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Background
The background on why he wrote Monster is that it started out when he interviewed people from prisons in New York and New Jersey. He went to watch a trial in Jersey City, about a seventeen year old boy who was charged with armed robbery and attempted murder. The seventeen year old has a life sentence and told the court that he killed the man on self defense.

Themes
The major theme of this book Is a "young man's attempt to fashion a coherent identity in the face of competing moral, legal, and social forces."