Understanding School Violence: Analysis of Jodi Picoult's Nineteen Minutes

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INTRODUCTION
When talking about school violence, it’s rampant in school and among the student is the cause of it, there are many students from a different background that they were brought by different behavior. “Studied of school violence have variously used terms a teen aggression, conflict, delinquency, conduct disorders, criminal behavior to describe the sources of the problem,” (Meadows 2014 pg.126), Some children have violent behavior in their blood may be because of what they have faced in their early life, their experience, even some are influenced by peer pressure and family, all this violent behavior make majority of student be a victim like peter case, what I think is lack of tolerance and he thinks people should be treated the way he was treated and the revenge is the solution to his problem. Some student doesn 't realize that a school is a subcultural place they can meet different race, skin color, physical appearance, religion, ethnicity and cultural difference, but being tolerance to other people is the key to solving the problem.
ABOUT THE NOVEL
In the novel Nineteen Minutes write by Jodi Picoult, this book examines the shooting in a sterling high school, Josie 's and peter shot ten people both …show more content…

They also contribute and influence bad and even student with good behavior, however, nobody can envisage, when and who, will become violent like peter case, he thought nineteen minute is enough for him to revenge. Nobody thought he can become violent even her teacher and his parent, he changes suddenly, Peter shot people and injured many students including his math

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