Juan-Felipe Arias
Ms. McHale
AP English III
September 5th 2016
A School’s Biggest Nightmare April 20th, 1999, Eric Hellis and Dylan Klebold walked into their selected High School and started to slaughter every living being in their sight. This horrendous act impacted all of America, including the author himself, David Cullen. Cullen then spends 10 years of his life writing about the massacre, putting together a New York Times bestseller named after the high school, Columbine. The overall idea the novel is trying to convey is to highlight the reasons why the killers killed and how the future of the witnesses were affected.
Cullens use of diction is distinguished through his words when he talks about the victims of the massacre. Cassie …show more content…
He knew Dave Sanders had gone down there. He had not anticipated the stains. “You could see the knuckle prints,” he said. “He actually was on all fours and there were his knuckle prints—he was struggling. It tore me up” (Cullen 120). This quote exhibits Cullen’s use of imagery to provoke gruesome images of the massacre in the audience's head “It was horrible. The room was a shambles; blood spattered the furniture, and enormous pools soaked into the carpet” (Cullen 83). These scenes from the novel truly reveal the dreadful outcome of the actions of these psychopaths.
Overall, Columbine was a book full of sorrow and empathy for the victims whom did not deserve to be killed. I feel as though the novel provided the readers with a different perspective of the massacre through the eyes of the victims and the shooters themselves. David Cullen also writes in a way for us to remember the victims not just as someone who died that day, but also as actual people with interests and dreams for the future which they unfortunately will never get the chance to
Ms. McHale
AP English III
September 5th 2016
A School’s Biggest Nightmare April 20th, 1999, Eric Hellis and Dylan Klebold walked into their selected High School and started to slaughter every living being in their sight. This horrendous act impacted all of America, including the author himself, David Cullen. Cullen then spends 10 years of his life writing about the massacre, putting together a New York Times bestseller named after the high school, Columbine. The overall idea the novel is trying to convey is to highlight the reasons why the killers killed and how the future of the witnesses were affected.
Cullens use of diction is distinguished through his words when he talks about the victims of the massacre. Cassie …show more content…
He knew Dave Sanders had gone down there. He had not anticipated the stains. “You could see the knuckle prints,” he said. “He actually was on all fours and there were his knuckle prints—he was struggling. It tore me up” (Cullen 120). This quote exhibits Cullen’s use of imagery to provoke gruesome images of the massacre in the audience's head “It was horrible. The room was a shambles; blood spattered the furniture, and enormous pools soaked into the carpet” (Cullen 83). These scenes from the novel truly reveal the dreadful outcome of the actions of these psychopaths.
Overall, Columbine was a book full of sorrow and empathy for the victims whom did not deserve to be killed. I feel as though the novel provided the readers with a different perspective of the massacre through the eyes of the victims and the shooters themselves. David Cullen also writes in a way for us to remember the victims not just as someone who died that day, but also as actual people with interests and dreams for the future which they unfortunately will never get the chance to