Have you ever been a victim of bullying? Bullied so much that you thought you could make this person stop by doing something you might regret one day. In Jodi Picoult's novel, Nineteen Minutes, we'll examine how bullying can lead to school violence, such as school shootings. And to understand it better, you have to understand many social influences. The people you talk to may have these influences, such as your friends, family, adults or other children around you. Some of them say they know you, but the real question is do we really understand or want to understand someone? Are we really willing to learn things about others rather than letting people learn things about us by the way we behave at school, at home, or by hanging out with us. But Joey wasn't the only person to bully Peter. The kids at school were also bullying Peter and his brother Joey didn't care since he did the same things. After Joey died, Peter thought all the bullying from his brother and the kids at school would stop, but it was happening to him every day and getting worse. Lacy and Lewis Houghton Peter's parents are too distraught to pay attention to their remaining son, causing an even greater rift between Peter and his parents. The only person who was nice to Peter and didn't bully him was his friend Josie Cormier before she left him to join the popular kids. They did everything together, even when Peter was bullied every day. Josie saw that Peter was being bullied and decided not to stop him, so she decided to stop being friends with him so they wouldn't do the same thing to him that they did to him. After JosieAnyone who was bullied or who the bullies are was once a kid and believed in something with all their heart, maybe it was because they didn't like your intelligence, your clothes, or the way you looked talk. It's how they feel about you that makes them not like you. And they used to have friends, friends that they can hang out with and talk to and be themselves, but when they started getting bullied for being different, these are friends that they don't hang around, who don't talk to them and don't want to. Be friends with them because they are afraid of being bullied, just like this person. And it's hard for people like that to survive if they're just being harassed by students or adults. You think "it's just a phase, they'll grow out of it" or "they just need to talk to people so they'll notice them", but it's not that they don't have the feeling like they fit in with everyone because everyone is very different from them and when they try to talk to people they