She Said Yes Summary

The book I read for my book report was “She Said Yes”. It is wrote from a mothers’ perspective of the worst day of her life. The book is based on a true story. The setting is April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School. There are not really any characters in the book because it is based on true story. So the only character is Cassie Bernall. The book is about a girl who lived a normal Christian life she went to church, participated in school, and was very outgoing.
The morning of the massacre Cassie and her family got up got ready for school and work. Her mother states in the book “I got that morning with a feeling something was going to happen but I never knew it was going to be something this bad”. Her mothers’ whole world was turned upside down at lunch when she heard there was trouble at the school. She heard two gunmen had gone on a rampage, setting off bombs and shooting students in the school. All the parents were sent to two different locations to find the news of the children the parents didn’t know what each location meant, one was for the children who were missing/dead and the other was for the kids who they knew were alive and could be reunited with their parents. Misty Cassie’s mother refused to believe her daughter was dead it wasn’t until the next day when that nightmare became true the corners office called Misty …show more content…
Soon the events were clear and Cassie’s mother was sad yet proud of her daughter. You see the reason why she was killed was because she stood up when the gunmen had to them to stay on the ground and not make a sound. When she stood up they panicked and asked her if she believed in God and her response was “Yes” one word three letters that cased this girl’s life. In just a short year Cassie had accepted Jesus into her life and it was coming to an end because of her