Adaptation Of Columbine Reflected In Literature And Film

When the sun rose on the morning of the twentieth of April in the year 1999, it seemed like it was going to be just like any other Tuesday, but by the end of the day that turned out to be about as far from the truth as it could possibly be. That is because two seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, arrived at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and made that small town a talking point for years to come when they began shooting at both their classmates and the staff members of their school, before fatally shooting themselves in the library. The original plan Harris and Klebold came up with was even more destructive than the events that took place that day; they had bombs set in the cafeteria and were waiting by the doors to shoot …show more content…
Before the Columbine shooting, a large majority of fictional killers Columbine had been female, some examples of this being Carrie White from both the novel and the film adaptation of Carrie, along with Veronica Sawyer from the movie Heathens. However, since Columbine, this has changed, with fictional killers being males more often than they had been prior, while women are now more often the victims, (Evans 3) which can be related to Rachel Scott, who is notable for being the person killed during the Columbine massacre that is brought up more often than the others, due to an anti-bullying campaign that was started because of her aforementioned death in the shooting; which because of its association with her, Rachel has became considered by some to be the major victim of the Columbine shooting than the many other people who were killed or injured. Columbine has influenced the world to the point where fiction has been changed, which shows just how big it …show more content…
Because of Columbine, it started becoming more often for fictional killers to be male. Also, schools increased security to try and prevent another mass shooting; however, there have also been a lot more mass shootings as a result of the mass coverage of the shooting. Additionally, Columbine has led to the media having to deal with a lot more censorship, because it made added more terms to the list of sensitive subjects. Finally, Columbine added to the anti video game activism because of the belief that the game Doom made Klebold and Harris into the violent people that the massacre in Columbine made them seem to be, though neither of them were known to have histories of violence before the shooting. Because of its big affect, Columbine is one of the biggest shootings in the history of the world, and it probably always will be, because no matter how many shootings happen with more fatalities or injuries, it is not very likely that anything will ever be as influential as the Columbine High School