Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes. Washington: Square Press, 2007. Print.
The AMDSB character attribute I have chosen to write about is fairness, or lack of for that matter. This book is about a school shooting and the effects it has on so many people, including but not limited to the families, the students and the community. Peter Houghton, a 17 year old 'nerd' is the shooter. He doesn't believe the killing of 10 students and physical and emotional pain he caused on so many others is wrong, because of the way they treated him. Peter was treated extremely unfair as a child. When the book takes a look back at his childhood, it states that he was a nice, sweet little boy who never did anything to get treated the way he did. But time after time he is bullied, which is what causes the anger inside of him. Now he believes it's their turn for unfair treatment. He ruins the lives of so many people, as revenge for his own struggles in life. Neither Peter's nor the people killed had fair situations, yet they both unforutetly happened.
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