Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Nineteen minutes was all it took to change the lives of hundreds of students, teachers, families and friends -- forever.
In nineteen minutes you can cook a frozen pizza. In nineteen minutes you can watch an entire half-hour show on TiVo. In nineteen minutes you can run two miles.
In nineteen minutes your child can take a gun to school and kill all of the classmates who had ever bullied him.
Nineteen minutes can change the world.
The idea that in such a short period of time, one person can seemingly find revenge for all the wrong’s ever done to him is the driving force behind Jodi Picoult’s latest release. This story shares the agony of what it’s like to live in the shoes of small town boy, Peter Granford. Since kindergarten Peter has been bullied, teased, and told that he was different, weird, and just not good enough. On the other side of the story is the beautiful Josie Cormier. Josie hangs in the popular crowd at school. But it wasn’t always this way. Josie and Peter used to be friends. Best friends. But popularity got in the way of Peter’s only friendship and now Josie’s friends are the people responsible for making Peter’s life miserable. No one seems to notice that Peter has finally been pushed too far. He quietly and carefully devises a plan to end the lives of everyone who ever made it their personal mission to make Peter’s life a living hell.
This story is, sadly, a very realistic account of what it could be like should you find yourself walking the halls of your high school only to be confronted by a fellow student gun in hand, and a trail of blood and destruction left in his wake. Nineteen Minutes is so disturbing, at times you feel you have been reading a true account of one of the many school shootings our Country has seen in the last ten years. The tale is spun with truth and feeling so the reader cannot determine just where, exactly, her heart lies in the end. With Josie? The dead student’s families? With Peter’s parents? This is Picoult’s finest work. Read it and you will be hooked.
Nineteen minutes was all it took to change the lives of hundreds of students, teachers, families and friends -- forever.
In nineteen minutes you can cook a frozen pizza. In nineteen minutes you can watch an entire half-hour show on TiVo. In nineteen minutes you can run two miles.
In nineteen minutes your child can take a gun to school and kill all of the classmates who had ever bullied him.
Nineteen minutes can change the world.
The idea that in such a short period of time, one person can seemingly find revenge for all the wrong’s ever done to him is the driving force behind Jodi Picoult’s latest release. This story shares the agony of what it’s like to live in the shoes of small town boy, Peter Granford. Since kindergarten Peter has been bullied, teased, and told that he was different, weird, and just not good enough. On the other side of the story is the beautiful Josie Cormier. Josie hangs in the popular crowd at school. But it wasn’t always this way. Josie and Peter used to be friends. Best friends. But popularity got in the way of Peter’s only friendship and now Josie’s friends are the people responsible for making Peter’s life miserable. No one seems to notice that Peter has finally been pushed too far. He quietly and carefully devises a plan to end the lives of everyone who ever made it their personal mission to make Peter’s life a living hell.
This story is, sadly, a very realistic account of what it could be like should you find yourself walking the halls of your high school only to be confronted by a fellow student gun in hand, and a trail of blood and destruction left in his wake. Nineteen Minutes is so disturbing, at times you feel you have been reading a true account of one of the many school shootings our Country has seen in the last ten years. The tale is spun with truth and feeling so the reader cannot determine just where, exactly, her heart lies in the end. With Josie? The dead student’s families? With Peter’s parents? This is Picoult’s finest work. Read it and you will be hooked.
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