Monster by Nalin https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster Monster, Walter Dean Myers, Nalin Dynek, Period 4 en-us 2015-08-26 15:45:30 UTC 2023-02-04 07:00:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/notebook.jpg Monster Nalin https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/67191129 By: Walter Dean Myers

]]> 2015-08-26 15:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/67191129 Setting Nalin https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/67191698 This story takes place mostly in a prison and a courtroom. It goes back and fourth throughout the story because it sort of flash backs into the time it happened

]]> 2015-08-26 15:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/67191698 Plot Nalin https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/67191834 Steve and a few other guys held up a corner store. When things got out of hand, the store clerk was killed by one of the guys with them.

]]> 2015-08-26 15:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/67191834 Characters Nalin https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/71758669 Steve- Sixteen year old young black kid who got arrested for being the look out in a robbery that goes bad and ends in a murder

Osvaldo- His job was to trip the people that try to catch them after running out of the store

James King- the man that encourages Steve to take part in the robbery

Bobo- Accused of being in the store at the time of the murder

Petrocelli- The attorney that gave Steve and James the name "monsters"

Delgado- The other store clerk that found Briggs body in the store.

]]> 2015-09-23 15:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/71758669 Quotes Nalin https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/76734824 “Think about all the tomorrows of your life.” 

“They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.” 

“Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.” 

]]> 2015-10-21 15:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/76734824 Themes Nalin https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/76734853 Lies, Betrayal, Justice, Violence, Man vs Man, and Isolation

]]> 2015-10-21 15:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/76734853 Vocabulary Nalin https://padlet.com/Nalin/monster/wish/82137136 conspirators - people who plan an illegal or evil act

grotesque - unnatural, distorted; bizarre

pessimist - a person who expects the worst

admissable - able to be sent as truthful evidence; allowed to be part of a trial

perpetrator - a person who commits a crime

accomplice - a person who takes part in a crime

ghetto - area of a city where an ethnic or racial group lives or is contained

dismay - fear resulting from the awareness of danger

premises - land and buildings together considered as a place of business

liable - legally responsible

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