Week 2, Post B

Dear Peter,

When you were in kindergarten, you were picked on like a little chick in an incubator. Although you were "sensitive and sweet [...] the other little boys would see that as a weakness, and exploit it"(72). Except for when your mother told you to "stick up for yourself"(72), or she will punish you, things only got worse. You wanted people to like you and the only person who did was Josie. Nothing was wrong with you, kids just noticed how sensitive you were and wanted to ruin your life. But eleven years later, and still being picked on, your emotions take a whirlwind, and you decide to do something unacceptable. It's horrible that kids would put you down in order to make themselves feel good about themselves, but it's even worse that you brought a gun into your high school, and killed ten students;all innocent, but guilty in your mind. You left many parents, siblings, friends feeling heartbroken, and was that really worth it? Was going to jail the rest of your life equal to what your classmates might have done to you? How are you going to be able to live with yourself knowing the one's you killed will never be able to forgive, and you will never be able to apologize? You say once, "I used to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they were staring at. At first, i couldn't tell. I mean i was just me."(161). You began to hate yourself because they hated you. You began to believe what they said about you. It's horrible. I agree, but those kids are the only trying to put you down to gain what you lost for themselves. I think we need to correct kids like you before something ever so bad happens again. It's not worth killing your own classmates in the end, and there is a better solution for that.

Sincerely,
Claire