“Two ruthless killers picking off students indiscriminately”(Cullen 149) was Dave Cullen’s words agreeing with the Rocky Mountain News article about the tragic shooting. The media treatment and Dave Cullen’s treatment showed a clear contrast between what both of them thought about the killers. Through out the book he expresses many times that everybody had came to many conclusions with the right facts but the wrong answer. It was clear through the diction of the book that the words goth, TCM( Trench coat mafia), or just the word misfit were not able to fit Eric and Dylan. Eric and Dylan were “misfit geniuses” or so he took from the Eric’s journal talking about The Pastures of Heaven. As he went on in the book he separated the boys into different …show more content…
When he talked about Eric he described a psychopath: Charming, frequent liar, and killing is something that amuses them. “Dylan wasn’t planning to kill anyone, except, God willing, himself.”( Cullen 174). On the other hand the author used the words depressed, lonely, and sad to describe Dylan. Which was the total opposite from Eric. Dave Cullen went in depth about how he was just love sick depressed teenager. He was just a normal boy that was so depressed that he had thought to kill himself many times. “Eric’s plan offered the solace of suicide”(Cullen 295). Dave Cullen explained that was the reason for going through with Eric’s plan, an escape from the torment of being lonely and love sick. However despite the vast differences between Eric and Dylan, Dave Cullen had described a few similarities. “ Dylan took to referring to humans as zombies. That was a rare similarity to Eric.” (Cullen 182). When describing Dylan he had mentioned that with feeling lonely he had thought nobody had liked him and how he had thought the people as misunderstood. Dave Cullen had also made a point that both boys thought they were like gods and above the mere humans on