Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999, seniors Dylan Klebold (age 17) and his best friend Eric Harris (age 18) carried different types of guns and homemade bombs into their high school. After passing the school threshold, they decided to begin firing targeting their peers, teachers, and other faculty members at that time, causing one of the most tragic high school massacres of all times. When all damage was done, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris committed suicide, leaving 12 students and one…

pretty normal lives. Although Eric Harris’s motives have been made clear, it has been a little harder to explain Dylan Klebold’s involvement in the shooting. Klebold, who was depressive, saw Harris as a model and became vulnerable to his influence. An analysis of the relationship between the two shooters reveals that…

which was Eric…

The boys were able to execute their plan with little to no faults by hiding their destructive behaviour from their social and family life. Klebold masked his depressive state by putting on a hesitant persona which fooled many. Prior to the incident his friends identified Klebold as “too tall, too lanky, too ignored by those who weren't his friends.”(Dylan Klebold). Even his own parents succumb to their son’s trickery. His mother claimed she had no indication of her son’s suicidal state, “The…

had they seen what their children had become, they would have had them incarcerated or committed, Harris and Klebold's fault, they were psychopathic, psychotic killers who twisted and resisted every attempt to help or to stop them, and basically society’s fault all together, had the teenagers’ minds not been filled with violent images, they would have…

words, Cullen disentangles the violent psyches of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as they imagined, illustrated, and executed the attack in his nonfiction novel, Columbine. Disturbing accounts from the mouths of victims and parents of the shooters are also included to assure that no detail was spared. Eric and Dylan, seemingly lost in the teenage craze that is drugs, alcohol, and weaponry, bonded over their individual searches for a mortal purpose. Eric was a fervent follower of Nazi ideals…

was positively related to aggressive behavior and delinquency… and exposure to a graphically violent video game increased aggressive thoughts and behavior” (CITE). Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were known for playing the video game doom. In doom, you are known for being the first person shooter, basically becoming the character. Eric Harris even created his own version of doom, that was very similar to their actual attack. Within his version of doom, “there are two shooters, each with extra…

Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado is home to one of the deadliest high school shootings in United States history. On April 20, 1999, two Columbine High School students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, went on a shooting rampage at their high school (shooting teachers and students) killing fifteen, including themselves, and injuring twenty-four others. The two very-troubled boys hoped to kill thousands of people, but when their homemade bombs failed to detonate, they resorted to guns…

Introduction Unfortunately, there is always a stigma that comes along with mental illnesses. For example, if someone has crohn’s disease the person is deemed fine, just has a minor illness. But, for a person with a mental illness, it defines who they are as a person. They are not deemed normal or okay to society. Society allows the illness to define who they are instead of them being a great person who happens to have a mental illness or disorder. Whether the person is born with the illness or…

2001). Klebold even took the time to boast on video about exacting "the most deaths in U.S. history" (Larkin, 2007). Columbine was envisioned not chiefly as a shooting, but as a bombing on a substantial level. After the bombs were to have gone off, they prearranged to gun down escaping survivors. With the wiring being faulty and incorrect for the most part, the bombs did not go off as intended. The peak would be caught on live television for the world to see. These two were aiming…