Nineteen Minutes, By Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the author of 22 novels. She got her Bachelor's degree at Princeton University in writing, then pursued and earned her Master's in education at Harvard University. She currently lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with her husband and three sons. Picoult's books are all written with chapters narrated from different characters. She does this to show different views of a situation and morals. Picoult is best known for her book My Sister's Keeper. It was published in 2004 and became a movie in 2009. Nineteen Minutes takes placed in modern-day New Hampshire in a city called Sterling. Sterling isn't necessarily a small town, having "1024" students in the high school, but it seems to get smaller when suddenly a tragedy strikes.
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Boys watched her as she walked through the halls, girls matched her style, and the teachers always favored her. Josie always seemed to fit in wherever, or whoever she was with... "but there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secret". There may be more to her than the eye can see. Peter Houghton, on the other hand, was the boy that nobody knew. That all changed when a private email, containing his love confession for Josie, was sent out to the entire school. Peter had been teased and bullied his entire life, and this only made it worse. One day when he tried to talk to Josie, a boy "hooked his thumbs into the loops of Peter's pants and yanked them down to his ankles". Everyone gets bullied sometime in their life; Peter was just the one who didn't know how to deal with …show more content…
You could find them together anywhere, but they started to drift apart when Josie realized that they were completely different people. People was bitter about this, and wanted revenge; not only on Josie, but on everyone who had ever hurt him. Nineteen Minutes is a book that everyone should read. It discusses moral values, gives lots of advice, and constantly makes you think. The book was written so that at the end of every section, you are left wondering what will happen. There are many different lessons for many different types of people; you would not regret reading this
Boys watched her as she walked through the halls, girls matched her style, and the teachers always favored her. Josie always seemed to fit in wherever, or whoever she was with... "but there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secret". There may be more to her than the eye can see. Peter Houghton, on the other hand, was the boy that nobody knew. That all changed when a private email, containing his love confession for Josie, was sent out to the entire school. Peter had been teased and bullied his entire life, and this only made it worse. One day when he tried to talk to Josie, a boy "hooked his thumbs into the loops of Peter's pants and yanked them down to his ankles". Everyone gets bullied sometime in their life; Peter was just the one who didn't know how to deal with …show more content…
You could find them together anywhere, but they started to drift apart when Josie realized that they were completely different people. People was bitter about this, and wanted revenge; not only on Josie, but on everyone who had ever hurt him. Nineteen Minutes is a book that everyone should read. It discusses moral values, gives lots of advice, and constantly makes you think. The book was written so that at the end of every section, you are left wondering what will happen. There are many different lessons for many different types of people; you would not regret reading this