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Jodi Picoult’s novel, Nineteen Minutes, tells the story of Peter Houghton, a teenage boy who one day, brings a gun to school and kills some of his fellow classmates. Peter is a troubled boy who has been bullied and teased since his first day of kindergarten when a bully took his brand new Superman lunch box and threw it out the bus window. He is bullied every day since, by bigger kids at school, his own older brother and eventually, by even his best friend.
The novel takes you through the events leading up to the shooting and the investigation and trial that follows it. You see the world from multiple points of view; Peter's, his childhood friend Josie Cormier’s and his mother – you see all the different sides of the story. Filled with Picoult’s usual plot twists and turns, this is a moving novel. It shows you how bullying can ruin lives. This book gives you an inside view of what goes on in a school shooters mind. It shows you how sometimes; the perpetrator can sometimes be the biggest victim of all.
One of the most memorable lines from the book tells us, “Everyone will remember him for those nineteen minutes, but what about the other nine million?” The book urges you to look passed the surface, and see the truth. You see more than just the facts of that day – you see the events leading up to it and how truly troubled the boy was. It causes you to question everything, including your own lives.
