Chapter Summary Of Chapter One At Columbine High School

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Chapters 1-19 In chapter one at Columbine High School, the principal Frank DeAngelis, tells all of his students to be careful, not only because it is a weekend but also because it is prom weekend. Everyone knows that the weekend of prom can be fun but yet dangerous at the same time. In chapter two, Eric Harris, which is a very important person at this school, and in the book, usually had no problems at all getting dates, but this time said otherwise. He was becoming desperate for a date for the weekend activity. Eric had a friend, Dylan Klebold saw each as being rebels. Dylan, who had long hair and braided was more believable over Eric which might have been a lead to some problems. Both Dylan and Eric were very intelligent senior …show more content…

They had all the details set up and divided into three stages. They were sure that their plans would work, but the question is, does it really go as planned? The first of their plans was to set bombs off in the lunchroom when most students were going to be there, this would be the worst of the shooting. The second of plans was for Dylan and Eric to be at their cars out in the parking lot, parked to where they could shoot the ones coming out the doors, without getting in the way of each other. After the boys were to do this, they would set off a massive bomb coming from the cars, taking out the law enforcement, E.M.T help, or any others that could possibly get in their way. The day of their plan came and went only because the two did not think they would have enough ammunition for the plan to actually work. The action of them both would leave people in shock and want to know why they did it so they had to come up with some type of explanation. They both kept vivid details of everything, before and after the shooting had happened. The massacre took place, April 20, …show more content…

The boys made their run into a grocery store to grab the final necessity, such as the tanks. Students and teachers noticed that neither Eric or Dylan was in class that day and started to wonder about it. Finally, they showed up to school and parked as planned around eleven o’clock that morning. Friends told Eric about missing some assignments in a class, his response is what made everything change. Eric said it does not matter and went on with matters while urging the friend to go home. They thought by leaving a decoy bomb at a different location would take attention off of the school, so they could start the actual massacre. The time they planned for the bombs to go off did not go through only because of arriving to school later than

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