This book has so many problems. One is teen depression. There were these two kids names Valerie and Nick. They were both outcasts at Garvin High School, and people made fun of them and bullied them every day. Valerie was once popular but then she realized that she was not like these girls. So she changed to all black and baggie clothes. People started to call her sister death and thats when everything changed. People started to avoid her and call her mean names.
When Nick started at Garvin it was only a matter of time before they became friends. Valerie introduced him to her little circle of friends and they all clicked. Soon the two of them were hanging out together after school, walking to class together, meeting at each others lockers, they became really close. But it wasn't until Valerie went to his house and found out that he loved shakespear, a total dent in the baggie clothed i don't care attitude that he had, that she realized she was in love with him. They were still out casts, and everyone made fun of them. But they were bullied, and were outsiders together.
It all started as a joke. No one thought it would end up in a Garvin high massacre. It was a little red notebook. Nothing huge. A list. But then it turned into a whole bunch of names of people who bullied, and tormented Valerie and Nick.
All the signs were there Valerie just never noticed them. She never realized that she was implying that she wanted the same thing that Nick did, for all of them to be dead. This is why it came as a total shock to Valerie when Nick told her he would "handle it" she didn't realize that he would take out a gun and shoot her worst enemy. Then he started to shoot everyone. It took a while for her to realize this but everyone who he was shooting was on the list. The hate list!!
Valerie does not realize this but as reader I noticed that it seems like Nick just had enough of all of this and went crazy. Valerie insists that he was not depressed and has all these flashbacks of how happy he was. I am not saying Nick was depressed but just sick of all of the people who were giving them a hard time and it was just him for of pay back.
This is why being a reader is sometimes interesting because you have different perspectives and opinions from the narrator. You are forming your own opinions and you get to have a persecutive different from anyone else, with is the benefit of books and not reality.
Wow this is crazy. Who knew a high schooler would come out of nowhere and just start shooting people who bullied them. I mean sure you might have thughts or try to hurt them but i never heard of anyone killing someone who bullied you. I read books related to bullying but in all of them the victim just silently hates them and when they do something like make a list they just get happy. I agree with you that Nick just went crazy and that's why he shot the people on the list. I think that he was depressed or a little depressed because i don't think any normal person would just do that.
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