The relationship between Eric and Dylan was very strange to me; it didn’t really make sense how these two became friends in the first place. Eric who was not shy, charming, and could talk his way through anything, and Dylan who was shy, couldn’t talk with girls, and had the mentality that he was ugly and couldn’t do anything about it. The two boys did share interests in videogames and tech stuff though, which is why they may have become friends, although as I read through the book it seemed more of a leader and follower relationship. “On some of their videos, he puffed up and acted like a tough guy, then glanced over at Eric for approval.”(pg.7) “They both smoked the same brand, Camel filtered. Eric picked it; Dylan followed.”(pg.11) …show more content…
Obviously they had no idea what was going on inside and how many shooters there were. But seeing as how the boys were dead after not even an hour is pretty upsetting to hear when people like Dave Sanders was stuck in a room bleeding out for as long as he was and not being able to be saved. “My concern is that my dad was left there.” “Dave Sanders had held on for well over three hours.” “From what Angie understood, her father could have been saved.”(pg.138) I don’t see how they didn’t get him out. If it was someone I knew and they were alive for three plus hours hurt or injured waiting to be saved and they just get left behind to die I would be furious.
In this story there are too many occasions where Eric and Dylan’s plan should have been found and ended. It would have only taken one person to speak up. “Wouldn’t it be fun to kill all the jocks?” “Why stop there, why not blow up the whole school? How hard would it be, really? Chris assumed Eric was joking.”(pg.330) No one makes jokes like that. I don’t see how anyone could relate something said like that as a joke. Chris Morris even knew Eric was building bombs; why not tell anyone is all I can think. Building bombs, then making jokes about killing jocks and blowing up the school and the kid didn’t say a