I enjoyed learning about his lack of friends, his troubling past and his terrible home-life. I liked reading from Leonard’s perspective. A lot of the characters throughout this book are problematic in their own way. Again, this doesn’t justify his desire to kill his classmate and then himself, but it does provide an insight into why Leonard is feeling this dark and hopeless. I love that this book explained Leonard’s life and issues in detail. I am in no way implying that having the shooters reasoning justifies their actions, but I do like the idea of knowing why they are acting the way that they are. I’ve read a few books now that deal with school shootings, and while they explore the perspectives of the students that are trapped throughout the school, they hardly ever tell to story from the perspective of the shooter. What I didn’t expect was for it to dive so deep into the reasoning behind his reasoning. When I picked up Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, I figured that it might deal with some sort of mental illness as the synposis clearly mentions that Leonard is planning to kill a classmate and then himself. I’m really glad to have been lucky enough to find multiple books that deal with these issues as I personally believe that they are extremely important. I feel like I’ve been reading a lot of books recently that contain characters who are dealing with certain social or mental issues. The discussion of important social issues. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches. But first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart-obsessed next-door neighbor, Walt his classmate, Baback, a violin virtuoso Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on and Herr Silverman, who teaches the high school’s class on the Holocaust. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather’s P-38 pistol. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. I found it on sale and I decided to pick it up on a whim.
I didn’t do a lot of research before picking it up and I definitely hadn’t seen many people talk about it. “we can simultaneously be human and monster-that both of those possibilities are in all of us.”įorgive Me, Leonard Peacock is one of those books that just took me by complete surprise.
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