“This is Where it Ends” is a young adult novel written by Marieke Nijkamp. It was originally published in 2016. The story is set at Opportunity High School, a fictional high school in a fictional town, Opportunity, Alabama. The entire story unfolds within the campus, mostly in the auditorium where an assembly takes place. The novel explains the terrifying events of a fifty-four-minute school shooting, exploring the themes of courage, grief, and resilience. "This is Where it Ends" is told from the perspectives of four different main characters. Autum Browne, Slyvia “Sylv” Morales, Tomas Morales, and Claire Morgan. Each perspective offers a personal insight into the unfolding events of the school shooting. Autum Browne is a popular student and …show more content…
Claire is in track practice and Tomas is in the principal’s office secretly looking for a file with his friend, Farred. Autum and Sylvia are in the auditorium listening to Principal Trenton’s speech. The assembly soon ends and students get up to leave the auditorium, finding all doors locked. Thats when Tyler enters, and his first victim is the principal. He then began to selectively choose students to be his next victim. Tomas and Fareed hear the shots still in the principal’s office and they come up with a quick solution. Their plan was to alert the police first, then attempt to break the locks. While this was happening, Claire was with her team at practice. Hearing the shots, she and her teammate, Chris, ran off campus to find a gas station and called for help. On this trip, they are met by police cars, who have already been alerted by Fareed’s call, and take them back to campus. Fareed and Tomas managed to budge some locks. Tomas alerts Sylv and she, Tomas, and Fareed quietly get people out of the auditorium row by row while Autum distracts Tyler. Arguing with Autum, Tyler hits her with his gun and turns around, seeing the now almost empty auditorium. Quickly, he rushes out the door to find students. Left in the auditorium, Autum cares for Claire’s brother, Matt, who is …show more content…
They find an unlocked classroom and use the window to get onto the roof. Fareed steps out first, and before Sylv steps out, she and Tomas apologize for being so distant from each other. At the last minute, Tomas jumps back into the classroom to distract Tyler, knowing it would give Sylv enough time to escape. He encounters Tyler in the hallway. After a quick confrontation, Tyler shoots and kills Tomas. Sylvia struggles to open the heavy window. Just as she gets into the classroom, she hears gunshots, knowing her brother is now
Lisa Genova, the author of Still Alice, a heartbreaking book about a 50-year-old woman's sudden diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. She is a member of the Dementia Advocacy, Support Network International and Dementia USA and is an online columnist for the National Alzheimer's Association. Genova's work with Alzheimer's patients has given her an understanding of the disorder and its affect not only on the patient, but on their friends and family as well (Simon and Schuster, n.d.).
After the Bomb written by Gloria Miklowitz is a thrilling novel that takes place before, during, and after a bomb which supposedly was sent from Russia by accident. L.A. and surrounding cities are all altered by the disastrous happening.
The fourth Chapter of Estella Blackburn’s non fiction novel Broken lives “A Fathers Influence”, exposes readers to Eric Edgar Cooke and John Button’s time of adolescence. The chapter juxtaposes the two main characters too provide the reader with character analyses so later they may make judgment on the verdict. The chapter includes accounts of the crimes and punishments that Cooke contended with from 1948 to 1958. Cooke’s psychiatric assessment that he received during one of his first convictions and his life after conviction, marring Sally Lavin. It also exposes John Button’s crime of truancy, and his move from the UK to Australia.
Macey gets involved with a Saturday group, where they go and paint a church in a bad part of the neighborhood. While they paint at the black church, an arson walks by smoking, and seeing the open cans of paint and turpentine, throws a match into the church. Setting it into blazes. The whole group, including, Macey, Austin, Venita, Lindsay, Grace, Chamique, and Davonn. They end up getting stuck because of a fire exit being blocked from the outside, because a few weeks before a 4 year old was stabbed by an intruder who got in this way. Macey’s hair caught fire while she was running out. Austin, put it out in time to save her face from burning with his shirt. Lindsay and Grace, Macey’s best friends, were very supportive when Macey’s hair all burned off and got her to a stylist to get it fixed.
Homesick is a novel that exposes many different relationships, the strength of relationships, and how they can endure tremendous pain. The various relationships between Alec and Vera, Alec and Daniel, and Vera and Daniel are considerably different because of the variation in generation represented by each character. Each relationship in this family has its strengths and weaknesses depending on the past of the relationships. The relationships in the novel Homesick are seen through all of the character's eyes, so we can see how each character felt about the other characters. These characters do not tend to say what they think, we can see this many times throughout the novel. These relationships can be observed by seeing how they act, speak, and treat one another.
A long, long time ago, God decided to punish the wicked people, but before he did that, he instructed Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal he can find along with his family. Animals and humans. The book I would like to use throughout this essay is “ Crossing ,” by Gary Paulsen. This book took place in Juarez, Mexico, where a bridge could mean so much. Each character in this book was being compared to an animal, to make us more understand about each of them. Each of them are also different. From the shape of their eyes, the way they react to something, and those are what made each of them different and special. Paulson compares animals and humans by their simliar characteristics and their behaviors.
Sanity is subjective. Every individual is insane to another; however it is the people who possess the greatest self-restraint that prosper in acting “normal”. This is achieved by thrusting the title of insanity onto others who may be unlike oneself, although in reality, are simply non-conforming, as opposed to insane. In Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, this fine line between sanity and insanity is explored to great lengths. Through the unveiling of Susanna’s past, the reasoning behind her commitment to McLean Hospital for the mentally ill, and varying definitions of the diagnosis that Susanna received, it is evident that social non-conformity is often confused with insanity.
For as long as man has walked the earth, so has evil. There may be conflicting moral beliefs in this world, but one thing is universally considered wrong: serial killers. Although some people may try to use insanity as an explanation for these wicked people, they cannot explain away the heartlessness that resides in them. As shown in The Stranger Beside Me, infamous serial killer Ted Bundy is no exception to this. Even though books about true crimes may be considered insensitive to those involved, the commonly positively reviewed book The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule handles the somber issue of Ted Bundy’s emotionally destructive early life and the brutal crimes he committed that made people more fearful and aware of the evil that can exist in seemingly normal people well.
He starts moving the knife and points at Jimmy (Dam loser he has to use a knife). Jimmy now has lost all hope of someone helping him and tries to get out of the grip, but Chomp has twice the strength of Jimmy. So he cried and told him he would stop “just don’t kill me”. Noah Just kept walking closer to Jimmy and Noah stabbed him in the abdomen, Shaking and moving the knife while it is still inside of Jimmy. Then Noah and Chomp ran out of the restroom and out of the school. They never came back to school. When medicals came Jimmy and Tom were in mortal danger. Tom was in the hospital for a week Jimmy was in a coma with his stomach destroyed and could possibly
In the short story “Being There”, by Jerzy Kosinski, there are multiple examples of satire that are displayed throughout both the book and the movie. A few of them are: media, death, politics, and racism. The satire of the media was very similar in the book and the movie. Media played a big role in society and still does to this day.
see how an author could write a book with such a short and sudden ending. The last
In his novel Being There, Jerzy Kosinski shows how present day culture has strayed away from the ideal society that Plato describes in his allegory of the cave. In his metaphor, Plato describes the different stages of life and education through the use of a cave. In the first level of the cave, Plato describes prisoners who are shackled and facing a blank wall. Behind them is a wall of fire with a partition that various objects are placed and manipulated by another group of people. These shadows are the only action that they ever see. They can only talk to the surrounding prisoners, and watch the puppet show on the wall in front of them. Naturally, the prisoners come to believe that the shadows on the wall in front of them are reality. The second level of the cave is where a prisoner is released of the chains and is forced to look at the light of the fire behind him. The light hurts his eyes, and after a moment of pain and confusion he sees the statues on the partial wall in front of him. These were what caused the shadows that he took to be reality. This enlightenment is the start of education for the prisoner. He then is taken from the cave into the light of the sun. At first the prisoner can see only shadows, then reflections, then real people and things. He understands that the statues were only copies of the things he now sees outside of the cave. Once he is adjusted to the light, he will look up to heavens to gain a true understanding of what reality is. This is what Plato refers to this understanding as the Form of Goodness. In Being There, Chance is in the deepest part of the cave, yet the world around him is too ignorant to realize this (Johnson 51-54)
Sylvia Barret, a new teacher is starting her first day in room 304. She finds out that teaching isn’t all that she thought it would be. Her first friend is Bea a veteran teacher who helps Sylvia out by explaining how Calvin Coolidge high works. The writer takes all the craziness of a normal high school and embellishes them; for instance the school guidance counselor is always using big words and thinks all the students need help. And Mr. Mchabe the administrative assistant who is nosy about everything. The Janitor who is never available.
In this paper, I've decided to discuss the principles of Chester I. Barnard and the principles of Henri Fayol.
the end of the novel as both the women in his life have other men at