Final Response to "Columbine"

Ever since watching Bowling for Columbine I have always been interested in the topic of the Columbine shooting. I knew a good amount of background information about the two boys, Eric Harris and Dylan Kleboid, but this book provided the most in-depth look at Columbine that I have ever seen. It took the reader into the life of the two crazy high school teenagers. The book too you into the minds of these two kids and you could then see why they wanted to kill people. Dylan and Eric were mentally unstable and depressed. They hated a lot of different groups of kids and came up with the wrong way to deal with it, and that was to try to get rid of them. The Columbine massacre could have been much worse than it originally was if Eric and Dylan were successful in exploding the pipe bombs they had put in the cafeteria, and other places around the school. It was estimated that hundreds more students could have died if these bombs had been successful. This could have been the one of the worst disasters in America's history. A majority of the beginning of the book, Cullen goes into excruciating detail of what was going on at the school during the shooting. This section of the book was one of the hardest and most depressing things that I have ever read. To go into the mind of a teacher with a wife and kids, and have to learn about him get shot for trying to help students escape is an extremely difficult thing to read. One of the reasons why this was such a hard book was the fact that our school has received numerous bomb threats and that these kids that were killing and being killed are our age. It is all too real to even imagine.