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Summary Of Columbine By Dave Cullen

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Often times in news reporting, data initially gathered can be found to be misleading or inaccurate due to the lack of the reporter's knowledge. This held true in the event of the school shooting that took place on the campus of Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado on April 20th, 1999 in behalf of the frantic chaos. Dave Cullen gathers a wide variety of data on the myths, killers, and victims regarding the school shooting in order to construct a very precise report. Taking ten years to construct the story of Columbine was far from complicated when it came to figuring it out. In the book “Columbine” by Dave Cullen, several unknown truths are unfolded about the school shooting that shocked and confused many. Upon the beginning …show more content…

Unfortunately there was no way of actually interviewing the killers considering they committed suicide after carrying out on the slaughter. But in order to get all the info needed a great deal of research was done on the killer's background as well as the interviewing of family and friends of Dylan and Eric. This leads us to know that the two boys were actually two different people. Dylan turned out to be the follower of the two and was the creator of the bombs originally planted to set off but never actually detonated due to faulty wiring. Many of his writings discovered were about a girl he liked but as the day of the attack came near his writing urged of blowing up the entire school. However, it was a different story when it came to Eric Harris. Eric was the leader of the heist including when Eric, Dylan, and their friend Zach got together and ran “operations”. One other thing about Eric is that he had made it seem as if he was turning his life around after his acts of crime. His parents were fazed by his apologies and this gave Eric the chance to start planning out the attack on Columbine, during this time he was on prescription anti-depressants. The Columbine killers were two psychopath teenagers filled with rage and anger toward the

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Eric fell for it”(p. 46). By avoiding the use of unnecessary words, Cullen was able to get right to the point and write the event as it occurred, without added verbage that could lead to misinterpretation. With such concise language, the reader is able to understand and imagine the events that occur within the book. To educate, inform, and bring awareness to the horrible shooting that occurred at Columbine High School, Dave Cullen wrote his book, Columbine, in a clear, unwavering

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The police searched the boys houses for evidence. They looked into the boy past life and their childhood. The reporters took some of the student words and added more to them. Dylans funeral was an open casket. There was a myth going around that the boys were bullied and shot up the school to get back at the jocks and the people that called them gay and goth.

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believe a possible theme would be to always be prepared. Throughout the book, we can see that Columbine was completely unprepared. They did not have a set plan of what to do so students and teachers were running around panicking. This is one of the reasons that there were so many casualties.

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After the shooting, police and investigators found that Adam had an ID of Ryan Lanza, his brother. Ryan was falsely accused of having something to do with the shooting and was arrested. Ryan was released but was pounded with hate comments on social media. Ryan along with the whole Lanza family live with a constant shame and disappointment in their name. Adam might have tried to make it seem as though there was another person involved, but that doesn’t take away that he was the main murderer of this horrific

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