Nobody Left to Hate

In Elliot Aronson’s book, Nobody Left to Hate,  he does a profound job of conveying strong emotions felt by those involved in and affected by the Columbine shooting to his reader.  I know that I personally felt saddened, touched and overall very grateful for all that I have after reading this novel.  He creates vivid images of the real-life situation, and describes the anger, sadness, and pain that was, and still is felt by the parents who lost their loved ones at Columbine.  At one point in the book, he even asks the reader to “walk in the shoes” of one of the parents who lost a child to this terrible tragedy.  I especially enjoyed how he points out how different people have different emotions toward different situations.  No one is exactly alike.  Some parents feel anger, some depression, and while some feel compassion for the troubled shooters, some feel extreme hatred towards these evil boys.  This brings the book around to the main point: who is to take the blame for all the bad?  Aronson centers around the thought that if tragedy strikes, humans look for who is to blame for the tragedy.  All the people involved seem to be trying to dig down deep to the main cause of the problem. As they begin to dig, they realize they seem to be in a “bottomless pit”. Every problem seems to lead to another.   This seems to be a great spark for the title: Nobody Left to Hate.  After reading this novel, I was sparked into thinking about how different choices lead to different consequences, and everything happens for a reason.  Perhaps the choices of the parents of the shooters led them to make the choices they made, or maybe the parents of the shooters’ parents made bad decisions, and so on and so forth.  This is what leads us to the question, who is really to blame?  While each human being is accountable for his own actions, these actions may be based on decisions or affected by feelings or thoughts of others. I enjoyed how Aronson ends the book on a positive note of optimism for the future, so that terrible situations will  not occur.    Overall, Aronson does a phoenomonal job of stating the facts, while also pulling in great literary work to keep the reader engaged and not bored.<a href=”http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161710.Nobody_Left_to_Hate?