Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes (2007) - Psychological Thrillers

Nineteen Minutes

1476729719 (ISBN13: 9781476729718)
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Description

For nineteen minutes you can mow the lawn, paint hair, see part of a hockey game…
For nineteen minutes you can bake rolls, fix a tooth, agree washed laundry…
For nineteen minutes you can stop the world, or to abandon it…
For nineteen minutes you can to revenge…

Sterling is the average American town where nothing happens until one day his peace is not disturbed by shocking act of violence. When 17-year old high school student Peter Houghton comes to high school and starts shooting at his peers and thereby kill nine students and teacher while the injured will be 19. After all, city residents seeking justice trying to get over what happened but will be forced to look at and its role in the recent events. For them is irretrievably lost boundaries between fact and fiction, justice and injustice, bias and objectivity. Josie daughter of Judge Alex Cormier which conducting the trial, it is likely the best witness for the prosecution, but she does not remember the events that unfolded before her eyes. During the trial, the secrets come to light, destroying long-standing friendships and family relationships…

Anyway, for myself, I am nothing special. But with you, I think I might be. Cruelty is always kind of fun until you realize that someone may be injured.

Conclusion

Jodi Picoult describes violence in school, harassment of students who are in some way different from the group that harasses them. This is a very difficult book with a lot of emotional moments which during the reading will not leave you indifferent.

The story is about a boy who after many years of being abused and ill-treatment by their peers solves to brutal revenge on those who took part in it. Every detail of the brutal violence up to thinking and planning the crime itself is very well-written, with a great twist at the end.

Reading this book you will come to doubt who is to blame here and who should be condemned. Is Peter Houghton only culprit because he took a weapon and decided to take revenge on those who have abused it for years or responsibility share the students who are on this way fed his ego and teachers together with parents who have closed their eyes thinking that will be only worse if they get involved?

Jodi Picoult credibly showing a typical American school and the reaction of the whole society and community according to abuse. Recommendation for a book that should be read by everyone, because all we sometimes closing eyes ahead of violence, not wanting to see what is the real cause of it.