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Nineteen minutes can be everything and nothing, it can be an end or beginning . . . what is nineteen minutes in one person’s life. In the realistic novel Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult explains how nineteen minutes can destroy a person’s life. She shows how time is the one thing people will always underestimate. In the tiny town of Sterling, New Hampshire, Peter, a senior in highschool, a seventeen year old boy changed their world in nineteen minutes . . . one boy who stopped time . . . . Judge Alex

A person can do a lot in a matter of nineteen minutes. Although it may not seem like a very long time, nineteen minutes forever changed the lives of nearly everyone living in Sterling, New Hampshire. Beginning at 10:16, 10 lives would be lost, 19 would be injured, and countless people would live in fear and constantly be brought back to that day. On March 6, 2007, Peter Houghton brought 4 guns into his high school and began shooting, and shooting, and shooting. Peter’s life had been filled with relentless

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Fiction Novel Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult is a novel based on a school shooting in the small town of Sterling, but focuses more importantly on the feelings of the main characters, Peter Houghton and Josie Cormier, who experience insecurities and social acceptance, or lack of. The novel explores the damaging effects of bullying, peer pressure and the dynamics of group interaction within teenagers in a modern day society. Picoult’s novels are aimed at a

part, I enjoyed Nineteen Minutes. It was an extremely emotional novel about a teen boy that killed ten people in his high school. Describing the school shooting was not the book’s main idea, the real purpose was to explain the events leading up to and the events after the shooting. In my opinion, Jodi Picoult started the book out beautifully when she described how long the school shooting was by relating it to basic everyday things that most people could relate to. Most of Nineteen Minutes took place

Nineteen Eighty-Four “Government, is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”, this famous quote was stated by George Washington. The thesis of Nineteen Eighty-Four is how giving government too much control destroys freedom. The quote from George Washington explains exactly what the Party is, in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Nineteen Eighty-Four is written by George Orwell which was one of Eric Arthur Blair’s two pen names, the

with company. In Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult presents a motif of public vs. private self through many of her characters to show that things are not always how they seem and to make the reader evaluate who they are as a person. Humans need social interaction to flourish and they tend to select a few people to become closest with. They share secrets, gossip about others, and support each other in times of need, but how well can someone really know another person? In Nineteen Minutes the reader

ENG 3U1 Valerie Campus Mr. Toffoletti November 11th, 2015 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Outline Winston Smith is the main character in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four. He falls in love with a girl named Julia which has been forbidden by law by the party who rule all. The book is set in London, in the city of Airstrip One which is part of the superstate Oceania. The world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. These three superstate are said to always be in war against one

Research Paper Imagine being under surveillance every day and every second of the day. A stranger always knowing where you are and what you are doing at all times. It is really terrifying to know someone is ALWAYS watching, yet many people brush off this fact. We live in America “the land of freedom” but are we really free? Today is the future, and we have advanced in technology, all the way from robots automatically mopping your floor to having a personal assistant that assists your every need

“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. You can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist.... Or, as Peter Houghton knows… in nineteen minutes, you can bring the whole world to a screeching halt”(Picoult 363). In Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, Peter had been bullied his whole life, and he wanted revenge. Peter felt the only way to get revenge was to pull the trigger towards classmates and teachers. Nineteen Minutes takes place

Oceania is the country where the book 1984 takes place. Its society is far from that of Utopia’s. In Oceania there is no freedom not even to think. They are even creating a new form of English called Newspeak in which all the words that have anything to do with rebellion are deleted. The country is always at war and constantly uses propaganda and mind control tactics to control its populace. In the book 1984 the ruling party tries to control everything even down to the way people think by telling