I'm starting to think that this trial is kind of unfair towards Steve, I could already tell in the beginning of the book that the jury thought he was guilty but now it seems like he really is innocent but nothing is going his way. They brought in another witness, Osvaldo Cruz, who is a real dirt bag but is acting really afraid and timid for the jury so they want to convict Steve even more. That's a jerk move and I really want to tell the jury what Cruz is really like. A quote that really got me thinking was this, "That was what I was thinking, about what was in my heart and what that made me. I'm just not a bad person. I know that is my heart I am not a bad person" (93).

This really made me feel bad for Steve, he seems like a nice guy that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and nobody believes that. I want to help him out and tell the jury that they would be making a huge mistake if they convicted him of this crime and they would be putting an innocent guy in jail and ruining his life. He really doesn't have much as it is and this would effectively end his life, if not his livelihood, if he were to be put in jail. I'm impressed by the way he's handling himself in this situation, he's still managing to write about everything that's going on in his life in his little diary/movie script thing. If I were in his position right now I wouldn't be able to record anything, I would be too busy worrying about what is going to happen to me.

This reminds of the book "Holes" by Louis Sachar, where Stanley Yelnats is put on trial for "stealing" a pair of shoes that were going to go to the homeless or something like that, when really the shoes were thrown from a highway and landed on him and then the police found him with the shoes and assumed he did it. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and he had to pay for it by going to Camp Green Lake which turned out really well for him in the end but still. He was wrongly put into this camp because he happened to find the shoes that were stolen, which is really similar to what happened to Steve in Monster. I feel bad for both of them even though I know that everything works out for Stanley, and I'm still waiting to find out what happens to Steve.