Shooter-Walter Dean Myers cycle 3 Pages 106-121

In this section of the reading they switch interviews as it was usually Cameron, but now they are interviewing his friend Carla. During the interview they go a lot into Carla's background and what was happening right up to the moment of the shooting. During the interview I was able to find out the Carla was living a very bad life because she had to always take care of her parents. She said that they couldn’t fend for themselves so she ended up doing most of the work. With all of the duties taking a toll on her she was starting to fall behind in school and eventually made friends with Cameron and Len. She said she found both of them attractive and actually had a relationship with Len. The day before the shooting Len told Carla to buy a can of paint because they were going to vandalize the school. Carla agreed to this and when she met Len and Cameron 10 minutes before school started they were standing there with guns armed. They started shooting and she was dragged by Cameron and she became confused and delusional.
This new interview is very interesting because the interrogator voice seems to be more understanding of Carla than he was with Cameron. When Cameron avoided the question he would be persistent and keep pressing the same question. With Carla however when she says shes not going to answer the question he backs away. By the way Carla is talking she seems to be rather irritated or annoyed that she has to participate with the interview. By the words she chooses she seems really uninterested.
It was really interesting to find out what the events that led up to the shooting from a different person's perspective. From Carla's interview I was able to find out much more information about what happened during the actual shooting. The question though is why did Len want Carla to buy a can of paint to vandalize the school even if they were going to go through with the shooting? Why didn’t Carla realize what's going on? Hopefully my questions will be answered.

Quarter 4 Cycle 2 Post Shooter-Walter Dean Myers pages 91-106

The section I read this cycle was mostly about Len and his normal social life. At this point in the book, the author decided to switch interrogators. In the book Cameron says the Len had anger issues but never really hated anybody. They then again mention the "list" that Cameron writes names of the people that have caused him trouble. Len also had it with this teacher that told him that he wasn't the leading type. This really upset Len and he ended up telling Cameron that he wanted to shoot the teacher. Cameron thought nothing of it, but Len would keep telling him that he was going to shoot her but none of this really bothered Cameron. Cameron also said that they were "pushed around" a lot meaning that they were picked on. Cameron just got disappointed but Len on the other hand would get angry furthermore suggesting the motive for the shooting at the school.
Throughout this section of the reading I noticed that Cameron said that he was "disappointed" or "I thought nothing of it at the time" When Cameron says this it shows me that he has a very weak mind and is also unaware of what is going on around him. By having a weak mind Cameron would let the little things get to him. I think this also made him unaware of Lens actions due to the fact that Cameron is already at rock bottom.
From this section of the reading the motive starts to become much clearer. From learning that Len repeatedly said that he was going to shoot the teacher suggest that the teacher set him off pretty good. What makes me wonder is that Cameron didn’t think much of Len's actions or word choice. Why is Cameron so unaware of everything that is going around him? As I read further hopefully I unveil the real truth.

Shooter-Walter Dean Myers Quarter 4 Cycle 1 pages 76-91

The section I read this cycle goes into the relationship Cameron has with his best friend Len. Besides the fact that they both love to shoot Cameron and Len never seemed to have the same interest as Cameron likes physical activity and Len doesn't like to engage in anything physical. According to Cameron they just "got along" The relationship doesn’t seem to be really strong as a normal best friend's relationship would be. The reason Len liked him though was because Cameron didn’t game on him. Len's other friends however are racist because at the shooting range they will always shoot at other black people. This never seemed to bother Cameron because Len would just laugh it off and Cameron would do the same. I don’t understand how Cameron has no bad feelings towards this.

In this portion of the reading there weren’t any literary devices used but I noticed that it seems that Cameron is afraid of Len. When Cameron answers questions about Len he never says anything bad about him as if Len makes him hide all the stuff that goes on in their adventures.

This section of the reading continues to develop the motive for the shooting at the school. With Len being somewhat of a "racist" this leads me to think that he shot a black kid because of the way he was raised. At the shooting range all of the elders are always shooting at people such as Martin Luther King. It seems to me that Len was brought up this way and he has become completely brainwashed.