Massacres

The book shows us what could happen, when we don’t care of people around us in our society. In the next few sentences I will show you examples and opinions about massacres.

The author uses the relationship between youngsters for his book as a topic, which ends in a massacre. In the last years there happened a lot of massacres for example in Erfurt or in Colorado USA the Columbine High School. In both examples there were youngsters, who killed a lot of other teenager and teacher. Today it’s a delicate topic and the politics doesn’t know how to deal with it. All the youngsters, who caused a massacre, were frustrated, angry or they killed because of their lovesickness. I think it’s necessary to talk in school about it because you must be in formed about it. The new medias like Internet and gaming is another problem because there are a lot of "killing games" and when you’re playing a lot of time, you will get addictive and anytime you are not able to differ between reality and fantasy.

My opinion is that we can’t avoid a massacre, but we have to care about other people around.

Chris at his party

Chris´s expectations

Chris is very self-confident and he wants to fuck Sara, whatever will happen! He has hidden all his porn away because he thinks he will never need a porn movie again. He thinks he´s cool, and good-looking, because of that his opinion is that he will get Sara instead of her boyfriend Sean. He guess that Sara wants to fuck with him, too.
He doesn´t want to have too many guests at his party! He only wants to be with Sara!

My personal comment about "working with our weblog"

I want to say something about my weblog:

• I wrote my weblog in the past because I wrote it from White Mike´s point of view, so I had to use the past
• I really enjoyed it to work with a weblog it´s something new, we never did something like it before ;)
• we learnt a lot of New York, Manhattan and the districts in Manhattan
  

Setting of the book

• 90^th street / Madison Avenue -> Chris´s house
• Central Park -> zoo / Warren´s nanny walks with Warren, Charlie and White Mike
• Canal Street / China town -> Claude and Tobias bought their weapons
• 117^th street / 3^rd Avenue -> Nana´s home, Charlie and Nana killed by Lionel
• 96^th street / 3^rd Avenue -> bad restaurant
• 79^th street / Park Avenue -> Hunter walks and listens to James Taylor
• 76^th street / Park Avenue -> Mike gets out of a cab
• 50^th street / 9^th Avenue -> shop where Charlie bought his gun
• Canal Street / Bowery Street -> prison
• Bleeker Street -> Claude bought his fake ID
• 96^th Street / Park Avenue -> rec
• 86^th Street / Lexington Avenue -> place where Hunter finds White Mike during his experiment
• 91^st Street / Lexington Avenue -> deal between White Mike, Lionel and Jessica
• Wollman Rink in Central Park -> Jessica met her girlfriends to go ice-skating
• 84^th -90^th / East End Avenue Carl Schurz Park -> Andrew and Sven are playing chess

Connection between Mainhattan and Manhattan

I think there are a lot of similarities between Mainhattan and Manhattan. Manhattan is America´s Financial District and Mainhattan is of course Germany´s Financial District perhaps Europe´s, because of the European Central Bank.
Manhattan has a skyline and Mainhattan is the only city in Europe, which has also a skyline. Frankfurt has a stock market, too but Mainhattan is not as big as Manhattan.
Mainhattan has also a sculpture nearby the stock exchange, but it´s a bear and a bull together. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (DBAG=Deutsche Börsen Aktien Gesellschaft) is not as old as the NYSE is, it was founded in 1992.

Financial District

The Financial District of New York, which is also called FiDi, includes the headquarters of many financial institutions, for example the World Financial Center or the Stock Exchange. It´s the area between south of City Hall Park and Battery Park and the heart of the district is the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street (look at the picture).





The Wall Street was the first home of the New York Stock Exchange and later on the surrounding area got the name of it, it´s also a metonymy for "influential financial interests".

The "Big Board" which is the nickname of the New York Stock Exchange is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world and it has 2,764 listed securities. The NYSE is very important for the economy in the USA.









The "Wall Street Bull","Charging Bull" or "Bowling Green Bull" is a 3,200kg bronze sculpture, which is in the Bowling Green Park. It stands for America´s aggressive financial optimism and prosperity.

Mind map about New York

My first impression about New York

I think it´s a very big city with millions of people. The fantastic skyline with all its skyscrapers is impressive. The buildings are amazing. But I think it´s hard to live there, because of all the trouble at the rush hour and New York is a city, which never sleeps! The Central Park in the middle of Manhattan, a place for relaxing is great! But I think the difference between rich and poor is very big when you see Manhattan and Harlem, the two contrasts. New York has also a very high crime rate, which makes New York dangerous. New York is a great, amazing and impressive city on one hand and a dangerous, with crime crowded city on the other hand.

Dialogue between Claude & Chris

At breakfast

Chris: Good morning!
Claude: Morning Chris!
Chris: What do you want to eat? Mom bought new jam!
Claude: I don´t want to eat jam! I want to eat cheese!
Chris: Ah ok. What did you do last night? You came back home very late I remember!
Claude: Yes of course! I was hanging around with Tobi! We were in Chinatown!
Chris: What did you do there?
Claude: What´s that to you?It´s not interesting!
Chris: Come on tell me! I will keep it secret!
Claude: No! Fuck off! I´ll don´t tell you!
Chris: Oh man! We are brothers! You can trust in me!
Claude: No!
Chris: Ahhh then eat your cheese and shut up!
Do you want to know how the party was?
Claude: ........mmmhhhh
Chris: Okay! You know Jessica? She took some drugs I don´t know the name of the drug
but it was something special! A new drug!
After taken that drug she was so down! She was lying down in the bathroom. I called
a cab to bring her home!
Claude: Ah...! Is she on drugs now?
Chris: I don´t know, but I hope she isn´t on drugs now!
Claude: I think she is! When you have taken one time drugs then you´ll be on them.
Chris: Oh no! I´m afraid of that! I hope it will be not as you said!
Claude: Think what you want! I´m right! You will see it!
I´ve to go know!
See you later!
Chris: See you! Bye!

Chapter fourty-one

Alice told me some things

I and Alice were walking down the beach in East Hampton. She told me something about her parents and about her bad boarding school. Everything was bad. Then it was getting dark and she took off her clothes and she ran into the ocean. She came out laughing, crying and freezing at the same time.

Chapter fourty

Dreaming

I felt asleep while I was reading “The Plague”. I was dreaming that I was standing on a skyscraper and there was a thunderstorm. I wanted to look up the beautiful skyline and then suddenly I felt down. I saw me flying and then I landed on a car.

Chapter thirty-nine

The Uzi

After the cocktail party Claude wanted to go out and he called Tobias to come along whith him.
They went to Chinatown and Tobias ran away suddenly, then Claude went into the shop where he bought his other weapons. He was looking for something special. The man closed the door and showed him an Uzi.

Chapter thirty-eight

Remembering Alice

When I wanted to pay for the pizza the handsome kid reminded me when I was working at the summer camp of Long Island. There was a girl named Alice and we were always behind the boathouse. She was smoking, but I didn’t smoke I just want to be with her. She told me that she is able to remember all her firsts like her first boyfriend, her first sex and so on. She told me also to read “The ‘Plague” and when I was at Barnes & Noble I bought the book and later I read it while I was lying in my bed.

Chapter thirty-seven

Jessica is down

Jessica has taken all the “Twelve” by midnight, which she saved for New Year’s Eve. When she woke up her sheets were damp with sweat.

Chapter thirty-six

At the cocktail party

Before Chris and Claude went to the party they smoked a joint together. When they were there their aunt wanted to introduce them to someone. Claude took tequila shots and Chris was thinking about what the older women would look like when they are naked.
Then they met Macelle and she asked Chris to what kind of music he’s listing to and when she said that she’s a Beatles fan he answered fuck off Beatles.

Chapter thirty-five

I’m a thinker

My teacher said to me that I’m a thinker and I was thinking about what could happen when I die. While I was thinking I was starring at my mother’s coffin.

Chapter thirty-four

The bells

Chris was watching TV when the delivery guys came. Chris said them to bring the boxes in the wrapping room and when they were gone he opened the boxes with the bells. Names were engraved on them and there were bigger and smaller ones. After testing the belly he went upstairs again to the TV and then he was waiting for the beginning of his aunt’s cocktail party.

Chapter thirty-three

On my mother’s funeral

On my mother’s funeral, she had a wig on her corpse and I was really angry about that, because I wanted to see her real, not with a wig. I wanted to see her without a wig.

Chapter thirty-two

Trying to find an alibi

The blood on Hunters clothes was identified by the forensic tests and of course it was Nana’s.
He tried to find an alibi the whole night and he remembered the old con man, who asked him for two dollars. Hunter asked him for what he needs the money then the old con man started crying.

Chapter thirty-one

Piranhas

Tobias and Molly were talking about what the models life is like and they’re talking about animals and Tobias wanted to show her his piranhas.
They walked to Chris’s house in the guest bedroom with the aquarium. Tobias went down and got a rotisserie-cooked chicken and put in the aquarium and the piranhas’ shredder it in a few seconds. Molly had to leave and Tobias asked her to come on New Year’s Eve again and she answered that she would come.

Chapter thirty

Molly

The girl’s name, who was sitting in the waiting room, is Molly. She is sixteen years old. She has brown hair and thin eyebrows. But Molly was not interested in Tobias.
Molly had a crush on me in our younger age.

Chapter twenty-nine

Meeting at the model agency

Tobias had a meeting with his model-agency. He was discovered, when he was eleven and now he wanted to become a full-time model after finishing the high school.
He loved the photo-shoots. He was thinking about a tattoo above his ass. Then he went out of the shooting here was a beautiful girl, a model too and he thought about how much he would like to sleep with her.

Chapter twenty-eight

Remembering Charlie

I was thinking about Charlie and I remembered what he did when he wanted to fly to Florida. He had not enough money for paying the tickets for the flight, so he took his mom’s expensive jewellery. He pawned the jewellery for 12,000 Dollar. The shop were he pawned the jewellery had also guns and he was proud of the gun, which he bought there.
When his mother came back form Europe and she realized the missing of her jewellery she called the insurance, but Charlie told his mother and so it was an insurance fraud. Then he had to go to an boot camp in Montana.

Chapter twenty-seven

Why I don’t take drugs

Hunter asked me why I don´t take drugs and my answer was that I never had the urge to take them.

Chapter twenty-six

After the deal

After Jessica bought the five tiny Baggies she walked down Fifth Avenue hearing some music.

Chapter twenty-five

My cousin Charlie

After the deal with Jessica, Lionel and I were talking about my cousin Charlie. I said to Lionel to tell Charlie, when he’d see him that I’m looking for him.
Charlie had a lot of nannies in his younger age and he’s the same age as me. But Charlie was a very bad student and then he had to go to another school in grade eight. When he came back, he was different and we had a distant between us.

Chapter twenty-four

My mom’s favourite drink

In one night I woke up and I went into the kitchen. I poured myself a champagne flute of undiluted cranberry juice, my mother’s favourite drink. She always said to me to live the best life I could.

Chapter twenty-three

Jessica wants to buy “Twelve”

I’m walking down Lexington toward Ninety-first Street, because Jessica asked my about “Twelve”- the new drug.
Lionel, a creepy dude with his brown and yellow bloodshot eyes, with his dark skin hooded and an unwashed sweatshirt is with me. He is carrying a gun and he has a son named Jeremy. Jessica was still on this drug now; I saw it in her eyes. I felt very sorry for her, but it’s her own life! She bought five tiny Baggies for a thousand dollars and then she asked for Lionel’s number, because she wants to deal directly with Lionel. Then she hurried toward Fifth Avenue.

Chapter twenty-two

Do you want to make a party?

After Sara had left the hospital, she walked over to Madison. She searched for the number of Chris then she called him and said that she would come to him.
He was looking not very well, but Sara sat down and said that they should throw a party, because his parents were not at home for some days. Then she was trading on her womanly wiles to reach Chris’s agreement. Chris’s dick was getting stuff while she used her wiles. She said that it would be the biggest party ever and she also suggested having some more extra fun with him staring at the bed.

Sara’s grandmother was on the most famous party of her generation on Long Island a long time ago. The police came and this story was on the cover of Life magazine.

Chapter twenty-one

Our new flat

Dear diary,

After my mother died of breast cancer, I and my Father moved right, three and a half years ago. Our new float was very big, but everything was stacked haphazardly. Then I stripped to my shorts and I laid down there. This was my first night in our new flat.

Chapter twenty

In the hospital

After his accident with Jessica, Andrew has to stay for observation in hospital. There is another guy in his room his name is Sean, the boyfriend of Sara Ludlow. He’s captain of the football team, he’s got brown hair and his father is on the Wall Street. Then Sara comes in to visit Sean. They are talking a little bit about Sean’s accident in East Hampton.
She is hearing the music, which Andrew is hearing. She likes it very much and Andrew gives her the CD, in hope for seeing her again.

Chapter nineteen

Calling Chris

After the girls were skating they walked through Fifth Avenue and Jessica called Chris to thank him for helping her last night. She asked him about my number, because she wanted to have more of this special drug called “Twelve”.

Chapter eighteen

Ice-skating

Jessica wakes up in the morning and she remembers the date with their girls at Wollman Rink in Central Park. All the girls agree with certain fundamental things and this holds them together, like to have no sex until the right time comes. They are all pretty and good skinned.
They were skating, when suddenly a guy felt in front of them and Jessica wasn’t able to veen out of the way. She cuts across the boy’s forehead with her skates and blood swirls out on the ice. It was Andrew; he wasn’t allowed to come with his father to help Hunter.

Chapter seventeen

When we were little kids

Dear diary,

When we were little kids, hunter, I, Warren and my cousin Charlie, we were always out with Warren’s nanny Dorine. She was a very good nanny and we had a lot of fun with her. Now I’m thinking about, what she’s doing and what I would say when I would meet her. I want to know what she did in her free time when she put us to sleep.

Chapter sixteen

Saturday December 28

Detectives were at the rec, because of Nana’s death. They talked with Nana’s mother and Arturo. Arturo said that Hunter and Nana had a fight and that Hunter is a racist.
One of the detectives drove to Hunter’s address, bringing him up for questioning. When he saw all the blood on Hunter’s clothes, he couldn’t believe this. It was too easy.
Hunter didn’t know who he should call because his parents are in Europe now. He remembered Andrew, Andrew’s father is working together with his father. Then he called Andrew.

Chapter fifteen

The rapist

Dear diary,

When I was in my tenth-grade year, there was a rapist at the Upper East Side. Megan told me this. She asked me if I could walk with her to her home at Ninety-eighth and Fifth Avenue. I walked with her to Engineer’s Gate and I said that this here is the safest place she could be. When I walked back to downtown I saw a flyer with the rapist and I pictured that man holding down Megan. I felt very bad, because of that.

Chapter fourteen

Jessica lying down there

Chris goes to the bathroom and he finds Jessica lying down there. He likes to stare at her, because he never stared at a live girl like her.

Chapter thirteen

Thinking about my comments

Dear diary,

Now I’m in my apartment, which is big and empty. I’m sitting in front of my desk with the weed. I force myself to enjoy reading or something like that. I read out my comments in grade eleven and I am thinking about the comments, the teacher gave me.

Chapter twelve

Buying weapons

Chris’s brother, Claude and his friend Tobias are walking down Mulberry Street in their green North Face parkas.
Claude is six feet and two inches tall, stronger than his brother. He’s got a perfect skin and an angular face. Now he’s at the high school for the fifth year, because he’s not a good student or athlete. He took a lot of drugs in his past, but now he’s clean.
Tobias is beautiful, because he is a part-time model.
They are walking down Chinatown and they are buying a lot of weapons like throwing stars, nunchakus and some other weapons. When he comes home the party is still going on, but he is not interested. He put all clothes out of his wardrobe and throws them under his bed. Then he put the weapons in his wandrobe and their glint seems to be perfect.

Chapter eleven

Sara at the party

Sara is only one hour at Chris’s party. She doesn´t want to drink anything. She only wants to go home.

Chapter ten

Taking the drug

Jessica is a pretty girl not as pretty as Sara is but she’s okay. She’s got a creamy skin, long brown hair and big brown eyes. She’s got nice breasts and thin lips also she’s a good student. She’s not fat but healthy-looking.

She goes into the bathroom to coke before her guy comes back, but it’s not cocaine it’s something else” Number Twelve”. After she took the drug, she became very crazy and everything changes. She’s talking about Abraham Lincoln and she flows off of the toilet, her face against the porcelain. She’s giggling and lying down there.

I stood in front of my class and I started with my report about Abraham Lincoln, with lots of jokes. Everybody loved my reports.

Chapter nine

At the party

Chris, who makes a lot of parties to find the girl, is seventeen and a half years old. He has got dark blond hair, blue eyes and he’s good enough looking. He’s waiting at the door for the two girls. The girls are looking around in the house and in every room there’s someone, whatever doing. Then Sara says that there are not so many people, but all Chris can think is what it would be like to fuck Sara. Jessica, the girl with the nose job, is also there. She’s making out with a guy from another school.

Chapter eight

In the park

Dear diary,

Today I was at chris´s house. He made a party, but I didn´t want to make party. I walked west, I crossed Fifth Avenue and I went to the east side of the park. I thought about how rich everyone is. I think everything is about want! When you don´t want something, you´ve got nothing! The aim of life in New York has not to be a life without anything!

Chapter seven

Sara and her girlfriends are walking to the party

Sara Ludlow is walking to a party with a girlfriend. She wants to see how she looks, because everyone pays attention on her look. She’s the hottest girl at her school. Chris, who makes the party at Ninetieth Street in Madison, created a chart with girls and she is always at the top. She’s got long legs, large breasts, blond hair, blue eyes and high cheekbones. She’s great-looking. Chris’s brother, Claude, is clean now he was at the rehab. The two girls are talking about Jessica, she got a nose job, and they are also talking about Layla. She’s a real bitch they think and she’s heartless. They are also saying that Jane Grey is crying all the time, because of Layla.

Chapter six

Nana on the way home

Nana lives on 117^th street and Third Avenue. His mother is living at 2123 Third Avenue. Nana is thinking about how he could explain all the blood over him.

He sees two men, both are tall, one slim and one heavy, both are wearing parkas. It seems to be like a deal.

Nana can observe that they are getting into trouble and the white guy is bringing up a gun. The big man punches him, when he saw the gun. He is also bringing up a gun and killed the white kid. Nana is running away but in the wrong direction. The heavy man beats him directly in the side of the mouth. Then he scrambled for the towel, wrapped it around the gun and shot him in his head.

Chapter five

Hunter and his family

Dear diary,

After we were at McDonalds I went into a cab, because I didn’t want to walk. Hunter wanted to walk. He wanted to think about Nana and something else.

Hunter is listening to James Taylor, but he never told someone that he’s listening to him. He went into an elevator and he remembered the story when he was humping air in the age of eleven. The super showed him this tape from the elevator when he turned fifteen.

Hunter stepped into the flat and saw his father, a big man, drinking. He’s always drinking and sad and of course his mother, too. His father didn’t realize the blood all over him. His father is leaving for Europe tomorrow. His mother is there already.

Chapter four

Something about rats

Dear diary,

by the middle of my fall I was dealing at East End Avenue one day when a kid threw a cigarette into a garbage under a fire escape. When the tin was red around the rim I thought about the Plague when this city got shut down. Then there will be a lot of dying rats and there has to be an antidote for people! Sorry about thinking that, but I hate rats!

Chapter three

At the gym with Hunter

Dear diary

When I came to the gym today someone was hurrying down the stairs, all over with blood. Inside I saw Hunter; I haven’t seen him since last September. We both went through the grammar school together. Hunter was also overflowed with blood. I was really surprised what happened. We talked a little bit, how school is and something like this.

We went to McDonalds to eat something. We also talked about college, Harvard or Dartmouth. Warren our best friend is in Harvard. Warren is my year. We were thinking about old times with Warren

Chapter two

Before I came to the gym

Dear diary,

Today I will tell you something about Hunter, one of my best friends, what had happened with him.

Hunter is a white kid, six feet tall and he’s a very good basketball player. His family name is McCulloch, Hunter McCulloch. But now I will tell you what had happened.

Hunter was uptown at the Rec and Nana was also there. Nana is the best ball handler on the court. He played a half-court game, because he’s so strong and a fantastic player. Lanky Jerry, the only white kid besides Hunter was in the other team. Jerry knocked Nana out, then Nana gets up and went up to the mezzanine. Nana was pissed off, but his teammates yelled that he had to come back to the field, so that they can go on playing, but he ignored everybody. Nana is a very sensitive kid I think. Hunter took Nana’s spot. While Hunter was playing Arturo came to the Rec, a Puerto Rican kid. After a while Nana came back and he wanted to play again. Hunter never wanted to cause any trouble, so he went out of the field, but all the other kids yelled that Hunter should come back and play, because Nana left, so it’s Hunters turn. After that Nana was pissed off a second time and got up in Hunter’s face. Then Hunter hits Nana and he got rocked. Hunter ran around the gym before Nana cornered him. Nana charged and got a knee to his teeth. Everywhere was blood. Nana was for real! Then the other kids pulled Hunter and Nana apart each other. Hunter was pissed off now, too! The whole time Arturo yelled something stupid, so Hunter grabbed a basketball and threw it at the back of Arturo’s head.

Nana went home out covered with blood and Hunter couldn’t believe in that what had happened.

Chapter one

Two days after Christmas

Dear diary,

Hello I am White Mike! I am a thin and pale person. Mostly I wear jeans and today I am dressed in jeans and a hooded sweatshirt with a dark blue overcoat. My hair is blond, but it’s nearly white and it’s cropped tight, that’s my hairstyle. I am a very well-behaved person, because I’ve never drunk alcohol or smoked a cigarette, but I’m a drug dealer. Yeah, now you think “why doesn’t he take drugs, when he’s a drug dealer?”, but as I said I am well-behaved.

Before I started my drug dealer career, I was a good student, but my last school day is six months ago. I am taking a year off before I’ll go to college, perhaps longer than one year, to become rich by drug-selling.
Its two days after Christmas now and I’m selling a lot of drugs, because the kids got their Christmas-money. Today I was in Harlem, there has been a little bit snow, but not very much, in TV they said, that this winter is the coldest in decades.
I’ll tell you something about my past, when I started my drug dealer career. I made an experiment three days long without any sleep, to sell a lot of drugs and get to know, what a junkie fells. These three days were not very easy for me because all in all I got really aggressive, because of my less sleep. I had luck that one of my friends, his name is Hunter, put me in a cab to drive me home.
My mother is dead now for a lot of years. I miss her very much, because we had a very clone relationship, but now I’ve to manage my own life.

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