Give a Boy a Gun #2

Now, the boys are in their freshman year of high school. It seems like as they got older the bullying got worse and worse. During a flag football game in gym class, some football players would pick on the "geeks" of the class. Brendan got hit by one of the football players named Sam Flach during the game for no reason. The coach of the football team simply said with a smirk on his face, "Uh Sam, this is flag football. No hitting." We see here that the school obviously did not take bullying seriously. When you have a faculty member laugh when one student hurts another, there is a problem with the school. The book also showed messages Brendan and Gary posted online to each other. After reading about this story, the author put an e-mail that Brendon had sent Gary. I could not really tell if it was sent when they were freshman or soon before the two shot up the school. Anyways, the e-mail was probably one of the most disturbing passages in the novel. It read, "Sam Flach will die slowly. I will shoot him in one knee, then the other, then a gut shot so he'll have no friggin' doubt where he's going. And he will stare up at me with a fear in his eyes he has never known, and i will put that friggin' barrel right against his forehead and say, "Gee, sorry, Sam," then blow his friggin' brains out." I was disgusted when I read that. It hurts me to think that people can actually dream about this stuff. Especially when it is a kid no older than 18 years old. Not only that, but how could kids treat others like that? In the same section, Brendan has another e-mail to Gary about how the teachers know what it going on, but do not do anything about it. Brendan goes on to say that he wants to kill a teacher for not doing anything about seeing him be bullied. That was the point where I guessed Brendan was the leader of the two. He was the darker of the two and I thought he kind of peer pressured Gary to thinking like he did.