So far, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers has been a very good book. I like the way it's formatted, how it portrays the book if it were a movie with all of the effects that would be there written into the text. I also like how the author describes things in the book with the movie script format, it makes the book more fun to read. It also has made me think about many things, one of those is racism, which is expressed in this quote, "'Half of those jurors, no matter what they said when we questioned them when we picked the 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?'" (78-79).

This quote really made me think about racism and how it affects society today. People will judge other people the moment they see them just because of the color of their skin or how they look. This is really wrong and people shouldn't make assumptions about people just becuase of the way they look, you should get to know them before making any judgements about them. It can be hard not to be judgemental at times though, like I'll see how someone acts one day and assume that's how they always are. Maybe they were having a bad day though and they're actually a really good person, I wouldn't know until I got to really know them.

This quote also made me think of all of the terrible things that have happened becuase of racism, namely wars. People will attack and try to kill a certain group of people just because of their religion or how they look, they won't get to know them or anything, they'll just assume. An example of this is the Holocaust. The Nazis didn't even bother to find anything out about the Jews, they just took them from their homes and killed them which was terrible. Granted, Hitler was a very persuasive speaker which could've convinced them to help him but that's still wrong. It makes me feel really bad whenever I think about what happened and why it happened. It's just stupid for something as serious as the Holocaust to happen just because some guy says they're an inferior race, it's unbelieveable. This quote really made me think about the negative impacts racism has had and how bad it is.