When I opened this book the first sentence stated "by the time you read this, I hope to be dead", which for me, created a Eyre mood. I wanted to know who was dead and why. It crtainly pulled me in to read more.
"She sighed and peered down the block to see weather she could make out her mom's green explorer from the conga line of passing cars. and just about then. something exploded"
the mood that line created was a sense of shock and surprise. You weren't expecting an explosion at that point. You want to know where the explosion came from and why.
"He'd see sprays of blood, and students crumpled on the ground,and he did not let himself look twice". The mood created there was suspensful. This detivive is running around a school full of dead bodies on the ground and is probabley scared for not only his life but more students getting hurt or killed.
In the small town of Sterling, New Hamshire, nothing ever happens. I am introduced to serveral different characters in the first chapter. Alex, a new judge to the surprime court. She hardly has time for her daughter, Josie. Who is having some trouble finding herself in High school. She is appart of the popular group but knows that isn't who she really is. Patrick is the town's top detective, he's never really had a big case and goes back and forth on the weekend to Maine to see his one love that he knows will never love him back and his god daughter. He gets the case of his career when a call comes on the radio about a school shooting. We are also introduced to Peter a high school student who wakes up for school goes to his computer and is shocked to see something I am yet to find out.And his Mother Lacy who is a Midwife and is having some trouble being happy with her life, even though her husband studies happiness for a living. And lastly Zoe is also a High school student who just wants to kiss a guy with braces. She has to leave class early for a appt but as she's waiting for her mother outside she hears an explosion.
This first chapter is alittle confusing because of all the characters I'm introduced to but I'm sure it will make more sense as I read on.
~Taylor
Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes: A Novel. New York: Atria, 2007. Print.
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