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<strong>Kaczur</strong> 32• Reread the prisoners’ debate about truth (p. 220). Who is right? What happens to truth inthe legal system? Are the lawyers seeking the truth? Which witnesses in the trial do youthink were telling the truth and which were not? Look back at the testimony and try todetermine what led you to form your opinions.• What do you think of the screenplay format as a way to tell this story? When is the formmost effective? When is it least effective? The advice Mr. Sawicki gives about film is tolet the audience “predict without predicting” and to “keep it simple” (pp. 19 and 214). Doyou think Steve achieves this with his movie? Use examples from the text to support youranswers.Discuss QuotationsPresent the following (or other) quotations from Monster to the class. Ask students to explainwhat the words mean in context and discuss how they feel about the ideas expressed. (Unlessotherwise indicated, the speaker is Steve.)• “This is not a movie about bars and locked doors. It is about being alone when you arenot really alone and about being scared all the time” (pp. 3–4).• “Most people in our communities are decent, hardworking citizens who pursue their owninterests legally and• without infringing on the rights of others. But there are also monsters in ourcommunities—people who are willing to steal and to kill, people who disregard the rightsof others” (Petrocelli, p. 21).• “It’s funny, but when I’m sitting in the courtroom, I don’t feel like I'm involved in thecase. It’s like the lawyers and the judge and everybody are doing a job that involves me,but I don't have a role. It’s only when I go back to the cells that I know I’m involved” (p.59).• “Half of those jurors, no matter what they said when we questioned them when we pickedthe jury, believed you were guilty the moment they laid eyes on you. You're young,you’re Black, and you're on trial. What else do they need to know?” (O’Brien, pp. 78–79).• “ ‘All they can do is put me in jail,’ he said. ‘They can’t touch my soul’ ” (Acie, p. 89).•• “I think about myself so much, about what’s going to happen to me and all, that I don’tthink about my folks that much. I know [Mama] loves me, but I wonder what she’sthinking” (p. 91).• “Seeing my dad cry like that was just so terrible. What was going on between us, mebeing his son and him being my dad, is pushed down and something else is moving up inits place. It’s like a man looking down to see his son and seeing a monster instead” (pp.115–116).• “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 thecrime. Isn’t that what being guilty is all about? You actually do something?” (p. 140).• “His film footage shows me what he’s seeing and, to a large extent, what he’s thinking.And what he sees, the humanity of it, speaks of a very deep character....• It is my belief that to make an honest film, one has to be an honest person” (Sawicki, p.237).
<strong>Kaczur</strong> 33• “They are all equally guilty. The one who grabbed the cigarettes, the one who wrestledfor the gun, the one who checked the place to see if the coast was clear” (Petrocelli, p.261).http://www.harperchildrens.com/schoolhouse/TeachersGuides/myers.htm#monster
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