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Nineteen Minutes Free FREE NINETEEN MINUTES PDF Jodi Picoult | 608 pages | 15 Aug 2013 | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | 9781444754360 | English | London, United Kingdom Nineteen Minutes Quotes | Explanations with Page Numbers | LitCharts Created by the original team behind Nineteen Minutes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides. The Family That Writes Together. Picoult has co-written two young adult novels with her daughter, Samantha van Leer. A Literary Universe. Nineteen Nineteen Minutes. Plot Summary. All Themes Victims vs. Perpetrators Vengeance vs. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Teach your Nineteen Minutes to analyze literature like Nineteen Minutes does. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of every Shakespeare play. Sign Up. Already have an account? Sign in. From the creators of SparkNotes, something better. Sign In Sign Up. Literature Poetry Lit Terms Shakescleare. Download this LitChart! Teachers and parents! Struggling with distance learning? Nineteen Minutes Teacher Nineteen Minutes on Nineteen Minutes can help. Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Nineteen Minutes Study Guide Next. A concise biography of Jodi Picoult plus historical and literary context for Nineteen Minutes. In-depth summary and analysis of every chapter of Nineteen Minutes. Visual theme-tracking, too. Explanations, analysis, and visualizations of Nineteen Minutes 's themes. Nineteen Minutes 's important quotes, sortable by theme, character, or chapter. Description, analysis, and timelines for Nineteen Minutes 's characters. Explanations of Nineteen Minutes 's symbols, and tracking of where Nineteen Minutes appear. An interactive data visualization of Nineteen Nineteen Minutes 's plot and themes. Nineteen Minutes wrote her first story at the age of five, and graduated with a BA from Princeton inwhere she studied creative writing. She published her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whaleinand since then has gone on to publish two dozen more. Her novels are often inspired by current events, especially timely social problems facing American society, including racism, euthanasia, and the death penalty. She is Nineteen Minutes and has three children; she says that Nineteen Minutes was partially inspired by witnessing the problem of bullying via Nineteen Minutes children. She lives in Hanover, New Hampshire. Historical Context of Nineteen Minutes The most important historical phenomenon connected to the novel is, of course, school shootings. While school shootings are not unique to the U. Some of the most high-profile school shootings that have taken place in recent years include the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in and the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Yet while the number of school shootings Nineteen Minutes place in the U. These events were the Heath High School shooting, which took place in Kentucky inand the Columbine High School massacre, which occurred in Colorado in Other historical events connected to the novel include the terrorist attacks of September 11, which Nineteen Minutes described in the novel as occurring when the main characters, Nineteen Minutes and Josie, have just started middle school. These attacks led to increased anxiety in the U. The rise of the internet and the problem of cyberbullying and online radicalization also prominently feature in the novel. Nineteen Minutes also Nineteen Minutes a novel about a school shooting originally published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman called Rage. It is worth noting that, chillingly, this novel is known to have inspired several real-life shooters. Due to the ongoing prevalence of school shootings in the U. Cite This Page. Home About Story Contact Help. LitCharts uses cookies to personalize our services. By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie PolicyPrivacy Policyand Terms of Service. Nineteen Minutes Study Guide. Next Summary. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Nineteen Minutes is the fourteenth novel by the American author, Jodi Picoult. The story begins Nineteen Minutes March 6, in the small town of Sterling, New Hampshiretracking Nineteen Minutes lives of a number Nineteen Minutes characters on an "ordinary day. At the local high school, Sterling High, Nineteen Minutes story follows a routine day of students in classes, at the gym, and in the cafeteria. Suddenly, a loud bang is heard Nineteen Minutes the parking lot, which Nineteen Minutes out to be a bomb set off in Matt Royston's car. As Nineteen Minutes students are distracted by the noise, gunshots are fired. When Patrick, the only detective on the Sterling police force, arrives at Sterling High, he searches the school to seek out the gunman, who is alleged to be a student. After passing several dead and wounded victims, Nineteen Minutes traps and arrests the shooter, Nineteen Minutes Houghton, in the locker room, where he finds two students, Josie Cormier and Matt Royston, lying on the floor surrounded in Nineteen Minutes. While Matt is dead, having been the only victim shot twice, Josie is not seriously injured, but only shocked: she cannot remember what happened. Throughout the book, time flashes back and forth between events before and after the shooting. In the past, the reader learns that Peter and Josie were once close friends. Peter was frequently the target of severe bullying at school, and Josie often stuck up for him. The Nineteen Minutes slowly drifted apart as they got older: Josie joined the popular crowd in order to protect her own interests, seeing her relationship to Peter as embarrassing. The story pictures Peter as an outcast at home as well; Peter believes his older brother Joey is favored by their parents. Joey is a popular straight- A student and athlete, but feels it necessary to ridicule Peter to protect his reputation, even fabricating a story that Peter was adopted. When Joey is killed in a car accident inLacy and Lewis Houghton are too upset to pay attention to their remaining son, causing a bigger rift between Peter and his parents. In their sophomore year, Josie begins dating Matt, a popular jock who Nineteen Minutes his friends Drew Girard and John Eberhard in bullying Peter. Matt often calls Peter "homo" and "fag," leading Peter to question his sexual orientation. The bullying intensifies once Matt begins dating Josie, in his possessive efforts to keep Nineteen Minutes away from other boys. On one occasion, Nineteen Minutes approaches Josie after school to try talking to her. Matt beats Nineteen Minutes up, leaving Nineteen Minutes humiliated in front of the school. The flashbacks also reveal several subplots: the difficult relationship between Josie and her single mother Nineteen Minutes, Alex's dilemma of being a judge and a mother, Peter's escape from bullying into the world of video games, Josie's fear of falling out of the popular crowd and her suicide back-up plan when she does, Matt's abusive behavior toward Josie, Josie's pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage, as well as Lewis Houghton's hunting lessons with his son Peter. One month before the shooting, Peter realizes that he has feelings for Josie, and sends her Nineteen Minutes email expressing his love. Courtney Ignatio reads this email before Josie and has Drew forward it to the entire school. Courtney then convinces Peter that Josie likes him. Peter asks Josie to join him later during lunch, Nineteen Minutes to suffer public humiliation as Matt pulls down Peter's pants and exposes his genitals to a cafeteria full of students. Peter's psychotic break is triggered on the morning of the shooting when he turns on his computer Nineteen Minutes accidentally opens the email he wrote to Josie. After the shooting, Peter is sent to jail while the trial proceeds. The probable cause hearing is waived as Peter admits to killing ten people and wounding nineteen others. Jordan argues that he was in a dissociative state at the time of the shooting. In the final stage of the trial, Josie reveals that she was the one who shot Matt the first time in the stomach after grabbing a gun that fell out of Peter's bag. She admits later that she did this on account of the abusive behavior that she had endured while in a relationship with him. Peter later fired the fatal second shot; a blow to the head. Peter promised her he wouldn't tell anyone what she had done, and he kept this promise, happy to have Josie as his friend again. Peter is convicted of eight counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder and is sentenced to life in prison. A month afterward, Peter commits suicide by stuffing a sock into his throat. At the end of the book, one year from the date of the Nineteen Minutes, Josie has received a five-year sentence for accessory of manslaughter and is regularly visited in Nineteen Minutes by her mother. Throughout the book, Josie never told the whole story, instead repeating, "I can't remember. Alex and Patrick, who are expecting their first child, walk the halls of the high school. Sterling High has been extensively remodeled after the shooting. The cafeteria, the gym and locker room where the massacre took place have been replaced by a large glass atrium with a memorial to the dead in the center, a row of ten white chairs bolted to the floor. A plaque declares the building "A Safe Harbor. The book received generally favorable reviews by critics, for the writing, character development, [2] plot twists, and the moral issues raised, including peer pressure, Nineteen Minutes, self-image, school bullying, betrayal and deception, Nineteen Minutes orientation doubt, teen dating violencesuicide, video game violence, single parenthood and communication barriers between adolescents and adults. The Associated Press acknowledged that although Peter's guilt cannot be in doubt from a legal perspective, it is hard for readers to know where to put the blame as the story unfolds.
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