it is more of mental abuse. He continues doesn’t support his children and even tells Corey he doesn’t need to love him because all he is is a responsibility he has to take care of.

-Lexxi

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In Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck, the banks demonstrate stereotypical monstrous qualities. The banks selfishly kick people off their farms and force them to move. This causes distress between all the farmers because they are quickly and forcefully uprooted from their homes.

-Lexxi

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In John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the tractor drivers can be described as monsters. Their faceless qualities, as well as the description of them not caring about the land, further demonstrate this point of view. Additionally, Steinbeck writes that the tractor drivers are told to destroy houses for extra money. Assuming a tractor driver would willingly do this, many families would be de-homed, which would further allow for comparisons to monsters. - Griffen

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In the movie Fences, Troy is best described as a monster due to his qualities: he lies, cheats, and doesn’t recognize all his wife has done for him. Additionally, Troy cheats on his wife, Rose, with another woman, then forces Rose to take care of his child after the birth mother died during childbirth. - Griffen

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In House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, the men are shown as stereotypical monsters. They are shown as monsters because they to kiss and take advantage of Esperanza as well as other girls. The men take advantage of their beauty as well as their innocence.

-Lexxi

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In the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the tractor drivers can characterized as monsters because of their faceless and remorseless qualities. The drivers of the tractors were people without faces, meaning that they were all the same and will just be replaced if something happens. They are remorseless because of the fact that they don’t care what happens to the native people and their homes.

-Ethan

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In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, the men illustrate their monstrous qualities when they take advantage of Esperanza. The old man tried to, in a disgusting way, take advantage of her by asking for a kiss because of his birthday. The boy she was alone with at the fair also manipulated and assaulted her. Both of these men can be viewed as monsters because of what they desired from Esperanza or did to her in The House on Mango Street.

-Ethan

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The men in The House on Mango Street manipulate Esperanza by sexually assaulting her and taking advantage of her for her beauty and innocence.

Courtney

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In The House on Mango Street, Multiple men throughout the novel illustrate monstrous qualities. The men take advantage of the women for their beauty. The men hide away their wives because they are scared other men will think they are pretty. The men manipulate the women to fall under their power.

Jack

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In Fences, Troy shows monstrous characteristics as he manipulates Rose to conform to his doings. When he cheats on her with his mistress and has a baby, he manipulates her by saying how the baby is innocent and you can’t take out any anger on the baby. Troy makes Rose not have a choice and she must stay with him even though he no longer loves her

Jack

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In Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street, multiple men throughout the story can be characterized as monsters. Both the old man requesting a birthday kiss and the boy at the fair took advantage of Esperanza without her knowing it. Both characters are also manipulative, a characteristic shared with monsters in both literature and real life. - Griffen

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In Fences by August Williams to Cory, Tory is the monster in his life. Troy is in control of his life. Troy made the decision for him not to play college football for him controlling his decisions. Troy has also become a monster by  hurting Cory’s mother Rose. To Cory hurting his mother is a evil thing to do.

Macey

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In Fence, Troy uses the stereotype of being a man back then which causes him to be an image of a monster. He’s seen as very controlling towards Cory and his wife Rose. It impacts their life because he thinks he knows what’s best for others. -Gracelyn

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In Fences, directed by Denzel Washington, Troy’s manipulative actions towards Rose reflect monstrous characteristics. Troy is putting on a facade of kindness and intimacy when around Rose, all while he was having an affair with another woman.

-Grady

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In fences troy is "redeemed" about his cheating by portraying his side piece as some beautiful young girl, this suductress who tempted him, while in reality she was probably just some young gir,. Wil

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Using the stereotype that men should wear the pants and take control in the relationship, August Wilson describes how Troy takes this to the extreme. He is completely controlling over his family, because he is egotistical and believes that what he wants is more important than what the rest if the family wants -Payton

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In John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the illustration of the bank and the tractors represent the image of a monster. The tractors are driven by faceless men whose sole purpose is to destroy land. The bank takes and is stronger than the residents who live in the houses. The bank takes advantage of innocent people

Jack Zimmerman

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In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the bank exhibits the monstrous qualities of facelessness and manipulation. Like the monster Slender Man, the bank isn’t a person that can be named or detected. Even if something is done to the bank, it will just rebuild itself and keep using people for its self gain. - Ethan

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In House on Mango street the men In the book are written as monsters. The author plays off of women’s fear of being taken advantage of by men. In her neighborhood in Chicago there was lots of crime due to it being in a large city. A lot of the monsters in the book are stereotypes of different types of criminals. The men are manipulative and controlling especially with there wives and daughters.

Rebecca

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The Joad family is taken advatange of by the cars salesman because he knows how desperate they are. Unfortunately, the desperation of the time, brings out the negative characteristics of taking advantage of and manipulating the Joads. - Cat

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In The House on Mango Street, the men in Esperanza’s life are often shown as monsters through the sexual assault and violence that Esperanza faces.

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Troy demonstrates the quality of manipulation which perfectly relates to the quality of many monsters. Troy shows manipulations through the emotion and persuasive words he uses on his wife Rose. He uses this to justify the wrong doing he has done to her, and to justify the destruction on his family.

Nico

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The tractor men are encouraged to knock down houses in order to get a raise which brings out the monstrous characteristics of the men destroying each others houses.

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In John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the portrayal of wealthy landowners and their exploitation of impoverished migrant workers embodies the stereotypical image of monsters in society. These landowners, symbolizing the banking and economic elite, ruthlessly push impoverished farmers off their land, contributing to the cycle of poverty and despair faced by the Joad family and countless others. Steinbeck's powerful narrative highlights the monstrous consequences of unchecked capitalism and the dehumanizing impact it has on those struggling to survive during the Great Depression.

-Ms. Colucy