19 Minutes

This is book is about the school shooting (book summary in the blog post before this one). As i said before. Bullying was a large contender to what made Peter do this school shooting. As I've read on, I have learned more about the characters who were killed in the shooting, and what their pasts were like. They all had very cryptic pasts. Josie boyfriend, Matt, had physically abused her when she did or didn't do something that was up to his standards. Peter had known this, when Josie came to school with a  broken ankle, and told Peter (when they were trapped in an elevator alone), that Matt had broken it. All of the people who had been shot at and killed, had all been you might say, were some bad people. Peter had known this and killed them on purpose.

I think that even though these people that Peter thought should be killed, should've not been killed. I think that our world is used violence more and more to solve our problems, when really violence isn't the answer to anything. There are more ways to solve universal problems besides using violence. What is really the bigger problem though, is that Peter felt so isolated in his world that he had to use the violence to get noticed and make all of the bad things stop. The most saddening part of all of it though, is that Peter didn't feel like he could turn to anybody. He no friends that would go out with him in public because he was so unpopular. His mom didn't understand, and his father was work occupied. I think that everybody should have somebody to turn to, no matter how you are. I think that if Peter had somebody to talk to, or even had somebody who get what he was going through, he wouldn't have turned to violence and none of this would've happened.