Post A8

Dear Jodi,

I finished your book and it was amazing. It was a book that I actually enjoyed and could really relate to. You showed just how high school works, and the consequences it brings when kids bring other kids down just to make themselves feel better. The only thing I was kind of disappointed with was that I kept hearing from other people how amazing the ending was and how shocking it was. But, I was upset when I predicted it because now I feel like I read the entire book knowing that Josie had shot Matt, making it pointless. But actually, it wasn't pointless at all because the way you wrote it shows why Josie did what she did. And, to be honest I think this book should be read in every high school because every single kid knows exactly who picks on who and who the popular crowd is, there just happens to not be a single person who can change it themselves, you need every single person in the school for this stuff to end. Yet, we all know it never will happen that way so we chose the path where it all leads up to the same thing of kid after kid getting picked on, and every once in a while someone standing up for them. Nothing changes, and life goes on, but will it go on or will a kid like Peter Houghton arrive one day at our school and end the lives that we thought would go on forever and never actually get hurt because "nobody would actually do that at our school, because our school is safe". But, how am I suppose to feel like this can't happen when our school sounds the exact same as Sterling High. It's weird, but it's true that anything can happen, good or bad. The thing is you learn the punishments, but you don't know the punishment until it happens in front of your very eyes.