The book nineteen minutes by jodi picoult, which is about the shootings in columbine high school, contains many ideas for a thesis. Nineteen minutes was the second book ive ever read by her the first being, the pact when i was fifteen. This book shows a consequence that could possibly happen in reallife. Search the catalogue for collection items held by the national library of australia. In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. Its the driving distance from the vermont border to the town of sterling, new hampshire. She is glad she told the truth, but she still gets five years in prison. No student ever wanted to go back to sterling high. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Peter houghton peter is a seventeenyearold high school student who has faced bullying since the very first day of kindergarten. Chapter summaries of nineteen minutes by jodi picoult are not meant to replace reading the book.
Buy nineteen minutes by jodi picoult from waterstones today. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Jan, 2009 does anybody know where i can get a list of the characters from the book the 19 minutes by jodi picoult. The mass shooting takes place at sterling high, in new hampshire, and lasts for the nineteen minutes of the book s titular namesake. One major theme that took place throughout the entire book is the theme bullying. The friendship between josie and peter was not detailed enough at all, we didnt get an insight into peters thoughts and the idea that josie would accept her friends bullying just for the sake of popularity. Nineteen minutes, simon and schuster, 2007 464 pages. In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, teachingbooks supports the first amendment and celebrates the right to read. Peter and josie are very close friends as small children and really best friends. For your reference, we provided these nineteen minutes quotes with page numbers using the following version of the book. Nineteen minutes is the story of a school shooting that lasted nineteen minutes. The rest of the book bounces between flashback and the present. This theme shows up in many different parts of the book.
Nineteen minutes charts what happens the day one very unhappy and bullied schoolboy, peter houghton, decides that enough is enough and retaliates in the most drastic way imaginable. Nineteen minutes also features the return of two of jodi picoults characters defense attorney jordan mcafee from the pact and salem falls and patrick ducharme, the intrepid detective introduced in perfect match. He then decided to react and shoot 10 people at his school. The shooting happened at a small town high school in new hampshire, in an event that turned the town upsidedown. Nineteen minutes is the fourteenth novel by the american author, jodi picoult. Character analysis nineteen minutes by jodi picoult. After years of cruel bullying from his classmates, peter houghton snaps one morning. My sisters keeper by jodi picoult nineteen minutes by jodi picoult the pact by.
Her next book, handle with care, will be published in 2009. Rich with psychological and social insight, nineteen minutes is a riveting, poignant, and thoughtprovoking novel that has at its center a haunting question. They are meant to serve as a study guide to help keep the many events in this novel straight. Peter houghton, the seventeenyearold school shooter, changes the lives of many people on march 6, 2007. When the taunts become too much, peter stockpiles guns and bombs and perpetrates a mass school shooting at sterling high. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions in this catalogue which reflect the authors attitude or that of the period in which the item was created and may now. This is a valuable lesson in life, because bullying occurs everyday. The description of his life did not make me understand in any way why he would have done this. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. The book was a critical and a commercial success, and is the work for which jodi picoult is most associated. As in house rules the main character in nineteen minutes, peter, is a teenage boy who is different from his peers and suffers for it. Eventually graduating from princeton university in 1987, jodi performed a number of jobs before getting her masters degree from harvard university.
Jodi picoults 2011 release, sing you home, focuses on a lesbian couple who is fighting for the right to start a family. Peter had tried to help himself, take his mothers advice, or do anything to save himself from the torture, but nothing would work. Feb 05, 2008 nineteen minutes is argued to be one of her finest novels so my expectations were pretty high. The book includes a unique multimedia featurea cd of music that readers are supposed to imagine was written by the main character, who is a music therapist and musician. Everyone thinks they are above him and picks on him 247.
Peter had tried to help himself, take his mothers advice, or do anything. Matt royston josies boyfriend, who is a victim of the shooting mr. Nineteen minutes characters listed with descriptions. Jodi picoults nineteen minutes quotes archives famous. Nineteen minutes summary and study guide supersummary. Hopefully through reading nineteen minutes, a cycle of violence can be broken.
Which ideas you choose to emphasize would make up your body. Nineteen minutes is argued to be one of her finest novels so my expectations were pretty high. Josie lies in the whole book saying she forgets what happened, but at the end she admits to shooting matt to try and salvage peters case. Nineteen minutes major character analysis supersummary. Peter, a teen who has struggled to fit in and been the victim of.
Nineteen minutes jodi picoult, 2007 examines a school shooting in a riveting, poignant, and thoughtprovoking novel that asks a haunting question. In the aftermath, the towns residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the. This novel follows the unfolding of a school shooting, including the events leading up to the incident and the aftermath of the incident. In nineteen minutes the twist was apparent from quite early on and to me seemed rather unrealistic given the information in the book.
This lesson is very valuable and can inspire you to be a better. In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. He bursts into his own school, wielding four guns and apparently shooting at random until ten people are dead and another nineteen are seriously wounded. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. Nineteen minutes 2007 is the fourteenth novel by the american author, jodi picoult. The chapters in this book are named for time in relation to a school shooting at sterling high school. One character that played a large role in the book was peter houghton. Summary of characters from 19 minutes yahoo answers. Mccabe peters teacher, who is a victim of the shooting courtney ignacio josies best friend when she becomes part of the popular group. The mass shooting takes place at sterling high, in new hampshire, and lasts for the nineteen minutes of the books titular namesake. The description of his life did not make me understand in any way why he would. Jodi picoult, nineteen minutes it struck lacy that she didnt really know what color a chameleon was before it started changing jodi picoult, nineteen minutes there was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher. The popular kids, the cool kids, the outcasts, the misfits, the parents, the teachers, the psychologists, and society at large should read this novel. The book starts with peter rampaging through his high school killing fellow classmates and others.
Nineteen minutes is new york times bestselling author jodi picoults most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Nineteen minutes jodi picoult, 2007 examines a school shooting in a riveting. Jodi picoult has fifteen novels and three children to her credit, including her her bestselling books the pact, nineteen minutes and my sisters keeper. I picked this up not reading the synopsis and thought it was a book about teen. Her 14th novel, nineteen minutes, went to number one on the new york times bestseller list for fiction, and fans, if not all literary critics, will be pleased to know there is definitely more to come. You can read a story to a child or get your oil changed. Jodi picoults latest topical novel, nineteen minutes, takes its title from the duration of a highschool shooting rampage perpetrated by peter. He plays a main role in the book as the school target. The most major example is when peter, the murderer of 10 students, was bullied over and over again by his former classmates. Lacy peters mother is a midwife and assists alex josies mother deliver her baby girl. Nineteen minutes teaches to never bully anyone, because it could scar everyone around you. This lesson is very valuable and can inspire you to be a better person towards others.
All 103 characters in nineteen minutes are listed by chapter with character descriptions included. Nineteen minutes is a thriller novel by jodi picoult, centred around a school shooting in a small town. Jodi picoult nineteen minutes book trailer youtube. What would be a good thesis for a paper on nineteen. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Feb 05, 2008 jodi picoult received an ab in creative writing from princeton and a masters degree in education from harvard. Top 6 quotes from nineteen minutes free book notes.
Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult book club discussion. Jodi picoult has made a much deserved name for herself in the book community, with books like my sisters keeper and the pact under her belt. Over 12 million copies of jodi picoults books have been sold worldwide. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist. Peter houghton is one of two main characters in nineteen minutes. He used to be best friends with josie when they were younger, but she got caught up in popularity. The book begins one morning, when peter houghton enters his high school with a gun, killing 10 people, and injuring 19 others. At the end of the book, he and alex are romantically involved and expecting their first child. In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your ha. Apr 30, 2020 nineteen minutes by jodi picoult atria, 464 pp. This is a 10 quetion quiz about the book nineteen minutes by jodi picoult who is the school shooter in nineteen minutes. The shooting was a result of many long, hard years of violent, unbearable peer harassment and bullying to a boy named peter.
His actions dont just make victims of his fellow classmates, however. Sterling is a small, ordinary new hampshire town where nothing ever happens until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. It is estimated that there are 40 million books by jodi picoult in print in 35 countries. Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult chapter summaries. Peter is an awkward teenage boy who has been bullied his whole life. Nineteen minutes is a harrowing, suspenseful narrative about a high school shooting and its aftermath.