Nineteen+Minutes+by+Jacqueline+L.

=Journal #1 (Pages 1-114)=

In the beginning of the book, it starts to explain what can happen in nineteen minutes. Alex Cormier, a Supreme Court judge, and her daughter, Josie Cormier live in New Hampshire. Their relationship seems to be stressful and not that steady. It goes into Josie's high school life, explaining that she had a boyfriend named Matt. Josie and Matt were the ideal couple in high school and were in the "popular" crowd. Josie was in love with Matt, the world would stop and she would forget about everything when she was with him. But a flaw about Matt was that he would make Josie think she had a problem with her weight. Patrick Ducharme was a detective on the Sterling police force. He was never proud of what he did because he felt as if he never actually detected anything. When he was in his police car, he heard the radio saying there were shots being fired at Sterling High School and started driving towards the school. Patrick was not supposed to go into the school, but he felt that he had to save people. When he went inside, he heard that it was a kid shooting everyone. He ran around and saw bodies lying on the ground. Patrick rescued Josie, the judge’s daughter, from the school and got her out. They figured out that Peter Houghton was the shooter. Josie was in the hospital and could not remember a thing. She did not know what happened or why she was in the hospital. She thought she got in a car accident, but when Patrick told her that someone was shooting in the school, she immediately asked if her boyfriend was okay. Patrick told her that he was dead, and she all she could do was shriek. The book goes back a few years, and shows that Peter and Josie were best friends in elementary school. During elementary school, it would show some of the kids at the school were bullying Peter by throwing his superman lunchbox out the bus window and happened continuously. Josie told her mom and wanted her to do something about it. While Josie and Peter were hanging out when they were younger, it shows that Josie points a rifle to her mother saying that Peter had the key to the safe. Peter's mother, Lacy Houghton, and Alex got in a fight about Peter knowing how to open the safe and Josie and Peter were not allowed to see each other again. It skips to the day after the shooting and shows Peter in a cell. Jordan McAfee is Peter's lawyer, and he was wanted from Peter's parents to support him. Lewis Houghton, Peter's father, went into Peter's room while he was in jail and saw the television talking about the shooting. He thought about how ticker tape hadn't existed until 9/11 and needed to know news without any delay. The section ends off with Josie wanting her mother to leave her alone and her taking out her stashed supply of sleeping pills. She was thinking about killing herself by swallowing five pills at the same time, but she spits them out after trying to make herself swallow them.
 * Summary:[[image:image-lunchsupsteel-primary-Watermark-1.jpg width="216" height="188" align="right"]]**

Nineteen Minutes has opened my eyes to what can really happen in real life. The characters and the way Jodi Picoult put the words of her book together makes me feel like what has happened in the book can happen in real life. People that are bullied can be effected a lot from the other people around them and can have them to think of having suicidal thoughts or become depressed. Many people would never think about this situation happening on a regular basis as an effect of bullying. This book gets me to think what I would do in a situation like this. This book has also shown me that even though someone seems to have a perfect life, they could be suffering from something. I think this book provides a good amount of action and can be very related to. It has been a quick page turner and has caught my attention in what can happen. I think the characters of the book are interesting and not too exaggerated. The book is a little confusing on how the book skips from years before to the day after the shooting, but It also makes the book have you to think more about what happened before and after. It can make it more fun to read or just more confusing.
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-Jodi Picoult In High School -Recent High School Shootings in New Hampshire -[|9/11] -[|Gun Control] -[|Effects on the Bully and the Bullied]
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=Journal #2 (Pages 114-258)=

**Summary:** In the beginning of this section, it starts off with the people at Sterling High school at Matt Royston’s memorial service. Matt was Josie’s boyfriend that was shot in the shooting at their school. She felt as if everyone was staring at her while she sat in the back of the funeral, and while she thought about all the times she had with Matt, she felt as if she was dissolving. Her mother tries to comfort her by saying it wasn’t her fault and she could not do anything to save him. It then changes the scene into Peter in his cell. Someone in the jail was named “carnivore” and was scaring Peter. Peter thought about how he did not want to stay in a cell for ten straight months, and started to feel guilty. He did not want to think about what he did anymore so he stopped talking to the man. Patrick, the detective, asks Josie questions and tries to have her remember what happened. Josie does not remember what happened, but she said that Peter Houghton was noticed at their school because he did not try to fit in. Josie admits that Matt bullied Peter, but so did many other students. It then shows an FBI report about school shootings saying that the school shooters usually have problems with their parents or have pathological behavior. Peter and his lawyer Jordan are talking, and Peter calls the bullies "like a pack." They needed to make someone else feel bad about themselves in order for them to feel good. Jordan asked why he couldn't stay out of their path, but Peter said they would still catch him somehow. Peter’s father, Lewis Houghton, would wake up very early in the morning to go run on the treadmill in the basement. He always had habits of doing everything in a certain manner. Lewis thought about how he could have a child that would do such a thing and tried to comfort himself. It continues to six years before and shows the continuous bullying of Peter. Whole all of them were in school, one of their teachers says something terrible has happened. Two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center and another one into the Pentagon. As they kept getting older, it shows a scene where Drew, one of the bullies, and Matt are bullying Peter. Peter starts to believe what they keep saying to him and started thinking he wasn’t good enough. It then explains that Peter has an older brother named Joey. He was a better athlete, funnier, and was just "cooler" than Peter. It skips to ten days after the shooting, and Lacy says that Joey died a year ago from being killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. Lacy said Peter adored Joey and wanted to be just like him. The school had new rules; the doors would be locked after school began, no backpacks were allowed in classrooms anymore, and students and staff would need ID cards to wear around their necks. It then goes to Jordan speaking with Peter about his brother. says that he is glad Joey's dead because he was the start of his bullying. Peter says that Joey would tell people that he was adopted and he'd make fun of him right in front him to his friends. It goes to one year before the shooting and has Josie saying the things she knew about her father. His name was Logan Rourke, he was a teacher at the law school her mother had attended, and was ten years older than her mother. It then shows a scene of Matt about to beat up Peter until Josie yells for them to stop and asks why Matt has to pick on the kids who are not like them. It also shows a scene where Peter and Josie were stuck in an elevator, and Peter dared Josie to kiss him and she does. It skips to one month after the shooting, and the section ends with Lacy speaking to Peter in jail.

My opinion on the book so far has been a book that I cannot keep my hands off of. It is filled with different scenes of what has happened in their lives, and is very relatable in some ways. This book is so realistic of what can be happening in someone's life. I like that it has the girly twists in it, but also the action that other people might want. When it goes back to scenes with what happened with Josie and her boyfriend, it shows that their relationship was mostly based off of what Matt wanted to do. It gets suspenseful at the points where they are giving more information about what has happened through Peter’s life. When Peter and Josie were stuck in the elevator, it gave a lot of information about why Josie was so mean to Peter. I can tell that Josie feels bad for him and does not want to be mean to him, but thats just how their school and her group of friends are. I feel that Josie is a person who just wants people to notice her and does not want to be known as anything negative. This book gets a little boring at some parts, but is usually keeping you on your toes.
 * My Opinion:**

-Reasons of 9/11 -Reasons of Depression -Conditions of Jail in New Hampshire -Recent Drunk Driving Accidents -New Hampshire School Rules
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=Journal #3 (Pages 258-372)=

The section starts out with the courtroom saying what Peter Houghton is charged for. He was charged with many first-degree murders and possession of firearms on school grounds and was then taken back to his cell. A college student named Elena Battista sent a letter to Peter wanting to interview him because she wanted to talk about being bullied. She says in the letter that if she had someone like him in her life, her life would have been different and she wants to meet him. Peter liked that a girl wanted totalk to him and tucked it under his pillow. It then skips to Detective Ducharme wanting to speak with Josie again. He asks her questions about the shooting, and Josie just wants to leave and does not answer most of the questions. It then leads into Derek Markowitz, one of Peter's bullies, talking to Selena about how Josie and Peter used to be friends until Josie left to become one of the cool kids. It goes back to Peter’s cell and Elena visits him. They talk about what the effects of bullying can be and if he planned on killing certain people. It skips into the month before the shooting, and Peter sends an email to Josie saying that he loves her. Josie was in the shower when he sent it and her friend was on her computer while she got it. Her friend read the email and told Derek to send it to everybody in school. One of Josie’s friends Peter that Josie is over Matt and likes him back. He goes up to her table and he gets bullied and made fun of for the email. He runs into the bathroom and shows a lot of hate for that group. At that moment, Peter was so angry and it showed he wanted a lot of revenge on them. It then goes into a situation where Josie thought she was pregnant. She took pregnancy tests and all of them were positive. She told Matt, and he said it could’ve been because of stress, but he would be there for her no matter what. After a few days, it then showed that she was miscarrying. She was relieved. After the flashback, it goes into part two. It starts five months after the shooting. Patrick, the detective, and Alex, Josie's mom, have started dating. It goes into Patrick and Alex’s relationship, and Josie asking about what their relationship is like. realizes she is lonely and she goes to the graveyard to visit her dead boyfriend. It then goes into Peter’s trial, and Drew is being asked questions because he is a witness. He says that he has never bullied Peter, and Patrick gets angry because he knows that he was the one who shoved him into lockers and bullied him a lot. The section ends with a girl named Zoe who got shot in the leg by Peter while she was waiting to be picked up for an orthodontist appointment.
 * Summary:**

Nineteen minutes never disappoints me on keeping me interested, but also seems like the same subjects are being repeated. The book continuously skips back and forth through time, but just reveals more about how Peter was bullied or what Josie and Matt's relationship was like. I think it is going to build up into something later in the book and could be foreshadowing something. This book shows that we can do something to end bullying in our schools because the effects can be serious. I think Jodi Picoult does a good job with putting suspense into the book, but it feel that it goes too long on the court sections.
 * My Opinion:**

-[|Criminal Code in New Hampshire] -First-Degree Murder -[|Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder] -Manslaughter -Cyber Bullying
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=Journal #4 (Pages 372-455)=

This last section starts with Josie going into court to get testified. Drew was also getting questioned, and says, "we were just being kids." Jordan McAfee, Peter's lawyer, starts to question how they bullied Peter. He puts Drew on the spot and says the situation about him spamming Peter's personal love note to Josie to everyone in school. That caused Drew to become nervous and made him want to run away. It continues with Jordan McAfee questioning about their school. During the day of the shooting, Peter explained how he felt like a slug while people poured salt on him. He felt as if everyone in the schoolmedia type="youtube" key="EA22SKaQ5hU" height="351" width="432" align="right" wanted to pick on him. It skips to five months after and shows a video of Peter casually eating a bowl of cereal in the school cafeteria after shooting everyone. The doctors thought Peter was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and that he was in a dissociative state. It continues with a scene of Josie and Matt at a party. This was the only time that they broke up and no one knew about it. When they went home after the party, Matt called Josie and was about to overdose. He was very drunk and thought he could not live without Josie. It then skips to Patrick saying Josie has been lying on trial. Josie claims that Matt first tried to shoot Peter. It then skips to the morning of the shooting, and shows the scene where Matt and Josie are about to be shot by Peter. Josie screams and scares Peter into dropping the gun. Josie grabs the gun and points it at Peter. Matt yells at Josie for not shooting Peter and calls her stupid. Peter stands up for her and says for Matt not to call her that. Josie under a lot of stress, shoots without looking and shoots Matt. When Josie screams for help to Peter, he shoots Matt in the head. Josie and Peter promise to keep it a secret if neither of them tell. Five months after the shooting, Josie was in court. They say she lied again because if Matt fired at Peter, than there would have been evidence. Josie is arrested and is sentenced for perjury. Exactly one month after Peter was convicted, he kills himself by shoving his sock down his throat as far as it would go. While he was dying, he thought about the happy times he had and thought killing himself was the right thing to do. The book ends with Alex and Patrick at the school retracing their nineteen minutes of what is currently happening.
 * Summary:**

This book was a very greatly crafted book. All the scenes from the beginning of the book tie into the ending. I thought it was very surprising on how Josie was the one who killed Matt, and Peter covered for her. I thought that it was a tragic ending because Peter thought his life should be over. It shows that Peter had to be one of the people who suffer from the suicidal thoughts through bullying. I think that it is sick for people to bully someone so much that the one being bullied thinks their life is better when they are dead. This book has taught me a different way to view the world and has showed me many possible things that could happen anywhere in the world. This book kept me on my toes and makes me wonder what other books Jodi Picoult has written. She is a very great writer and I agree with the positive comments this book has gotten.
 * My Opinion:**

-Consequences of Perjury -Being In a Dissociative State -FBI Evidence of Murder -Reasons of Teen Suicide -Overdosing on Drugs
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