Hate List Reading Reflection

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In the novel Hate List Valerie Leftman starts dating a guy named Nick, she feels that he makes her whole life better and she loves how he helps her by distracting her from her parents struggling marriage. One day after being called mean names repeatedly she decides she is going to start a hate list, this list consists of people and things she absolutely hate. When Nick sees it he starts helping her put names on it, soon all Nick and Valerie are talking about is the list and how they want those people dead. But unlike Valerie, Nick actually has intentions of killing those people. One day Nick walks into the school and starts shooting all the people he can find that ate on their list. When Valerie sees this she tries to stop him and jumps in front of the gun and she gets shot, after Valerie did that Nick shoots himself in the head immediately ending his life. Valerie struggles to come to terms with the fact that Nick was not the great guy she thought he was. At the end of the book she and her newly found friend Jessica Campbell have a memorial for all the deaths, and Valerie is finally...

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