Write An Essay On Nineteen Minutes

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To be pushed and shoved, to be tormented because you’re nothing like anyone else from the moment you begin your first years of schooling to the very moment you decide to something about it. Jodi Picoult is trying to prove with Nineteen minutes is that Ostracism is a group effort. Nineteen minutes by Jodi Picoult, is about a young man who is driven to massacre his bullies and injure others at his in a form of a school shooting. This book is alarmingly powerful and causes you to see that there is always two sides to every story. This is shown by the assault that Peter faces daily, yet it isn’t just caused by one person but the entire school, the Teachers whom failed to intervene, the bystanders who decided it was better to laugh rather then band together and end his torment and as well the ones doing the constance assaulting, and bullying over and over again.

This is displayed when Peter claims while in custody that “they” had started it, well in his mind and true to form’ they’ had. “It wasn’t until Patrick had stepped out of the cell and turned the key in the lock that he heard peter speak again ‘they
“the smile on peter’s face wilted as he realized how deep a pit he’d fallen into and how many people had dug it” (Picoult 321). For Peter to even be pushed to this level of harassment was wrong and it was even worse that everyone in the lunchroom began to laugh at Peter as if it was a comedy special on T.V. For Peter this may have been the final nail in the coffin, he had endured years of suffering and had to find a way

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