Narrating about the tragedy can have a healing point. However, fiction runs the risk of trivializing extremely serious matters in which sensitivity is extreme. With the passage of time, books and films about tragedies such as 11/XNUMX or any other are presented, with that fictional point indicated. But there are cases and cases.
With certain periodicity, one of those tragic events in which an armed boy carries out a massacre, usually in his school center, jumps to the news.
This book Bullets on the Blackboard narrates one of those events in which a teenager takes up arms to execute his particular and pathological revenge. The morning runs smoothly at Opportunity High School. Minute by minute we know that routine typical of any Institute in which a new school period is presented. But the reader knows at all times that this chain of events make up a macabre countdown.
The author of this book, Marieke Nijkamp, masterfully leads us through routine peace to psychosis and unleashed panic. It is only about putting yourself for a few moments in the shoes of students and teachers, frightened by the imbalance of a young man with a weapon who does not hesitate to shoot everyone who gets in front of him.
Reading a work like this is at least chilling. Advancing between the pages of a novel like this leads you towards that uncontrolled fear of a threat as uncertain as it is unexpected, where the lives of those characters with whom you are mimicking hangs on the whim of a bullet.
The killer has prepared everything thoroughly. All of them, his enemies, are locked in a mousetrap that he himself has prepared. The madness begins, and no one knows how far it will go.
In the background of this story, the dilemma of such easy access to firearms by almost any citizen in the United States arises.
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