For our last blog of the unit, we were asked to educate you more about this book. We are suppose to talk about the major themes or outcomes that are presest in Columbine. We were also told to put links on this blog that have to do with the book or have to do with the same themes. I am also going to put in quotes from the book that have to go with the themes as well.
One the of major themes that I found in this book was:
You can't run away from the pain of losing someone, even if it has been 5 or even 10 years since you lost them.
I find this very true. If you lose somebody that is dear to you in any way, you will never lose that pain of not being able to see them again or enjoy and share what you had with them when they were alive. You will always miss that person. It is showed very well in a quote said by Linda Mauser. She lost control ten years after Columbine while at the dentist. She told him that her son had died. He asked if it was recent and she responded, "'When your child dies, it's always recent.'" I believe that this quote shows exactly what the theme means. It's been ten years and her childs death still feels recent. The pain didn't even start to go away. You can't just get rid of it, you have to work through that pain.
There was another theme that I was able to get by the end of the book. To get to it though you have to realize that it seemed like Eric and Dylan wanted people to suffer. It seemed as though they wanted for the ones that lost someone that day to not be able to move one from that shooting. To not be happy or be able to succeed in the world ever again. So from this I draw my text theme.
You have to fight to get through things. You can't fall into the roll of what the person that hurt you wanted you to do in the first place.
The person gets exactly what they wanted if you fall into their wants. You have to stay true to yourself and be able to tell yourself that you need to stay strong. You have to fight yourself from giving into the person that hurt you. A quote that I feel shows this is one that Val Schnurr said. She said, "'To be happy and successful is the biggest F-you to them.'" I believe in this 100%. If the people are dead or alive, they will hate the fact that the person that they were trying to hurt was able to get past the hurt of what they had done to them.
The links below are links that have to do with Columbine. The first link is about a boy named Mark Taylor that got shot between 7 and 14 times while he was outside. It shocked the doctors that he survived and was able to recover. The second link is to a video taken the day of the shooting by Fox News. Both tell about the things that went on that day at Columbine High School.
http://www.erichufschmid.net/Columbine-DonnaTaylor.html
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3928749/columbine-10-years-later/
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