Why did they do it
Eric and Dylan goes on a killing spree. Dylan was grounded because he would always get caught when he did something. Eric found a new friend and Dylan felt abandoned. Eric would always get out of trouble and Dylan would always grounded. Dylan would sit in his room thinking about killing himself and other people. He said, “ then he weighed the other option: He named a friend and he said will you get me a gun, I’ll go on my killing spree against anyone i want.” He was depressed because he didn’t have any freedom. He did not have anything to do but sit in his room. While his friend Eric got away with everything. Dylan’s second allusion is to murder. He was depressed because he did some stuff at the school.
Eric
took notice of school shooters. He started watching the news and he thought that school would be easy to get too. He thought if he could watch other people do it then he thought that it would be easy to go on a killing spree. Eric was going to kill people anyway because he thought schools would be an easier target. He was charming, cunning, and appalling. Eric wasn’t insane but psychopath was on the list. A psychopath is capable of anything. Eric wrote a dozen of journals. Eric says , “ so i must not be sidetracked by my feelings of sympathy, mercy, or any of that. I will force myself to believe that everyone is just another monster from doom.” He doesn’t like people at all. What made them click was that they was watching all the news and everything. They wanted to forget the jocks, goths, and the trenchcoat Mafia. They thought the school was an easy target. They could kill as many teacher and students and any other people they want. When they didn’t go to school it gave them a change to do what they wanted to do. They wanted people to know. In the end, they wanted it to be known in history.
This book was written by Dave Cullen published on April 6th, 2009. This story is a stated form of literature due to Dave Cullen directly stating in this story his reason for writing this book. Cullen was one of the first reporters to arrive to the site of this crime committed by Dylan and Eric, and since the day of this massacre Cullen had then spent ten years to publicize this very informative and crucial information for those who wanted the truth and nothing but the truth.
Robert Hare. “I want to tear a throat out with my own teeth like a pop can,” he writes in a journal entry, just months before the attacks (Cullen 294). Eric had a major sadistic side to him and dreamt of destroying the human race entirely. He found himself to be superior to nearly everyone. Hare created a special screening test used for mainly juveniles that listed ten hallmarks of early psychopathy. Eric spoke about nine of the ten hallmarks on his website alone, some in grave detail. But Dylan, on the other hand, showed none of these traits, except possible persistent aggression. According to Dwayne Fuselier, the head profiler on the Columbine case, Dylan hardly seemed committed to the plan the boys had organized. His main goal was to kill himself, not other people. “.......Good god i HATE my life, i want to die really bad right now,” he writes in the end of a journal entry (174). This is one of several times he talks about suicide in his journal. Sometimes, his self-hatred strayed away from exclusively himself to other people. These were the times
Christopher McCandless and Adam Shepard both did some similar targets in their lives, at the end it lead them to unexpected situations. Christopher McCandless was a young man who didn't believe in society and he chose to get away from that and left everything he had, including his family. He developed important relationships with key people that helped him on his journey into the wild. Similarly Adam Shepard was a young man who left with only $25 and a sleeping bag to go prove his point that the american dream does exist and to see if he can achieve it in a couple of months. Overall comparing McCandless and Shepard, Christopher McCandless had a greater impact in people, motivated many, and was selfish in plenty of good ways.
"Columbine High School Shootings." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015. Eighteen year old Eric Harris and seventeen year old Dylan Klebold were two boys with a fascination of violent video games and music. These young men were known to be “goth” and were bullied all throughout their high school careers because of their different interest. In 1999, on April 20th these boys went into their high school with mixed emotions and a devious plan to get revenge. The two teens went into the high school with handguns and killed both students and faculty members, before they turned the guns around on themselves. This is a reliable source because it informed us of both previous emotion, and the aftermath of the tragedy with detail about the boys, the school and the lives affected. This source was relevant for me because of how thoroughly it described the shooting, and gave me background information as to why and how it happened.
April 20th, 1999, Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, experienced a mass shooting. Thirteen people were injured and more than twenty were injured. Twelve were students and one was a teacher. Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on their high school for forty one minutes before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide. School shootings are notorious for making headline news but in 1999, school shooting were not as prevalent as they are in the present day. The media blew up on the catastrophe that was Columbine and many questions were raised, who were these kids and why did they do this? Speculation arose about why they did it. Maybe they were bullied for being goth and social outcasts or maybe they
The columbine massacre the day where no one is safe in school or out of school. The columbine massacre is about two students named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris both seniors 17 years old both two weeks before graduating they killed 12 students, one teacher, and 21 injured to their shooting on April 20, 1999. Both Dylan and Eric were some believe they were bullied by the sport teams in their school so they planned to kill the people who bullied them and other mostly anyone who gets in their way but that wasn’t really why the FBI he said that there target was everyone no one in pacify we will not get in to more details now. Dylan and Eric were both intelligent boys with solid parents and a good home and both had brothers younger than them. They played soccer, baseball, and both enjoyed to work on computers. Both boys were thinking on commit suicide on 1997 but instead started to plan a massacre in 1998 a year before it happened. Then the two boys had got into some trouble for breaking into a van on January 30, 1998 trying to steal some fuses and wires for bombs for them to make, but they got caught in trouble. So the court put them in a program called the juvenile diversion program, but even if they were there they were still planning the massacre and the court also put Eric in some angry management classes and people believe it worked but it didn’t he just did it to look like it work and both boys made it look like they were really sorry but they weren’t. Dylan and Eric both really hated everyone in their school and the court as well after they got caught breaking in to that van that’s when they really started to plan the massacre more and that’s when Harris started he’s journals no one really knows way but they didn’t hate a hand...
High school is a place where bullying, teasing, threats, humiliation, sarcasm, physical abuse and social isolation are commonplace. Almost 30% of youth in the United States are estimated to be involved in bullying as either a bully, a target of bullying, or both. (safeyouth.org) The shooters are usually among those who are tormented daily by their peers. Killing, then, is their act of revenge. Although this does not suggest that torment justify murder, it does illustrate that the hostile atmosphere of most high schools is a major root cause of the recent shootings.
...as. Their lives were endangered and the now corrupt Abnegation was the cause of it. Eric grew up in this world and he made himself into the hero to save it. All of Eric’s actions were made to save his family, friends, and faction. His actions were callous and heartless because he thinks with his brain, not his heart. He does the most logical solution to every problem and follows it through, no matter how malicious.
As the smoke cleared and the bodies were counted, it appeared as if Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had turned their hatred of fellow classmates into a killing spree no one could explain. Twelve students and one teacher were murdered and twenty students injured at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 before these two boys took their own lives. Although their plan had been to kill hundreds of people with guns and homemade bombs, what happened still shocked the community and the nation. After their deaths, light was shed on these two vicious young men who wrote in journals and made videos of their rise to fame by attacking those who, they felt, wronged them.
The American culture has been tainted with school shootings that are becoming a sort of tradition found in America. Most twenty-first-century school shootings have taken inspiration from the Columbine shooting, an event that has left a remarkable imprint on the future of school shootings and made the ones responsible infamous among them. In fact, Dave Cullen explores this idea in his nonfiction novel “Columbine”, where he illustrates the story of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and how the Columbine shooting was orchestrated, how it was carried out, and the aftermath that ensued, along with the pair’s psychotic paths that led to that event. Cullen’s argument was Eric being the manipulate genius behind the organization of the shooting while Dylan, who was not as psychotic, followed Eric through the event. One of the many
The shooters each had their own mental health issues, Eric, a psychopath, and Dylan who was a suicidal depressive. The boy and his radical behavior only got more deranged leading up to the shooting. The evolution of their actions is vividly described in the Violence Prevention After Columbine article. “Research on factors that place youths at risk of violent behavior suggests that risk factors tend to operate attentively. In other words, the more risk factors to which a child is exposed to, the added chance he or she might become violent.” (.157) This is the case with Dylan, and Eric their behaviors became obsessions at the time the severity of their illnesses was not clear, yet Eric did take anti-depressants for reasons unrelated to him being a psychopath. Nevertheless, if the boys had been acknowledged, diagnosed, and underwent therapy or medication their madness may not have reached the extent that it did. Unfortunately, no one noticed Eric or Dylan erratic behavior, it could have been that their peers neglected to acknowledge that something was wrong or they did not comprehend that their behavior showed signs of mental
In the short stories, “The Story of an Hour” (1894), by Kate Chopin and “A Rose for Emily” (1930), by William Faulkner, the protagonists live in a culture expecting women to be happily married. “The Story of an Hour” is about Mrs. Louise Mallard, a young woman that has to be carefully told about the death of her husband, Brentley, because of her heart condition. When she is told of the news, she locks herself in her room and will not come out. Eventually, when she exits the room, she sees her dead husband standing at the front door and dies of a heart attack. One article believes they put this ironic ending in because, “Physically, her heart was weak, and emotionally, it had no room for anyone else.” (Berkov 248). According to “A Rose for Emily”
Based off of this module, Dylan’s criminal behavior could be explained by Bandura’s social learning theory. Dylan is imitating and modeling the behavior that he was so fond of as a child living in an environment of family violence and abuse. Furthermore, the article states that he was “placed under the guardianship of the state when he was 11” and also that he “was lavished with weekends spent in hotels, at bowling alleys and at movie theatres” (Edwards, 2016). Other very important statements that followed were that he “was being rewarded for his bad behavior”, as “he knew the carers didn’t care and knew they’d give him all this free stuff for being naughty” (Edwards, 2016). After reading the article, it seems like both Bandura and Skinner’s theories apply to Dylan’s behavior. Dylan both witnessed (which is indirect) and experienced violence directly. With Skinner’s concept of operant conditioning, Dylan’s bad behavior was reinforced by the lavish weekends described. As such, he wasn’t receiving punishment for his bad behavior throughout his childhood, so violence and aggression was probably the most relevant model he knew how to imitate, as it was being reinforced as well. Dylan lacked guidance and lacked
James and his friends planned to go shoot up his house tomorrow night. That night he staying up and starting thinking about how he felt when his mom died and it made him even more pissed off. The next morning he was already, he got his gun and everything he needed to do what he needed get for his mission to get revenge. They all went to school that day so that way they will have an alibi if, that police came to their door also there was a dance that night too. They got tickets for the dance, they were going to go in his friend's car to the dance check into the dance and sneak out of the bathroom window and leave. Throughout the school day James was nervous and started to second guessing himself, all day was thinking about it. Hearing the gunshots in his mind seeing the guys body laying their. The time was coming close, he was getting ready to go to the dance, he was in the shower thinking about how guilty he was going to fill and what if he gets caught by the police? Will he go to prison? How will he take care of his little brothers and sisters? He starting thinking about all the responsibility he has and all the consequences that he will have to face when he does or if he does get
Narration is a form of discourse that describes a series of event. In its full form, it includes orientation (setting, participants), initiating event, and internal response by the protagonist, consequence, eventual resolution and evaluation. Narrative performance has been successfully used to discriminate language abilities in children with language impairment and children with learning disabilities from children with normally-developing communication skills (Blood & Seider, 1981; Bloodstein, 1987; Byrd & Cooper, 1989; Kline & Starkweather, 1979). The ability to narrate a story is fundamental to the development of overall communicative competence and involves the coordination of a variety of knowledge structures and linguistic abilities. One reason for narrative skills to be an integral part of language development is that it plays a critical role in skills underlying successful school achievement, including reading and writing (Snow, 1983; Snow & Dickinson, 1990; Watson, 1989).They have high ecological validity and it provides a test of language content form and use (Liles, 1993).