Columbine Shooting Research Paper

In the face of fear people often betray the ones closest to them. Other automatically give up without the need of torture because the fear is so strong it controls the ability to make decisions. Fear is often a powerful emotion that come with selfishness and every person for themselves idea. Sometimes people can overcome the pain or fear for a loved one but in Orwell’s book 1984 shows how fear can override that love and can force people to betray the person closest to them. Fear causes selfishness and survival instincts to activate. A person who is the kindest person and is very altruistic in many different ways but when face with their greatest fear that person could fail or betray their loved ones. “All you care about is yourself,” in a crisis, a person might give up sensitive information or put another in harm's way(Orwell page, 292). Even after you can pretend that they did not mean or it was only a trick but at the time they meant every selfish word they said.

It all starts in the beginning of the book On page 10, Paul’s mom states, “‘How about waiting for the rest of us, Eric?’” This quote foreshadows what is to come later on in the story. The deep and dark Eric. This little action may not seem like a big deal, but it shows Eric's future personality. Rude, inappropriate, and violent. To add, on page 52, Paul says, “How could they be happy...Mike Costello's death.” This quote marks the start of many more bad behaviours to come from Erik. This is when the reader starts to think that there is another darker side to Erik that has not been on full display. All in all, Erik is a very shady character to start off, he really doesn’t have a full personality, but that will soon change.

In conclusion, Eric understood that bystanding and trying to fit in was wrong so, he learned to stand up and defy the jerks. Eric had become Griffin’s friend until he found out his true colors. For many reasons, Eric decided to put a stop to all the bullying once and for

    Eric Calhoune, both the protagonist and narrator, is an important character of the text. It is fascinating how he is such a devoted friend to Sarah, and wants to do whatevers best for her, even if it is not beneficial for him. Over the course of the novel, Eric evolved into a more forgiving character. This is accomplished when he goes to someone who used to bully him, Dale Thornton, for help on how to get Sarah Byrnes to

other teenage guy. Eric is a good looking guy about 5’9 and weighs around 140 pounds.

Then when he told Mr. Byrnes where Sarah was, it was a decision he made for both himself and Sarah, because if he hadn’t told Mr. Byrnes, then he would have been dead and unable to help her anymore. In addition, when Eric kept Sarah from going to Colorado, it was a decision for both of them because he knew that if Sarah stayed, then she could have a family, but also that Eric did not want to lose her or her friendship. Even though Eric had to choose Sarah’s safety over her friendship for different decisions of the book, he was able to do it in a way that he saved their friendship and kept her

“Eric?” “I know these guys, Mom. It’s okay. I got it.” ... Eric stood eyeing the three boys. “We were thinking, that is, me and Hakeem and Cody, that, um—” Pat floundered. “We found out about what happened to your bike,” Hakeem explained. “It’s not right,” Cody stated, glancing down at Eric’s feet. He looked up. “We told Griffin that he went too far.” “You did? How’d that go over?” This is shown on Kindle location 1894. This shows the consequence of Eric's actions. Eric's thoughts that later lead to his actions are shown in this scene "OVER THE REST OF THE WEEK, ERIC WITNESSED A NUMBER of incidents that involved David Hallenback. Mostly stupid stuff, nothing that seemed all that bad, like somebody reaching out to flick David’s ears as they passed in the hallway, or another guy stepping on the back of his sneaker, giving David a flat tire. Maybe it had been going on since the beginning of September—or maybe even for years—and Eric hadn’t really noticed. But now when he walked down the hall, Eric’s eyes were open. He saw that David Hallenback—that weird, awkward, mush-faced kid—was having a pretty rough time." (Loc. 809)This clearly shows how Eric is thinking about helping and

It’s difficult to believe that two high school students could enter their school and begin firing on classmates, but that’s exactly what happened at Columbine. The country was riveted by the news that something so evil could happen by two of their own. Columbine High School, located in Littleton, Colorado, had an enrollment of 1,136 in April 1999. Eric Harris (seventeen) and Dylan Klebold (eighteen) entered Columbine High School on April 19, 1999, at approximately 11:19 AM and began shooting. Due to Klebold and Harris being bullied, the two boys planned an attack to shoot students and staff.

B. Thesis: The government should have help Hurricane Katrina, through additional money, supplies, and community help.

Dick Hickock from In Cold Blood and Eric Harris from Columbine are similar in many ways. Dick was thirty-four years old when his life changed forever and Eric was eighteen years old when his did the same. Some ways they are similar are, they both did things to get into trouble, they were “leaders” of their group, and they were both murderers. “Murderers, in general, are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.” Dick Hickock and Eric Harris both did things to get them into trouble before they became murderers.

history and prompted a national debate on gun control and school safety, as well as a major investigation to determine what motivated the gunmen, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17” (History.com) She noticed how her entire neighborhood was under this umbrella of stress and concern. She talks about how Mrs. Louis didn't hear from her daughter for two days. One can only imagine how stressed and worried everyone in that family was. With being in such a stressful environment, Lisa did not give specifics on what she and the others did while waiting for news on the grandchildren of Mrs.Louis, but she did give me some information “You know, it’s a very stressful time. I think we talked about that would be okay. That as the news reports came, and they knew that kids were out of the school safe. Eventually they recognized who the shooters were as they started going through the school, and making sure that kids were okay, and matching kids. We just kinda sat there and held hands, and just prayed, and provided emotional support”

Dylan and Eric killed a bunch of kids. They first kid they killed was Rachel. They also had killed was her brothers 2 friends. Their parents had known that something was going to happen. But they did nothing.

The first misconception is that the social cliques that occur in high schools across the nation has a role in this tragedy. Columbine is not simply a school shooting but is rather a shooting that the gunmen chose the school as their tool. School shooters tend to act impulsively and attack the targets of their rage mainly the students and faculty. Harris and Klebold planned for a year and dreamed much bigger. The school served as a means to a grander end, to terrorize the entire nation by attacking a symbol of American life. The shooters talk in numerous video tapes about their act being bigger than the Oklahoma city bombings. They boasted about making sure there bloody performance was bigger and more memorable. Klebold is particular was quoted as bragging about inflicting “the most deaths in U.S. history. Columbine was

A little over two years ago, one of the worst tragedies concerning our nation’s children was playing out in a small rural town in Colorado. The date was April 20, 1999; the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s Birthday, for any history buffs. But for everyone else the day started out like any other. In Jefferson County (often mistakenly reported as being in Littleton), Colorado, children went to school and parents went off to work. Neither was overly concerned about the other, or about how the day would go, but in a few hours, that would all change.

6. There are several points in this narrative where there were opportunities to fix the problem. Pick out at least two examples of points at which moral imagination and or moral courage by the various participants could have headed off the catastrophe. Indicate the person and what they could have done to fix the problem.