Dear Jodi Picoult,
I’m currently reading your book Nineteen Minutes and I like it very much. So far, I’ve grasped that the plot is about a school shooting at Sterling High School and the mystery of what actually happened. At first I asked myself why you’d chose to write about a topic like this but then I read that your own children have struggled with making friends and so you considered this topic. I also wondered if you were making any connection or basing the book off of the Columbine or Virginia Tech shootings? In the first chapter, there were lots of great descriptions of what Peter Haughton was doing and I wanted to know if you did a lot of research on school shootings? Did you interview past victims to get the emotions or thoughts they were feeling? Or did you research the actions of the shooters in incidents like Columbine? Lastly, while reading I’ve read two letters or notes that a character has written and I wanted to know who was the speaker? I think it may be Josie because she says she doesn’t like her life, but then again Peter was the shooter who was possibly getting “revenge”. I find your book a breathtaking story so far and am curious to see what the outcome of this tragic incident is.
Sincerely,
Emily
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*Random question: In the end of chapter one, Patrick finds Josie unconscious but not wounded in the locker room with Peter and Matt (who is now dead). I was curious to know why Josie wasn’t shot. Is it because Peter’s mom and Josie’s mom are/were friends? I’ve read that Josie and Peter were friends in kindergarten, are they still friends now?
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I have never read 19 Minutes, but i have read a few other Jodi Picoult books and i have really enjoyed them. I am interested to see if you like this one, and maybe I will have to read it some time. Have you read any of her other books, if so how do you like this one compared to the others.
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