Extra Credit - American Me

MONSTER
DUE: NLT Classtime, November 11
POINTS: Up to 10 
LENGTH: About 750 words (3 pages)

Check out the movie "AMERICAN ME"

Then:

1) Summarize the story
2) What is the significance of the title "American Me"?
3) Is Santana a sympathetic character?
3) If you were to write a lecture for a criminology course,
   what relevance would you say that it had for the course
4) List 5 points that you would want your students to take from the 
   book/movie
5) From our discussion of prisons, how realistic is it?

Note: Write this in essay format, not in short answer point-by-point format. 

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