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__ Nineteen Minutes __ by: Jodi Picoult Page numbers read: 125 by 3/16/11 In this book, there are many events occurring at the same time. The main event is that a big major shooting has just broken out at Sterling High and 10 people died. They know who the suspect is and it is a high school student named Peter Houghton. There is a mother and daughter in the book. The mother is Alex Cormier and she is a judge and her daughter is Josie. She is a junior at Sterling High. She had received a concussion from the shooting but she lived. I later found out in the book that Josie and Peter were childhood friends but high school split them apart. Peter has been made fun of and bullied all his life and Josie gave into peer pressure and started to hang with the cool kids. Ironically, Peter had shot Josie’s boyfriend twice whereas he shot all the other nine students once. Peter’s mother, Lacy Houghton is wondering where she went wrong with raising her son. She thinks that the accusation is a mistake and she wonders why he did it. In this book, time goes back and forth. One chapter will be present day and the next will be 17 years before or 12 years before to show the character’s lives before all these events occur. For example, Josie and her mother used to be close before she got to high school and then their relationship went bad. I really like this book so far. I like how it flashes back to times before all the events occurred to show some events from the past that might have led up to it. I do not like, however, how the book will randomly skip to other events when you are just reading about one. It will just jump to something completely different. The author uses this to create suspense and to leave the reader hanging. It kind of makes it a little harder to understand but hopefully all these ideas share some connection to each other. Overall it makes me want to read more. · Law · Justice · Guns · Columbine shootings -author has 3 children that were bullied in school []= media type="youtube" key="0Vh_Cq7h_gI" width="425" height="350"
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Tina Antonios __ Nineteen Minutes __ by: Jodi Picoult Read 125 pages by 3/24/11 The investigation on the shooting has gone further. Patrick Drew, the main officer on the case, eats breaths and sleeps this case. He will not rest his case until he finds out everything about the case like why Peter did it and where did he get the guns from. I found out that when he was younger he was playing with Josie in the basement and Peter knew where the key to the gun case was. He got the key and he and Josie were playing with it. His father is a hunter so he would show the gun to Peter and tell him all the basics of the gun. The book also says that since Peter never did fit in, he always wanted to commit suicide. He would listen to a very violent band and he had very graphic and disturbing images on his computer. Also, when the police came with a search warrant and searched through his room, they found a lot of junk in his closet like pipes and metals. In the story, Peter starts to explain how his best friend Josie started to change in seventh grade. She started to hang with the cool kids and she didn’t have time for him anymore. Josie is very depressed over the death of her boyfriend Matt. She misses him a lot and she always watches the movies she has of him. She tried to commit suicide by overdose but couldn’t find the strength to do it. She has changed from being somewhat happy in the beginning of the book to now being just extremely unhappy. Peter’s mother Lacy just wants everyone to understand that although they may have lost someone they loved, she also lost someone she loved and she doesn’t want everyone to be talking bad about Peter. Josie’s mother Alex can’t help but feel guilty for not being there for her daughter more in her lifetime and she’s doing everything she can to help her now in her time of need. She has to learn to separate being a judge from being a mother. I’m starting to get more and more into this book. I really like it and it makes me want to read more and more. I like when the author starts talking about the characters’ pasts because it connects other ideas and it gives me more insight about the characters. It gives me ideas on why the whole shooting occurred in the first place and it leaves me wondering. What I still don’t like is how the book will talk about one thing for a couple pages and then skip to a whole other subject. I wish it would focus more on that one passage more before skipping.  · 9/11 the collapse of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon  · Guns and the technology of them  · The author’s children were always made fun of and never fit in  · Car bombs and pipe bombs  · NASCAR

media type="youtube" key="1lKZqqSI9-s" width="425" height="350" || Tina Antonios __ Nineteen Minutes __ by: Jodi Picoult 125 pages by 4/3/11 With the help of Patrick Ducharme the investigators are finally unraveling more and more from the case. They finally discovered that Josie and Peter used to be best friends. The students were transferred to another school but it is an elementary school so it’s not as big as their regular school. Peter’s mother Lacy still can’t figure out what she did wrong with the raising of Peter. She feels likes she doesn’t even know him. One time when Lacy went to visit Peter, he had told her that his father Lewis hasn’t been visiting him so she decides to follow him one day when he claimed he was going to visit him. It turns out, every time he goes, he actually goes to a flower shop and then puts those flowers on the graves of the children who died. All the families are destroyed from the death of their children and Josie thinks that no one understands what she’s going through. She lost her boyfriend and the majority of her friends due to this shooting. I also found out that Peter and Josie used to work together and that they were starting to rebuild their friendship but then Peter decided to start a fire to get attention and Josie ratted him out and got him fired. While in jail, Peter has gained weight and he has built more muscles. He misses being able to go down to the river and he misses being free. One day while in jail, he gets a letter from a college student who wants to interview him. Her name was Elena Battista. It turns out, she was a reporter for //Time// and everything he said went into the newspaper. His lawyer, Jordan McAfee was upset with him because he is not helping himself with making himself seem not guilty. On the upside though, their relationship is building. Also, Judge Alex Cormier is the judge on this case and they just had the arraignment. She called the case to the Supreme Court but many people want her off the case. Alex won’t step down though. I really like this book. Every time I read it, I find out more and more. The clues just keep adding up and it’s all starting to come together. It makes me want to keep reading. It still skips to random parts though which I am starting to get used to but I now realize that the author does it to add suspense. It leaves off to keep you thinking about what will happen next. It will leave me off at an intense part and go to something completely different. · Columbine shootings · Paducah shootings [] · Author’s children never did fit in and were bullied · Gay clubs · Drugs and alcohol

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Tina Antonios __ Nineteen Minutes __ by: Jodi Picoult 80 pages on 4/10/11 The trial has finally begun. Judge Cormier recused herself from the case because nobody wanted her on the case. They hired another judge named Judge Wagner. Alex, Josie’s mother, is building a relationship with detective Patrick Ducharme. They have a romantic interest in each other and they were hesitant to tell Josie about it but she figured it out and she was surprisingly ok with it. Her real father had never wanted her and had wanted her aborted. She had previously made an attempt to visit him but when she did; he paid her to leave him alone because it would ruin his reputation since he was running as a political candidate. At one point in the book, Josie had thought she was pregnant with Matt but it was just a mistake and she never really was pregnant. After the trial began, the chances of Peter winning were very slim. Jordan McAfee, Peter’s lawyer, was working very hard to make his case sound reasonable. The judge called Peter’s psychiatrist to the stand and the psychiatrist had diagnosed Peter with Post Traumatic Stress disorder. He said that Peter did not know what he was doing in the 19 minutes of the shooting but he planned it out carefully before he had done it. Peter says that the bullies started it and he did it to get back at them. He wanted people to look at him for once. He had made a videogame on his computer that was about the so called losers in high school shooting the jocks in high school as a way of revenge. His psychiatrist said that Peter had begun to not know what he was doing after he was made fun of for sending an email to Josie telling her that he had feelings for her. Josie’s friend Courtney had told someone to forward the message to everyone in school so he got made fun of for it. Peter also wanted to explain his side of the story so he stood up in court and told his side of the story. He also said that he wanted to commit suicide. Earlier on in the book, Josie claimed she had forgotten everything about that day, but then Jordan McAfee had wanted her to be a witness on the case. She was not happy at all about this but she had no choice. She had to do it. When she went to go talk to Jordan, his wife had dropped her baby’s diaper bag and everything about that day all came rushing back to her. She told them that Matt had attempted to shoot Peter first when he dropped his backpack full of guns. Patrick then went back to the locker room to look for the bullet that should have come out of the gun that Matt shot and he found it in the drain of the shower. Josie had hated herself for being with Matt and she hated him but yet, she still loved him. She says that without him, she was no one and this whole time she was pretending to be someone she’s not. The verdict ended like this: Peter was charged with 8 first degree murders and two second degree murders. Basically, he is never going to make it out of jail alive. His mother Lacy is very upset that she will never see her son outside of jail again. Josie was charged as an accessory to second degree murder and accepted a plea of manslaughter and was sentenced to jail for 5 years. I loved this book. It makes people realize what really the motive of a murderer is. It makes people think twice before starting to criticize and say bad things about the murderer. They have a reason behind what they did and they have a story too. They shouldn’t automatically blame them even though they still shouldn’t have done what they did. You should really think about them too and not just take the victim’s side because in the end, the murderer was a victim also. In Peter’s case, he just wanted to fit in. I think anyone who is interested I law should read this book. It deals with a great amount of law. I also think people who are a victim of bullying should read this book because it could teach them a lesson not to let bullying affect them and it could teach them to go out and get help because it will help them in the long run. · Thurston high shootings · Paducah shootings · Rocori shootings [] · Columbine shootings · The author’s children were bullied · Post traumatic stress disorder · [] Violent video games · Pipe bombs and guns · E-mail []

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