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Kirsten R

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    Make sure to include the arguments, claims, and evidence you will use to avoid losing points on future assignments.
Megan Brown

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Nineteen Minutes Picoult Critique AEC

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  • Nineteen Minutes offers a fairly straightforward account of what could make a student turn against his (or, sometimes, her) fellow class mates
  • The relationship between Peter and his parents is given more space, but this could also have been examined more closely. Picoult appears to hold back from following up on the intriguing world she creates. Relating the role of parents in raising a child who ends up being a murderer is welcome, particularly when we are told Peter’s father lectures on the economics of happiness. Irony is heaped on irony with the descriptions of Peter’s mother, Lacy, as she is a midwife (and deemed knowledgeable on parenting) and is also seen to be as kind as she is inept in her understanding of her son.
  • This lack of awareness between the parents and child could have been squeezed for more material and this could have been brought about at the expense of editing out the less relevant musings of Alex Cormier, a judge and failing mother.
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  • hese parts feels bolted on and overdone, and have the effect of making the reader even more impatient for a greater insight into the thought processes of the bullies and victims.
    • Megan Brown
      Megan Brown on 30 Jan 12
       
      In addition to this, this section of the reading emphasizes the novels unimportant details such as the side story of Alex Cormier.  Her love life and marital situations do not relate to the novels overall ideas.  Instead, the major details, like the personality of Peter's older brother and Peter's relationship with his parents at a young age, are left to the reader to fill in missing information--resulting in negative opinions of the book if the unknown doesn't go the reader's way.
    • Megan Brown
      Megan Brown on 30 Jan 12
       
      There is irony added to the novel when the two things Peter's parents stand for the most seem to be what ultimately caused his colossal downfall: levels of happiness, and good parenting.
    • Megan Brown
      Megan Brown on 30 Jan 12
       
      This comment by the author further asserts that Picoult focuses too much on the minor characters and less on things worth discussing like the lives of the children who caused the bullying to occur.  What made the bullies act out in the ways they did? Who is the real victim in the novel, or is there even a victim at all?
  • Megan Brown on 30 Jan 12
     
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