Summer Entry 3

A place in the book Monster that really grabbed my attention was on page 108 during Steve’s “Saturday, July 11^th” journal entry. In it his states “Everybody in here either talks about sex or hurting somebody or what they’re in here for. That’s all they think about and that’s what’s on my mind, too. What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn’t kill Mr. Nesbitt. Sunset said he committed [his] crime. Isn’t that what being guilty is all about? You actually do something? You pick up a gun and you point it across a small space and pull a trigger? You grab the purse and run screaming down the street? Maybe, even, you buy some baseball cards that you think were stolen?” ( Myers 108) This hooks me into the book because it shows how Steve feels about the situation, and gets me to take Steve’s side.  Steve is trying to support his case by sharing that everyone in jail is there for serious things, and how he is being accused of murder when all he did was walk in, buy mints, and leave.