What Is The Theme Of This Is Where It Ends By Marieke Nijkamp

This is Where It Ends by: Marieke Nijkamp is a great book to read. This book comes from four students' point of views as they are victims of a school shooting. We will follow each character point of views during the shooting. While this book has not been made into a movie, it could very easily be put to music. A successful soundtrack for this book would include some suspenseful songs, since it is about a school shooting and the different backgrounds of the characters in this book
According to commonsense media, this book is a New York Times bestseller. Since the novel takes place in under an hour, the amount of violence is almost unbearable giving the reader few emotional breaks. To open up this soundtrack, I chose a song that a song would

I picked the song “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster the People. This song is about a school shooting, some people associate this song with the Columbine shooting incident that happened in April 20, 1999. While all the students were in the auditorium, Tyler went around and chained up all the doors that led back out to the hallway besides the one he used to get inside the adoration. Tyler is making comments stating he is thirsty, he then says, “All I ever asked for was a chance. A chance like you gave him or her” (Nijkamp 96). As shots were fired, students began to panic and run, in the song Pumped Up Kicks, the lyrics stated: “All the other kids with the pumped up kicks/ you better run/ better run, outrun my gun/ all the other kids with the pumped up kicks/ you better run, better run, faster than my bullet.” (Pumped up Kicks 11-14) With the students and teachers locked up in the auditorium, Tyler was at an advantage. Everyone was an easy target, especially the teachers up on stage and the students who were close enough in perfect firing range. This song also fits in with this part because everyone in the auditorium has no clue what is going on or why Tyler is committing this act of violence towards

Some write down people they never met before, some write down their friend’s name, and a few write down the name of a sibling. The song I used for the closing of this album and is a national heart touching song will be, “In the Arms of an Angel” by Sarah McLachlan. I chose this song because these students have gone through something that will completely change their lives and lost a lot of teachers and students. I feel like these lyrics, “In the arms of an angel/ fly away from here” (Arms of An Angel 13-14) and “You’re in the arms of the angel/ May you find some comfort here” (Arms of An Angel 19-20). It fits because the all have lost loved ones and even if some of them were a bit crazy, they are in a better place in the comfort of an