deliberately, until I pried the textbook out of his hands, saying, "I'll try to figure it out some more by myself."
Had to teach himself at home because his parents wasn't familiar with the education system which made him frustrated.
deliberately, until I pried the textbook out of his hands, saying, "I'll try to figure it out some more by myself."
Had to teach himself at home because his parents wasn't familiar with the education system which made him frustrated.
Too eager, too anxious -an imitative and unoriginal pupil.
Why does he make these characteristics of him sound so bad?
odd success
He considers his success odd because he came from a spanish-speaking home and was exposed to two different environments.
It is myself (as a boy) I see as she faces me now ( a man in my thirties).
He see's as an adult now that he was similar to that young girl.
social cataclysm.
He mentions this word more than once
they were outsiders, video-game enthusi-asts, members of the Trench Coat Mafia, neo-Nazis, two boys who couldn't tell their alcohol-fueled dreams from reality, a leader and a follower, a smart kid and a loser, specimens of a middle-class value system in crisis, proof of the need for stricter gun-control laws
Sparked the whole gun violence issues and made the government want to crack down on gun laws.
Columbine High School mesmerized the nation
Isn't this the real school shooting that happened?