Entry Seven: Outside Reading

Enough about my inner thoughts, back to the book. At lunch when Peter walked up to see Josie, who he thought liked him back, Matt pulled down him pants in front of the entire lunch room. How mortifying. The book slowing creeps up to the day of the actual shooting, and finally we're there! Peter said that his main target for the shootings was the jocks because they bullied him too much and it had to end. His claim, "They started it." And by the way, I forgot to mention that the detective, Patrick, that arrested Peter and saved Josie, is now dating Josie's mother, Alex Cormier. They're in love and he's always at the house, convenient. Because Josie was around and now involved in Peter's life we have found from their long history from childbirth, she is supposed to testify in Peter's case. Hard because Matt bullied him and she never knew that she was one of the reasons he was so unhappy. Here's the twist you never would've saw coming. Matt was shot twice in the locker room and no other victim was shot twice. Turns out, Peter shot him once and he couldn't have shot him in the stomach a second time because of the projector angle. Josie shot him. Her own boyfriend, I guess she was more loyal to Peter than we thought. Peter was charged with 8 counts of murder and 2 manslaughter. Josie went to a woman's penitentiary where she stayed for 5 years. In the end, Peter suffocated himself to commit suicide. The book closed with Alex and Patrick sitting at the one year anniversary of the shootings by the new glass atrium surrounded with a completely remodeled school claiming to be a safe haven after these gruesome events.

Entry Six: Outside Reading

Now that Joise was in the "popular" crowd she figured there was nothing else that she wanted. Even still though, she thought something was missing, like a puzzle piece. Only, you can't find it. Josie dated Matt despite the fact that he was flat out rude. Remind you of anyone you know? She tried to be nice to Peter, but didn't really make the effort as much as he did. Peter walked towards Josie to talk to her at school one day. Matt being the obsessive boyfriend he was, punched him. In awe, Josie didn't know what to do, but in my opinion, she could've done better. Rather than helping Peter, she leaves....with Matt. It's weird how people change, don't care about the past, don't make the effort for something that they might've made before. Later on in the book, we find out that Josie miscarried with Matt's baby. If she would've had the baby, would they have gotten married? Matt's abusive and yet, she stays with him, for the attention, superiority. It makes you wonder why people actually do this. Peter is still hung up on the way he feels for Josie. He's not gay like everyone assumes, he just likes this girl he has no chance with. Not a crime. Despite Peter's concerns, he writes Josie an email, a love email. Courtney, Josie's friend, receives it on the computer, only to do something dreadfully humiliating with it. First, Courtney convinces Peter that Josie likes him back and tells him to come see her at lunch. And to top it all off, she spams the entire school with the love email from Peter. Cruel. It almost makes me sick to my stomach just thinking of someone who would do that, try to ruin someone's life. The character is either too insecure about herself or truly doesn't have a conscience. Stay tuned.

Entry Five: Outside Reading

We come to find that Josie and Peter used to be best friends. Peter’s mother delivered babies and taught a class about becoming a mother. Alex Cormier, walked in one day, but left early. Peter’s mom, Lacy, tries to convince her to stay, but notices that Alex is too preoccupied getting to a court case. As time went on, Alex and Lacy meet up and Alex doesn’t know what to do with her baby. She had an affair with her mentor who was quite a couple years older. She told him she was having a child and he told her to get rid of it, but as time went on, she wanted to keep it because he told her she couldn’t have the job she wanted if she had it. Alex started over. With Lacy’s help, she had the child aka Josie. Ever since they were best friends and raised their children together. All through elementary school Peter was picked on, but Josie always stood up for him. School drifted on and they grew apart. Josie wanted so badly to be in the “in” crowd and eventually she did. Peter was still left at home, and what always greeted him was his older brother. His older brother was mostly favored by his parents, popular, A-student, but senior year he got in a car crash and his life ended. Peter never did live up to anyone’s expectations of him and was always angry that Josie didn’t like him the way he liked her. By sophomore year, Josie started to date a guy named Matt. Josie never realized it, but Matt didn’t treat her very well, calling her names, ordering her around, and not sharing her with anyone else. How can people not see it, the way other people treat them? Are they in denial, or really do they think it’s what a relationship is supposed to be like?

Entry Four: Outside Reading

The story of Nineteen Minutes starts out with everything you can do in nineteen minutes. It leaves you intrigued by literally everything you could do, but also why it pertains to the book. Alex Cormier is rushed to get to work, a court judge. Her daughter is Josie, a teenage stupid. The judge is nervy. Distracted. Then it flips to Peter Houghton, a boy that is one of Josie’s schoolmates. How they are connected? We have yet to find out. At school, the bells rings, like a typical day, and we all know what that’s like. The late night, roll out of bed, mosey to school with nothing to look forward to usually? Yea, like that. Except on this particular day, something drastic was going to fulfill the lives of every student on campus. A random girl had to leave school early to go the orthodontist. Now you may be asking yourself, who cares? But then, she heard a huge bang, a bomb exploding from someone’s car. Then bang, bang, bang. A detective, Patrick Ducharme, is radioed what he never thought he’d hear in his life. He books it to the school to be greeted with crying, screaming, a worst nightmare. It’s unnerving and freakish to think if this was you, the kid who was shot, the mother of a child in that school, or even a dog-walker across the street. Patrick bolted into the school, like the “Braveheart,” that he is and is looking anxiously for a sign, a piece of hope to get the bottom of this disaster. Finally he gets closer…

And closer.

The shooter was in the locker room next the gym. A boy sitting on the ground in the fetal position, but where is the shooter? Two people lay on the ground appearing to be unconscious. Dundundun, then we find that the harmless looking boy, is the shooter. Patrick gets a fellow companion to take him in to custody, we he sees one of the students on the ground moving. Just slightly, but she is moving. He picks her up, soaking in blood. Turns out, she wasn’t shot, but instead fell unconscious into the guy’s blood next to her. Who was she? What was her name? How could any of this have happened?