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Mr. Harmon is Steve’s father. Mr. Harmon states that he never imagined his own son would be involved in a murder or wind up in jail, and he tells Steve that when Steve was a baby, Mr. Harmon dreamed about him growing up and playing college football, attending Morehouse university just like his father did. Although Steve claims to be innocent, Mr. Harmon is unsure if he believes him, and Steve realizes that their relationship as father and son has broken, reflecting that it seems as if his dad sees a monster in place of where his son should be.
Mr. Harmon Quotes in Monster
The Monster quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Harmon or refer to Mr. Harmon. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Thursday, July 9th Quotes
Seeing my dad cry like that was just so terrible. What was going on between us, me being his son and him being my dad, is pushed down and something else is moving up in its place. It’s like a man looking down to see his son and seeing a monster instead.
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Steve’s father visits him in a private meeting room and expresses his grief that his son has gotten involved in such a mess—it was not what Mr. Harmon had dreamed his son’s future would be. Steve’s feels that their father-son relationship is broken, replaced by a relationship between a father and a monster. This seems in part a reflection of Steve’s own internalized dehumanization. Since he is a subjective, unreliable narrator, it is possible that he is blowing events out of proportion, but Mr. Harmon is genuinely crushed that his son is now in a criminal trial, and it is Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Volup
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Mr. Harmon Character Timeline in Monster
The timeline below shows where the character Mr. Harmon appears in Monster. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Thursday, July 9th
In a visiting room, Steve’s father Mr. Harmon visits him. Mr. Harmon says O’Brien isn’t sounding very positive about the case so far,...
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In his notes, Steve writes that he’s never seen his father cry before. Steve doesn’t even know what he’s guilty of—all he did was walk into...
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