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Song Analysis: The Columbine High School Massacre

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• I chose this song because I’ve always been interested of what’s hidden in the mind of those mentally ill and their perspective and reasons of why they do what they do. The song is written from the perspective of a trouble and delusional kid (Robert) with homicidal thoughts in an isolated environment since his father’s absence had affected him and he eventually loses his mind and shoots his school. From what I’ve read, the band wrote this song based on the Columbine High School massacre in 1999.

o Anomie theory could be related to this song since the person that committed the crime has a lack of social standards and could be mentally ill from his isolation towards society and those in his school (there isn’t enough information but it’s a
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