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participated in a school shooting. Yet, whether or not the boy did it is irrelevant. It is the peoples view of him, the fact that media condemns someone before all
of the facts are in and the stereotype that murderers can be the boy next door, that is important. In fact, this novel suggests that normalcy is irrelevant in the
scheme of things. What is normal these days? The author seems to mock the idea of normalcy while also focusing on the peoples attitudes. When something bad happens, people gasp,
point accusatory fingers and make life miserable for those at the crux of an investigation. With many well known cases in the media eye it is not important whether or
not someone committed a crime, but whether the world thinks he had. OJ Simpson was found not guilty of a double homicide. Yet, he was tried and convicted in the
media and then, a civil judgment rendered him guilty anyway. The author writes: "My eyes latch onto the screen. A breeze rustles cellophane on the Lechugas teddy farm, then
snags a wire of Lallys hair and floats it off his head. The pumpjack squeaks rhythmically under his voice. `This proud community takes a decisive step from the shadow of
Tuesdays devastation, with the arrest of a new player in the deadly web of cause and effect that has brought the once peaceful town to its knees" (Pierre, 2004, p.
55). The passage goes on to say that he seemed to be just a normal boy but George Porkorney noticed changes such as the appearance of cigarettes (Pierre, 2004). He
did have a skinhead haircut that the townspeople seemingly did not approve of and there was talk that he looked at dirty pictures (Pierre, 2004). He was slow in school.
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