Columbine

light on the events, the motives, and the aftermath of Columbine than anything I had seen or read before. I think what the book does best, is balancing the story of the survivors, the investigators, and the community, with the narrative of the killers, which is paramount in answering the biggest question to come out of this tragedy: why? On the other hand, I felt sick reading this book, which I think is a result of growing up after Columbine (I turned two on April 20, 1999), the book played on…

The goal of Michael Moore’s documentary film, Bowling for Columbine, is to persuade his white, liberal, affluent audience to believe his theory that Americans (especially Americans living in the middle of the country) are trigger-happy, fearful people who rely on violence to solve problems. Moore attempts to establish the ethos of an “average gun-owning American” by describing how much he loved guns as a little boy and that he is a lifetime member of the NRA, but he undercuts his credibility by…

In the documentary Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore suggests that the American society has been warped by guns and by the violence that surrounds them. As he sets out to explore the obscure reasoning behind the events at Columbine High School which claimed many lives, Moore supports his stance by incorporating statistics, and anecdotal evidence from Americans, demonstrating the easy accessibility to firearms and the harm caused by their use. Moore strives to illustrate this brutality as a…

Reading 1: Genre The film “Bowling for Columbine”, a 2002 documentary by Michael Moore, is a brilliant example of the documentary mode: interactive participatory. Bowling for Columbine is an interactive participatory styled documentary written, produced and directed by the nationally acclaimed documentary writer Michael Moore who went on to direct Fahrenheit 9/11 aimed at the president George Bush and the war on terror. Michael Moore’s documentary style is described as neoliberal view of…

I do not think that Solomon portrayed Columbine too softly. Columbine becomes a looming background, as does Dylan Klebolds, as the story shifts focus to the parents of the murderer. Solomon begins the article by listing fact and data from the shooting: the date, names of perpetrators, their roles, the school, and how the massacre happened. This general opening is a bit of the already known narrative surrounding Columbine. It exists to show the fact, and Solomon follows the paragraph with the…

The film includes aspects of the Columbine High School Massacre where a total of 12 students were murdered due to a violent school shooting. A school is stereotyped to comprise of students encouraging one another with compassion and respect and for most parts this stereotype is true, however, cases such as the massacre at Columbine High School occur. Moore excels at looking into the violence that can occur in schools. Two students…

A documentary is believed to be real and full of true facts, though there are some films which have been heavily edited which result in manipulation of their audience due to change of facts. Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore, a documentary released in 2002, demonstrates the ways that composers manipulate their audience through editing, showing partial amounts of a story, taking advantage of the audience’s lack of knowledge and the selection of participants. Through the use of editing,…

shooting of Columbine High School in 1999 was one of the most eye opening and unexpected events of the 90s. All shreds of normalcy disappeared for teens and parents alike as a safe haven for children was turned shooting gallery. Many images that came out of Columbine were striking, heart wrenching, or maddening, but the image selected portrays one of the rawest emotions coming out of the tragedy: the unmeasurable amount of mourning and loss felt in the affected community. And sadly, Columbine…

The first victim of the Columbine Shooting was Rachel Joy Scott. “I’m not going to apologize for speaking the name Jesus. I am not going to hide the light that God has put me. If I have sacrifice everything… I will (Laura Collins3). Rachel wrote in her diary “I lost all my friends at school, now that I have begun to ‘walk my talk,’ they make fun of me.” (Sachin 2) Rachel was picked on about her religion she lost all of her friends they judged her for her faith. Rachel was committed Christian.…

Columbine. Some used to remember this as normal place to go to school. Now it’s remembered as the chain reaction of school shootings. Many students here weren't born before this terrible incident on April 20, 1999. It was a normal day at Columbine High School in Colorado when two bullied students decided they’d had enough, and went to shoot up the school. The the two students made a tape describing how they hated the bullies at their school and wanted revenge. Their names were Eric Harris and…