Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Nineteen Minutes
The past week over Thanksgiving break I started reading the book Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccolt. This book is about a terrible school shooting in a small town neighborhood and the social diversities that brought upon this terrible event. The story starts off with the day of the terrible incident and then Piccolt unwinds this story by doing flash back and forths between Peters childhood growing up with his best friend Josie and then gets betrayed by her for the popular group. Peter gets picked on often by the "popular group" and Josie doesn't ever stick up for him or tell her so called friends to stop. Peter then goes to the extremes and brings a gun to school and shoots the people that have been mean to him so that he could "make it all stop." I feel like this book really touches home with how bullying can take the worst on people. The whole time I was reading this I wondered if this could happen in my school or this is what happened at Columbine. I thought about my past and if I ever have picked on kids not to the extreme like Peter got called "gay", "fag" and people would beat him up all the time but just not sticking up for someone. It really made me think about how I treat others and how much effect just plain old body language could change someones self esteem.
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5 comments:
kelly,
this book sounds like a great and very influential book. I think that this book should be highly reccomended in schools all around the country because I feel books like these really go straight to the heart even more so than seeing it in a movie. I feel that if 40% of the students at high schools read this book schools would be a whole new place.
Kelly,
I have heard a lot of this book and it seems like several people are reading it right now. I haven't gotten around to reading this book yet, but I definitely plan to, because it looks very good! I agree with Alex, I think that if more people read this, and realized how much bullying really hurts people, schools all around the world could truly change for the better, and people would realize how much they affect others. This is interesting to me, because I just finished reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven in which a man named Eddie learns a lesson about how everything you do in life affects others, whether you realize it or not.
I have also heard a lot about this book and it sounds really good. Many people don't see the affect bullying has on others, but it's important and it would change a lot of things for the better if more people were informed of this.
I read this book for my outside reading too, and it was really good. I agree that it was a very influential novel because it makes you realize that this can happen to anyone, no matter where you go to school. It makes you think about how your actions can come back to haunt you.
Kelly,
This book sounds very sad and I really want to read this. This book is probably a great lesson for kids in highschool who tend to tease other kids. I cant wait to read this book!
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