nineteen minutes

i was done with nineteen minutes, a book by jodi picoult a few days ago. i knew i took far too much time to read a book ( i took 5 months for this book) but what to do ... i m a slow reader. i need to stop and think through what i have read every now and then.

anyway, i got touched by what jodi wrote once again. she touched on the existing social issues that at times seem to be well hidden from the eyes of the society. in 19 mins, she talked about bullying which occurred in school and about how one doesn't fit into the popular group of people and eventually got outcasted.. perhaps, sometimes we may experience this in our own lives. i believe anyone who read this book will probably feel the message that she wanna convey to the readers.

i kinda pity peter in the story. peter was the boy involved in the school shooting. as the story slowly revealed about his background story, i begin to pity him and just wanna curse those bullies as well. but peter was far too rash. he shouldn't carried out his plan, but if he didn't. i guess if his life will be as bad as what it was after he had done it. 

one of the things that peter said leave me thinking... 

he said " if u dont share my secrets, i wont share your."

i know the above quote sounds quite simple. but hear the story out first. 

that was what he said to josie, his child hood playmate and the girl he like, when he was trying to cover her crime (she killed someone while he gunning down the people in the school). FYI, she played a small factor that led him to the shooting incident. josie used to protect him when he was a young kid.. and right now at the critical moment, he actually stand up and be like a real man and protect her from a crime that she shouldn't have committed. 

so was it the power of love or the power of friendship that leads him to refusing to tell the truth even when he was on the death gallows?

i always thought that was the power of love...

so what can u do in 19 mins?