How would you react to a school shooting? Most people’s first reaction would be terrified and worried. Most would question why someone would do something like that. Columbine High School was one of the biggest high school shootings. Two teenage boys by the names Dylan and Eric were the ones responsible for the massacre. They were seniors from Columbine High School. Dylan Klebold was a senior at Columbine High School. He was a child of upper middle class parents, also gifted in grammar school. He didn’t feel like he fit in at Columbine High School. He soon then developed a hatred for school. Dylan was described as a shy child who loved baseball. Like many teenagers, he liked violent video games. He was very depressed. He had a journal …show more content…
He was the son of an Air Force pilot. He also seemed like a regular kid, playing little league baseball. The Harris family moved to Littleton, Colorado after Eric’s father retired from the military. Eric slowly began to change. Eric developed a hatred for the school and its jock culture. He also kept a journal, but it was less detailed than Dylan’s. He also had a website filled with hate lists. “If you haven’t made a CO2 bomb today, I suggest you do so.” (Cullen, pg.184). Eric and Dylan both shared something similar and that was the hatred for Columbine High School. During high school, Eric and Dylan became close friends. Anyone they believed mistreated them. They were both computer savvy and enjoyed violent video games. They both wore black trench coats and both studied German. They also became Adolf, Hitler, and Nazis. Harris and Klebold were arrested after stealing items from a van they broke into. For about a year, the two prepared for what they call “Judgment Day.” Harris wrote about their plans in his diary and they also made videos. They made bombs and had a few guns. Later, they ended up killing 13 people more than 20 were wounded at Columbine High
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
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.
Dylan’s death caused his parents to move to a new house. At the time of Dylan’s death, they were renting a house near the location of Adam Lanza’s residence. After two years, Mrs. Hockley told reporters, “Everywhere we go there are reminders. I will usually go out of my way not to drive by where the school used to be.” (Murray)
Columbine High School can forever be associated with the massacre that took place April 20, 1999. Dave Cullen, author of Columbine, captures the heart wrenching and cruel events that unfolded that April through his analysis of the normalities within the day and specific dialogue. Using many rhetorical devices, Cullen develops an agonizing emotion behind the terrible truth; it can happen anywhere. While spreading the terrible truth, he manages to also spread light on the events of April 20 in order to debunk bullying motives and help all people understand the idea of psychopaths.
The school shooting at Columbine high school was one of the bloodiest and atrocious school shootings in United States history. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris devised a plan to inflict as much terror as possible in their school as well as the rest of the world. Even though their original plan of detonating propane bombs in the school cafeteria failed, these two improvised and still proceeded with the massacre. Columbine was never about killing mankind; Columbine was a quest to ensure both killers would reach widespread notoriety.
The Columbine shooting is known as to be one of the worst school shootings that has ever happened in history. This shooting took place in a little town in Colorado called Littleton. The two shooters were Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold and they decided to start a school shooting on April 20,1999, and decided they were going to shoot up the whole school with guns, and bombs. Thirteen people were shot, and killed by the two shooters.
Eric did not care about any harm that was brought about and just wanted to bring horror onto the population and out do the Oklahoma bomber. Peter Langman in “Columbine, Bullying, and The Mind of Eric Harris” states “Eric had a disturbed personality with prominent antisocial, narcissistic, and sadistic traits.” (Langman) With being antisocial will create a divide with the population of the school he a attended and would lead a division. The Behavioral aspect of Eric Harris would go into how Eric was learning how to be a criminal mischief before the attack. Creating videos of him already committing mass murder.
Jordan Grant McCrady, 1 English 102 16 January, 2023 A Columbine Martyr April 20, 1999, was a day of absolute terror and devastation, as two troubled teenagers set out, after months of planning and preparation, to terrorize their high school just weeks before graduation. The Columbine shooting has gone down in history as the most deadly school shooting in American history with a total of fifteen killed (including twelve students, a beloved teacher, and the two perpetrators), twenty-four injured, and hundreds traumatized beyond repair. Years of investigating and speculating have caused mass confusion and hysteria regarding the incident. Countless conspiracy theories have been adopted, media outlets worldwide have picked up the story, and
At the time it was the most horrific in terms of the number of students killed, reported at 13 and 24 reportedly wounded. According to USA Today, Greg Toppo 2009, the two perpetrators of this tragic event had intentions of killing thousands. And the two, Eric Harris and Dylan Kleboid, were a contrast when compared to one another and again show why a profile cannot be developed and is a dangerous approach. The article reports the two were not bullied according to their diaries reviewed following their deaths. The two had actually bragged about being the bullies picking on “fags” and freshman.
The book “Rampage The Social Roots Of School Shootings” written by Newman et al, offers many different views and theories behind the issues of Rampage school shootings. In this paper I will give the reader an in depth overview and evaluation of the aforementioned book. Offering researched based reasons to why these school shootings actually happen. They explore the communities of Heath and Westside, the grounds of two horrific acts of rampage shootings by Michael Carnell, Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson. They explain various angles of there research such as identifying an issue, how signals given by children can be misinterpreted, the effects of social capital and how mental factors play a role in the acts of the shooters.
On April 20, 1999, two teens named Eric Harris (18), and Dylan Klebold (17), went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. They ended up killing 13 people and wounding over 20 others before turning their guns on themselves and committing
Columbine, by Dave Cullen is a non-fiction book documenting the horrific massacre which took place in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. Not only does the writer give great detail about the shooting itself, he also gives and in depth look into the lives of the killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and their victims. The focus of this book is for the author to attempt to bring to light what really happened and hopefully gain better understanding as to why it all took place. Cullen, a journalist, begins an extensive nine year research in order to achieve awareness of the happenings before, during and after this tragic event. Entries from the perpetrators personal journals, stories from the ones who witnessed the shootings first hand, countless interviews from the victim’s families, as well as multiple other pieces of information give the reader an extremely up close and personal surrounding Columbine.
On April 20, 1999, two disturbed teenage boys Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris began a killing rampage at Columbine High School in the suburban town of Littleton, Colorado. This was considered one of the worst school shootings to occur at that time. In the morning of April 20, before noon, the two juveniles had killed 13 people to include 12 students and 1 teacher; they also wounded another 23 people before turning the guns on themselves. This event would change the theories as to why school shootings would occur. (History)
As the video moves on, they use Columbine as an example of childhood violence. Being from Colorado, I remember what an impact this had on my school security. I didn’t notice it much in elementary school, but more so in middle school and especially high school. Getting into my high school was a task, there were many check points and security guards. My school was in a very privileged area so any time they thought there was any sort of threat the cops were there in a second, but rarely anyone was
The Columbine shooting was one of the first mass school shootings in the US, and it was one of the first school shootings on the national radar in which the shooters killed twelve students and one teacher. People sometimes admire these people and reason people try to replicate this shooting is because they sometimes idolize former school shooters. These followers will try and replicate the former assailants, in which inducing another shooting/mass shooting. It is purely disgusting that people would idolize the monsters that committed these terrible attacks on innocent