Have you ever been bullied before? You were bullied so badly that you thought you could stop that person from doing something you might regret one day. In Jodi Picoult's novel, Nineteen Minutes, we will examine how bullying can lead to school violence such as school shootings. And to understand this better, you need to understand many social influences. The people you talk to may have these influences such as 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 do we care to understand someone? Are we really ready to learn things about others rather than letting people learn things about us from the way we behave at school, at home or by hanging out with us? But Joey wasn't the only person bullying Peter. The kids at school also bullied Peter and his brother Joey didn't mind since he did the same things. After Joey's death, Peter thought that all the bullying he was experiencing from his brother and the kids at school would stop, but it kept happening to him every day and it was getting worse. Lacy and Lewis Houghton Peter's parents are too distraught to pay attention to their remaining son, causing an even bigger rift between Peter and his parents. The only person who was kind to Peter and wasn't overbearing was his friend Josie Cormier before she left him to be with 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 that they don't do the same thing they did to Peter to her. After Josie, anyone who has been bullied or is a bully, was once a child and believed in something with all their heart, maybe it was that they didn't like how smart you are, your clothes or how you talk. It's how they feel about you that makes them dislike you. And they have friends, friends that they can hang out with and talk to and just be themselves with, but when they start getting bullied because they're different they become friends that they don't hang out with, they talk to them and they don't want to be their friend because they're scared. of being bullied, just like that person. And it is difficult for such people to survive if they are simply targeted by students or adults. You think "it's just a phase, they'll get out of it" or "they just need to talk to people to get noticed", but it's not that they don't feel like they get along with everyone because everyone is very different from them and when they try to talk to people do it