Hate List Heroes

The Hate List, by Jennifer Brown is a book that has many twists and turns. It is to find out if the "Protagonist" Valerie is actually a hero or if she is a villain. Even though there is an argument about how Nick is more evil it was Valerie, she made those plans to kill those people with three simple words "The Hate List". This is to show you how Nick was just the puppet of the shooting and how Valerie was the ringleader and she didn’t even know.

Garvin had a school shooting and the shooter was a guy named Nick Levil, he was the boyfriend of Valerie, the “Protagonist”, she showed Nick the Hate List and only thought it would play as a joke, only it went way too far. Nick shot a teacher multiple students and her girlfriend, he then took

it to himself and committed suicide. Valerie was really devastated by the death, one of her memories of him was written on page 49, and she said “We found a clearing and sprawled on our backs in the grass, looking at the stars , talking about… anything, everything.” She also talks about how they were so alike, she says throughout the book that “He likes to talk about death”. Even in the emails on page 150, he talks about how he wants “Gas over anything” and how he would “Turn on the car and just lay down on the seat and get high and get dead”. He then talks about how he wants to add someone else to the list, he wanted to add Ginny Baker. Valerie always puts “LOL” on her emails while Nick never does. Valerie even talks about how to kill the popular girls or the SBRB, or the Stupid Barbie Rich Bi***. She says “Wouldn’t it be great if all of a sudden the mall blew up and the SBRB Club was blown down to smithereens? Nothing but fake nails and blond hair all over the place. LOL.”

After the shooting one of Valerie’s biggest enemies tried to become her best friend because she saved her life.

On page 92 Jessica says to Valerie, “You can eat lunch at my table if you want?” Valerie says no politely and didn’t go. She then invited Valerie to go to student council to get her to help with a project because Valerie is artsy. Then Jessica’s brother Troy, threatened Valerie with a gun (Real Or Fake that is super scary) and told her “Don’t ever hang out with my sister again.” Valerie then ran off to a gas station and called his Father for him to pick her up and her Father and Mother just went through a divorce and they already weren’t talking because of it. Her father also found out that she was drinking beer at a party and went all crazy on Valerie. He kept going on about how “I would never let you go to a party.” and how “Your mother lets you do too much stuff.” He then went on to pull of of the highway and pulled his daughter out of the car forcingly. It almost seemed like he was about to ditch her, but then a girl came up to them and asked “Is everything ok?” Valerie’s father said “Yea we’re fine.” and so did Valerie. The next day, Valerie ditched student council and Jessica said “All you care about is yourself!” and Valerie thought about everything, she was a jerk to Jessica and all that she thought about was Nick when he died not her family and never came to his grave once. I believe that only is she a selfish person, but she doesn’t know how to treat

someone right even when they are dead. She finally went to Nick’s grave, but do you know who came to his grave every day, Nick’s friend Duce. You would think that Nick’s girlfriend would at least try to come every now and then, but only this for the first time that is pretty selfish in my opinion.

Valerie never knew what was going to happen, all the people that she would hurt. She never knew what was bound to happen, but she should have. She was the one to kill all those people, if Nick was never shown the Hate List, nothing would have happened. She should have seen all the warning signs. Valerie gave Nick a go talking about how she wanted the girls to blow up. Valerie came up with all of the shooting ideas and she never knew what she would bring to Garvin High School for years to come.