Eric Harris Deceit

It was 11:19 am when the first set of gunshots pierced through the walls of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In 49 short minutes, two high school seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and 1 teacher, and then killed themselves. Months prior, the pair planned out the attacks in a series of journal entries and video diaries. The attack at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 raised many questions; the biggest one being, why did they do it? While the common media misconception is that the Columbine shooting was a war against jocks and outcasts, the shooting was actually perpetuated by psychopathy and depression in the shooters.

There grammar was challenging to follow and some of their verb choices were completely new to me. Incorporating this was important to get a realistic feel for the events that were occurring. However, I found myself having to reread these sections several time to understand what they were trying to convey.

Write of what parts of the text were the most difficult to read, and to identify how many times a passage was read before some understanding was achieved.

The author described things well in this book, but this book was a bit easy to read because she didn’t use difficult words. This sometimes would not allow for you to know exactly how she meant for things to appear.

Terror, shock, desperateness, all feelings of the Columbine victims. Through the recountment of the encounter between Patti Nielson and the shooters during the beginning moments of the Columbine shooting in chapter 11, Dave Cullen is able to adopt an informative tone in order to focus young adults’ attention to the ruthlessness of the Columbine shooting.

The story of the Columbine shooters, particularly Eric Harris, illustrates how public schooling can serve as an example in which allowing an excessive amount of freedom can have ill effects on others around them. He was fond of writing disturbing stores in his creative writing classes, and these writings were products of his malicious, but unique, character. Had the school system enforced conformity more strongly, there may have been an opportunity to alter Harris’ course of action.

privacy probably because he had so little of it. When he was alone though, he

If he had not done this the whole family would be just as bitter and angry as he is. Their perspective of their father would have damaged even more and would subsequently hated the government for what they did to him. Instead he takes on this task by himself. This journey he takes is in many ways similar to the journey Phoenix Jackson takes in “A Worn Path.” In the short story Phoenix Jackson, an old woman, walks a long treacherous path many times to get medicine for her sick grandson.

Dylan was the quiet one that didn’t talk to anyone at school besides Eric because he doesn’t have any friends. He is a depressive child and holds in a bunch of anger and hate ,but he doesn’t let anyone know a difference in the way he is acting in school. Dylan looks really crazy in the video he made with Eric. He was screaming and talking like he was made at the whole world. I think Dylan is the one that will do anything he puts his mind on and also isn’t scared

the text, this was the key to the success of the book, in my opinion.

Some of the information in this section of the book was shocking. For example, a scene telling |

By doing this, the author made the book less enjoyable so I did not want to keep reading like I do with other books. Reading this book became more of a task rather than a

in confinement and being sent along with Clarke the rest of the 100 down to the ground.

later because he was just trying to fit in to the group when he was just a young boy.

    That's the day before terms begin,his parents told him that he had have to go to another school, he was very sad when he knew this.And he began to argue with his parents. That night he thought a lot  of all his classmate.