Racism helps explain why and how Steve Harmon goes to jail and why it will be so difficult for Steve to. As the trial progresses, Steve thinks of himself more and more as a character in a movie, not a real member of society. I want to look at myself a thousand times to look for one true image.” Is Steve innocent of his part in the crime? Readers must wait until the end of the story to find out Steve’s courtroom and personal verdict. Steve fears that his lawyer thinks he is guilty and that even his father sees him as a monster. I want to know the road to panic that I took. Steve writes this note to himself, “I want to know who I am. Readers are given a front seat to the personal dialogue Steve has with himself through diary entries he tucks in among the script. He directs camera angles at various characters in the story from the judge, to witnesses, and to the other teens involved in the crime. In a movie script format, Steve gives readers an account of the events leading up to the crime. As narrator, director and star of his story, Steve navigates readers through the events of the courtroom and discussions with his attorney. Steve Harmon, a 16-year-old African-American teen from Harlem, is awaiting trial for his role as an accomplice in a drugstore robbery that ended in murder. Before being imprisoned, Steve enjoyed amateur filmmaking and while in confinement decides to write his experience in prison as a movie script.
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