(Book Review) We Need To Talk About Kevin

We need to talk about kevin is a brillant and well rewritten novel by Lionel Shriver. Its provocative, dark, and indepth piece written by a mother desperalty searching for the truth ,of what might have caused her son to go off the deep end. It takes a premeditational and sequentual approach explainning the relationship between mother and son and what led a15 year old boy named Kevin to murder 7 of his fellow classmates, a cafeteria worker, and his English teacher in a Columbine-style school massacre. This event took place in the late 90's when schools across the country where dealing with shootings as it reached an all time high. This novel depicts the norms from the not so normality of everyday struggles that teens go through, to find their place in a competitive society, but deep inside feels a great deal of alienation. Many people across the country at the time put the blame on the media and its excess of violence deriving from television, movies, radio and other media outlets; shown to young viewers, while others just seemly took a different approach and put the blame souly on the parents. This book is important to me, because it's life and events like these happen more so now than before, so we need to acknowledge the issues. Otherwise we are gonna have generations running around, rampaged by hate and furry, trying to gain attention from the ones before them. So I recommend you all, We all need to talk about Kevin.