In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. In the aftermath, the towns residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the. The third result is peter houghton age 50s in broken arrow, ok in the seven oaks neighborhood. Plot summary nineteen minutes are all it takes to turn the small town of sterling upside down. The offender who shot and killed people and injured nineteen at his school, sterling high. Did peter houghton kill himself at the end of the book when he stuffed the sock in his mouth. In nineteen minutes you can order a pizza and get it delivered. Lacy brought homemade muffins, books, and magazines to give to peter in jail, but all of this. The character of lewis houghton in nineteen minutes from. The pull of a trigger changed not only his life, but many others that lived in sterling, new hampshire. Peter houghton, picked on by school mates from the first day of kindergarten, enters sterling high, and in nineteen minutes kills ten and wounds another nineteen students.
He used to be best friends with josie when they were younger, but she got caught up in popularity. Those years of torment are what led to his horrific actions and now, the idea of bullying and murder are the only topics the town can discuss, as peter faces. And peter s parents, lacy and lewis houghton, ceaselessly examine the past to see what they might have said or done to compel their son to such extremes. Nineteen minutes sees the return of two characters from picoults earlier novels. Sep 14, 2015 posted in books, discussion, reading tagged books dicussion goodreads jodi picoult nineteen minutes reading post navigation books, art and collectibles available now at. Sterling is a small, ordinary new hampshire town where nothing ever happens until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the towns residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. The mass shooting takes place at sterling high, in new hampshire, and lasts for the nineteen minutes of the book s titular namesake. Jodi picoults books explore all the shades of gray in a world too often. Peter houghton was a skinny, freckled, foureyed student at sterling high.
Nineteen minutes film opening in sterling, new hampshire, 17yearold high school student peter houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. You can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist. In typical fashion, picoult shapes her story by providing various perspectives. Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult, 9781444754360, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook.
Josie, his friend stood up for him when he got picked on and bullied at a young age. Mar 20, 2008 the international bestsellerincredibly thoughtprovoking sunafter years of cruel bullying from his classmates, peter houghton snaps one morning, and in nineteen minutes, ten residents of the town of sterling are dead. When the case goes to trial, the reeling town is determined to seek justice for the innocents peter killed. I love the controversy she brings with her novels but the way she writes is wonderful also. Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult book club discussion questions. Peter houghton character analysis in nineteen minutes. Lions the houghton mifflin readers paperback january 1, 1971 by william kirtley durr author. Nineteen minutes summary and study guide supersummary. Teasing, bullying and torment are the driving force behind the actions of seventeen yearold peter houghton. Mar 05, 2007 buy nineteen minutes by picoult, jodi from amazons fiction books store. Summary sterling, new hampshire was known as the safe town until march 6, 2007. Considers suicide after her release from the hospital but decides against it.
Alex and lacys friendship comes to an end when they discover peter and josie playing with guns in the houghton house. Nineteen minutes thats how long it took peter houghton to get his revenge. Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult book club discussion. In sterling, new hampshire, seventeenyearold high school student peter houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of his classmates. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist. As in house rules the main character in nineteen minutes, peter, is a teenage boy who is different from his peers and suffers for it. He has never be aware of the fact that he does act differently than most in social situations, which becomes obvious on pg 210 after he made a graph of popularity in his freshman. Mccabe peter s teacher, who is a victim of the shooting courtney ignacio josies best friend when she becomes part of the popular group. Our reading guide for nineteen minutes by jodi picoult includes a book club. The book is set in sterling, new hampshire a small town where nothing ever happens. Please also see nineteen minutes by jodi picoult chapters 1 to 5 and chapter summaries part 2. At the beginning of this book, peter houghton pulls a trigger on his fellow classmates, yet we see only its aftermath. I feel like throughout the book peter himself is his biggest conflict. People act as if they know peter, especially his family but in reality they do not know ho.
Nineteen minutes is jodi picoults most recent novel, and i predict it will become her best seller to date. When joey is killed in a car accident in 2006, lacy and lewis houghton are too upset to pay attention to their remaining son, causing a bigger rift between peter and his parents. When 17year old high school student peter houghton comes to high school and starts shooting at his peers and thereby kill nine students and teacher while the injured will. Has a baby son and an older son thomas also appears in the pact and salem falls and is married to selena mcafee. If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them. Peter houghton, a sixteenyearold student at the local high school. Creates a computer game with a setting modeled exactly like sterling high school. Nineteen minutes is how long it took the tennessee titans to sell out of tickets to the playoffs. Lacy peter s mother is a midwife and assists alex josies mother deliver her baby girl. Peter is an awkward teenage boy who has been bullied his whole life.
He faces having to be compared to his older brother joey who even participates in bullying peter at school. Feeling like an outsider and a social misfit, peter loses sight of the value of life. In nineteen minutes, teenage boy peter houghton brings four guns to his high school and goes on a shooting rampage. Im about halfway through and saw some passages that really stuck out. He is a recurring character, appeared before in the pact and salem falls. The book begins one morning, when peter houghton enters his high school with a gun, killing 10 people, and injuring 19 others. Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult is about a seventeen year old boy who turns the people who victimized him into victims themselves. Click below to download the full study guide for nineteen minutes. Jodi picoults latest topical novel, nineteen minutes, takes its title from the duration of a highschool shooting rampage perpetrated by peter houghton, a muchbullied new. Everyone would remember peter for 19 minutes of his life, but what.
Nineteen minutes sterling is a small, ordinary new hampshire town where nothing ever happens until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. And peters parents, lacy and lewis houghton, ceaselessly examine the past to see what they might have said or done to compel their son to such extremes. For nineteen minutes, peter goes on a shooting spree while screaming students and teachers scramble to get out of his way. Detective on the sterling police force and alexs love interest a recurring. The object of the game is to kill the popular kids.
The book starts with peter rampaging through his high school killing fellow classmates and others. Peter and josie are very close friends as small children and really best friends. Nineteen minutes presents peter purely as a victim of circumstances. Matt royston josies boyfriend, who is a victim of the shooting mr. Finds and visits her father only to be rejected by him. Peter hides in his his room and turns to his computer to give him comfort where he designs computer games with a lot of violence. Peter houghton, the seventeenyearold school shooter, changes the lives of many people on march 6, 2007.
Peter had tried to help himself, take his mothers advice, or do anything. Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult chapter summaries 6 through 10. It took longer than nineteen minutes, though, for peter s life to change. Defense attorney jordan mcafee the pact and detective patrick ducharme perfect match the father of the shooter in nineteen minutes is a college professor whose area of expertise is the economics of happiness such a profession does exist and the equation that happiness equals reality. Sep 02, 2011 joey is a popular straighta student and athlete, but feels it necessary to ridicule peter to protect his reputation, even fabricating a story that peter was adopted. We meet his loving but hapless family and the students that made peter. His change began early on, from elementary school when he was a target of repeated bullying and intimidation.
Peter houghton, an alienated teen who has been bullied for years by the. This picture symbolizes a part of the text where peter is asking. In sterling, new hampshire, 17year old high school student peter houghton has endured years of verbal and. Peter was frequently the target of severe bullying at school, and josie often. Then author jodie picoult gently takes us back in time so that we can understand the why of peter s horrific deed. This timely, provocative novelpicoults 14thfocuses on a shooting incident that takes place at a high school in sterling, new hampshire. One character that played a large role in the book was peter houghton. Nineteen minutes psychological thrillers movies, books. She is a judge at the superior court in grafton county. The rest of the book bounces between flashback and the present. He then decided to react and shoot 10 people at his school. Peters father tells them he hadnt ordered anything and hangs up. Royal houghton paperback january 1, 1986 by pat lovering author 5.
It focuses on the events leading up to and following a high school shooting. Peter houghton enters sterling high and goes on a killing spree that leaves 10 dead and many others wounded both physically and emotionally. One line of the synopsis is, as a midwife, lacy houghton brings lives into the world. Finallyafter the bomb squad had dismantled the pipe bomb in peter houghton s car. Jordan mcafee defense lawyer for peter houghton minor characters. Peter steals guns from his neighbor, a retired cop. He dreamed that he was running through the halls of the school, hearing gunshots, but every time he turned a corner he found himself hovering in midairthe floor having vanished beneath his feet.
The character of peter houghton in nineteen minutes from litcharts. He takes on peter s case because he believes that peter deserves a fair trial. Peter houghton takes on a life where he is a victim of bullying and violence. Peter s exbest friend and matts current girlfriend. Mar 05, 2007 in nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game.
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey. Everyone thinks they are above him and picks on him 247. Peter houghtonpeter houghton is one of two main characters in nineteen minutes. Nineteen minutes is the story of a massacre that takes place in a high school. Its the driving distance from the vermont border to the town of sterling new hampshire. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. For nineteen minutes you can to revenge sterling is the average american town where nothing happens until one day his peace is not disturbed by shocking act of violence.
Peter houghton, the seventeenyearold school shooter. The international bestseller incredibly thoughtprovoking sun after years of cruel bullying from his classmates, peter houghton snaps one morning, and in nineteen minutes, ten residents of the town of sterling are dead. Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult in this emotionally charged novel, jodi picoult delves beneath the surface of a small town to explore what it means to be different in our society. After years of cruel bullying from his classmates, peter houghton snaps one morning, and in nineteen minutes, ten residents of the town of sterling are dead.
Ive just been reading nineteen minutes by jodi picoult and completely fell in love with it. Bullying is portrayed as the main cause for peter houghton s mass shooting at sterling high. Peter houghton didnt fit in at sterling high, and he knew it. Character profile for peter houghton from nineteen minutes. In sterling, new hampshire, seventeenyearold high school student peter houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the. Nineteen minutes by jodi picoult chapter 6 six years before. Rich with psychological and social insight, nineteen minutes is a riveting, poignant, and thoughtprovoking novel that has at its center a haunting question.
Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that cant be filled. Nineteen minutes was the second book ive ever read by her the first being, the pact when i was fifteen. At the end, ten people had been killed and several more wounded. Nineteen minutes jodi picoult introduction in this emotionally charged novel, jodi picoult delves beneath the surface of a small town to explore what it means to be different in our society.
Peter houghton, an alienated teen who has been bullied for years by the popular crowd, brings weapons to his high school in sterling, n. One day, he brings a gun to school and shoots 10 people, an episode of violence that lasts exactly 19 minutes. Peter had one best friend growing up like normal other kids. Thus begins the most important trial their little town has ever known.
The title nineteen minutes refers to how long it takes the shooter, peter houghton, to complete a bloody rampage through his new hampshire high school. Character analysis nineteen minutes by jodi picoult. Nineteen minutes jodi picoult read online free books. Peter houghton peter houghton is one of two main characters in nineteen minutes. He plays a main role in the book as the school target. Nineteen minutes 2007 is the fourteenth novel by the american author, jodi picoult.
Nineteen minutes is up there with my favourite of picoults books. Nineteen minutes is the fourteenth novel by the american author, jodi picoult. One of those students is josie cormier, the daughter of district judge alex cormier, who is a single mother. Nineteen minutes also features the return of two of jodi picoults charactersdefense attorney jordan mcafee from the pact and salem falls and patrick ducharme, the intrepid detective. Once josie found other friends and left him he was on his own. There is one obvious main conflict that peter faces is being bullied in his life. Its the sense that the tragedy that has struck the houghtons could. Peter houghton has appeared in the following books. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. The mass shooting takes place at sterling high, in new hampshire, and lasts for the nineteen minutes of the books titular namesake. Feeling like an outsider and a social misfit, peter. Author jodi picoult implements an it takes a village type of approach to analyze and dissect how this crime occurred in the high school of the small town of sterling, new hampshire. The nineteen minutes quotes below are all either spoken by lewis houghton or refer to lewis houghton.
Peter houghton phone, address, background info whitepages. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. He used to be best friends with josie when they were younger, but she got caught up. Nineteen minutes is a harrowing, suspenseful narrative about a high school shooting and its aftermath.
In just nineteen minutes, peter drastically changes the lives of many of the members of his sterling, new hampshire community. Peter houghton was bullied all his life, starting with his brother, joey, along with most of his fellow classmates all throughout school. Or because josie was the object of peter houghtons frustrated longings. When joey is killed in a car accident in 2006, lacy and lewis houghton are too. In nineteen minutes, picoult writes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your ha. Taran adams in nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. The nineteen minutes quotes below are all either spoken by peter houghton or refer to peter houghton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one. She began producing spirit drawings in 1859 at private seances. Select this result to view peter houghton s phone number, address, and more. In sterling, new hampshire, seventeenyearold high school student peter houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of his. Peter is one of two primary characters within the book nineteen minutes, he is an awkward 17 year old boy who has been bullied majority of his life. Jodi picoult in sterling, new hampshire, 17yearold high school student peter houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates.
Ends her friendship with peter in middle school to join the popular group. You can read a story to a child or get your oil changed. Peter houghton, a victim of bullying since kindergarten, decided to get revenge on all the people that had ever bullied him. I meant that we both see people when theyre at their most raw. Feeling alone but having no one there to comfort you may be one of the worst feelings to experience. This novel follows the unfolding of a school shooting, including the events leading up to the incident and the aftermath of the incident. In sterling, new hampshire, 17yearold high school student peter houghton has endured years of verbal and. In jodi picoults novel, nineteen minutes, peter houghton a 17 year old suffers from the society around him. Peter houghton is a lonely outsider taunted by the popular kids.