Hate List
Vladislav Svidruk
Ms.Cunningham
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The book "Hate List" is a tragic and a disturbing novel written by Jennifer Brown. Valerie, the main character has been through more then you would imagine. Her father and mother separated and all she had was her boyfriend Nick. Nick was like her best friend and boyfriend they did everything together and both got bullied at school.They would always get together and write about people who they disliked. They wrote all those people on a piece of paper,That piece of paper ended a lot of lives in the commons.
"The school couldn't decide if i was hero or villain". Her own boyfriend caused so much pain that no one knows if she is either. She did save a person by getting in front of her and not letting her boyfriend kill her. Everyone still thought of her as a bad person because her boyfriend the closest person to him "got everyone shot". She also ended up at the hospital because when her boyfriend was going crazy a random bullet hit her right in the leg.
Knowing the other side of the argument is sometimes helpful. Some people might have though it was her fault and had accused her because she was close to him. Some people think its her fault because she made that hate list with her boyfriend and that's why they ended up at that point.
After she got better the cops and the FBI started asking her questions that made her think it was her fault which made her not go to school and exclude people from her life.
On the other hand some of the decisions she made weren't that smart. I don't think you need a special journal to write down all the people you hate, Hate is a really strong word it could effect someone on how they look at things. But also she didn't know how her boyfriend would react. She just told him some secrets and he told her some secrets about people they hate and that lead into a huge mess with guns and violence. Even though violence is not the answer he probably couldn't stand it.
In all, the book hate list is a tragic and a disturbing book that makes you feel bad inside. People are really complicated and even if you think you know the person, you might be looking at a whole new person then you thing he or she is.
