Summary Of Columbine By Dave Cullen

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

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