Years of humiliation in school and at home have finally caused fourteen year old Seth Mason to snap. High school didn’t bring any change he had hoped for, the terrors of middle school years never stopped. His family is a joke, a beautiful facade of wealth and righteousness hiding a cesspool of dysfunction. His only ally, his grandmother, has died, and everyone else betrayed him. Not even the Nomans, the voices in his head, were ever really on his side. Sex couldn’t satisfy him either because, as always, people only used him, which drained him emotionally. But it’s all over now. He warned them after all. For more than a year he warned everyone in his blog, but no one listened. He knew one day he wouldn’t take any of it anymore, and not even Alex, his psychiatrist who always made his hormones run wild, could have changed his mind. The hypnotherapy she insisted Seth should try only made things worse. It made him realize he didn’t lose his innocence at age six like he always believed, when he found his mother in bed with a strange man while looking for his lost rabbit, but that all his life he had been living a lie. Now, besieged by police in his high school after killing numerous teachers and students, he reflects on the months leading up to his revenge, and prepares himself for the inevitable.
Rampant high school shootings still make headlines. But what drives a seemingly ordinary kid to walk into a school and shoot at other kids? Narrated by fourteen year old Seth Mason, PAINTING BY NUMBERS tells of the months leading up to the day he killed a number of his teachers and fellow students in his high school. Set in modern day America, this psychological journey takes the reader deep into the dark mind of a very disturbed teen. While not exactly that of Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold, the tale of Seth Mason is possibly closer to reality for more disconnected kids across America than most parents are aware of.Years of humiliation in school and at home have finally caused fourteen year old Seth Mason to snap. High school didn’t bring any change he had hoped for, the terrors of middle school years never stopped. His family is a joke, a beautiful facade of wealth and righteousness hiding a cesspool of dysfunction. His only ally, his grandmother, has died, and everyone else betrayed him. Not even the Nomans, the voices in his head, were ever really on his side. Sex couldn’t satisfy him either because, as always, people only used him, which drained him emotionally. But it’s all over now. He warned them after all. For more than a year he warned everyone in his blog, but no one listened. He knew one day he wouldn’t take any of it anymore, and not even Alex, his psychiatrist who always made his hormones run wild, could have changed his mind. The hypnotherapy she insisted Seth should try only made things worse. It made him realize he didn’t lose his innocence at age six like he always believed, when he found his mother in bed with a strange man while looking for his lost rabbit, but that all his life he had been living a lie. Now, besieged by police in his high school after killing numerous teachers and students, he reflects on the months leading up to his revenge, and prepares himself for the inevitable.
Rampant high school shootings still make headlines. But what drives a seemingly ordinary kid to walk into a school and shoot at other kids? Narrated by fourteen year old Seth Mason, PAINTING BY NUMBERS tells of the months leading up to the day he killed a number of his teachers and fellow students in his high school. Set in modern day America, this psychological journey takes the reader deep into the dark mind of a very disturbed teen. While not exactly that of Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold, the tale of Seth Mason is possibly closer to reality for more disconnected kids across America than most parents are aware of.
Years of humiliation in school and at home have finally caused fourteen year old Seth Mason to snap. High school didn’t bring any change he had hoped for, the terrors of middle school years never stopped. His family is a joke, a beautiful facade of wealth and righteousness hiding a cesspool of dysfunction. His only ally, his grandmother, has died, and everyone else betrayed him. Not even the Nomans, the voices in his head, were ever really on his side. Sex couldn’t satisfy him either because, as always, people only used him, which drained him emotionally. But it’s all over now. He warned them after all. For more than a year he warned everyone in his blog, but no one listened. He knew one day he wouldn’t take any of it anymore, and not even Alex, his psychiatrist who always made his hormones run wild, could have changed his mind. The hypnotherapy she insisted Seth should try only made things worse. It made him realize he didn’t lose his innocence at age six like he always believed, when he found his mother in bed with a strange man while looking for his lost rabbit, but that all his life he had been living a lie. Now, besieged by police in his high school after killing numerous teachers and students, he reflects on the months leading up to his revenge, and prepares himself for the inevitable.
Rampant high school shootings still make headlines. But what drives a seemingly ordinary kid to walk into a school and shoot at other kids? Narrated by fourteen year old Seth Mason, PAINTING BY NUMBERS tells of the months leading up to the day he killed a number of his teachers and fellow students in his high school. Set in modern day America, this psychological journey takes the reader deep into the dark mind of a very disturbed teen. While not exactly that of Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold, the tale of Seth Mason is possibly closer to reality for more disconnected kids across America than most parents are aware of.Years of humiliation in school and at home have finally caused fourteen year old Seth Mason to snap. High school didn’t bring any change he had hoped for, the terrors of middle school years never stopped. His family is a joke, a beautiful facade of wealth and righteousness hiding a cesspool of dysfunction. His only ally, his grandmother, has died, and everyone else betrayed him. Not even the Nomans, the voices in his head, were ever really on his side. Sex couldn’t satisfy him either because, as always, people only used him, which drained him emotionally. But it’s all over now. He warned them after all. For more than a year he warned everyone in his blog, but no one listened. He knew one day he wouldn’t take any of it anymore, and not even Alex, his psychiatrist who always made his hormones run wild, could have changed his mind. The hypnotherapy she insisted Seth should try only made things worse. It made him realize he didn’t lose his innocence at age six like he always believed, when he found his mother in bed with a strange man while looking for his lost rabbit, but that all his life he had been living a lie. Now, besieged by police in his high school after killing numerous teachers and students, he reflects on the months leading up to his revenge, and prepares himself for the inevitable.
Rampant high school shootings still make headlines. But what drives a seemingly ordinary kid to walk into a school and shoot at other kids? Narrated by fourteen year old Seth Mason, PAINTING BY NUMBERS tells of the months leading up to the day he killed a number of his teachers and fellow students in his high school. Set in modern day America, this psychological journey takes the reader deep into the dark mind of a very disturbed teen. While not exactly that of Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold, the tale of Seth Mason is possibly closer to reality for more disconnected kids across America than most parents are aware of.
Painting by numbers
