Book Review of Columbine by Dave Cullen. Literature & Language

Book Review of Columbine by Dave Cullen
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Book Review of Columbine by Dave Cullen
The recent and past mass shootings and attacks in schools reveal a worrying trend of misconceptions over their causes or the factors leading and influencing the occurrence of such attacks. The parents, media, administrators, government authorities, and the victims often try to make sense out of the events and thus developing diverse perspectives that are often misleading and far from the truth. The reactionary remarks and perspectives created are often misleading and perhaps accounting for the lack of an effective intervention for increasing the safety of the learning institutions. Journalist’s Dave Cullen’s Columbine takes a different approach in portraying the events as they unfolded during the 1999 school massacre at Columbine High School. He delivers an articulate, informative, and comprehensive account of the tragic event based on decade-long research on the various aspects and parties involved. Columbine offers an excellent platform upon which the society and all the outlined stakeholders can form an understanding of the misconceptions associated with school massacres. The critical analysis of all the involved parties in the event further emphasizes on the need for collective responsibility for all the stakeholders in dealing with such unfortunate events and seeking truth based on facts. The basis for addressing the issue of school massacres builds around the factual understanding of the attacks through which effective prevention measures can be implemented.
School massacres in the United States and around the world have almost become a common phenomenon or calamity whose unscheduled but rampant occurrence is a cause for concern for all the key stakeholders. Parents, teachers, educational authorities, as well as governments around the world are all in distress as they try to enhance the safety of the students in schools and preventing such attacks. The safety of the learning institutions is no longer the sole prerogative of their administrators, who also double as victims of the same attacks, but the collective responsibility of the society as a whole in enhancing the holistic well-being of the students. The fact that it is some of the students themselves who carry out the heinous attacks on their schoolmates further poses a great challenge to the stakeholders’ efforts in curbing or rather preventing the widespread massacres occurring in the institutions. Nevertheless, all the concerned parties should have a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing the prevalence of the attacks to develop and implement effective interventional measures to maintain and enhance the safety of students and the learning institutions as a whole. Such comprehension can only form through a review of Dave Cullen’s Columbine in which very interesting revelations emerge.
Cullen revisits the events of the 1999 shooting massacre in Columbine High School from the third person perspective. Columbine gives a detailed account of how the perpetrators, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris carried out their heinous attack on their fellow students at the school. On a tragic day, the perpetrators walk into the institution car...