Many people go through high school hating every second and wishing for nothing else but to be done with it, the lucky few manage to turn high school into a good experience. High school is supposed to be a place of learning, but for many people becomes a form of prison. Between the work, drama, bullies, lies and shattered hearts many people become unable to deal with the various pressures and do anything in their power to escape. Some however, for whatever reasons, reach their mental breaking point and snap. Their have been many cases of school violence and school shootings as a result of bullying and other in-school factors, such as the Columbine shooting, in which two "loners" opened fire on their peers and teachers. Several people were killed and many more were injured.
I believe that the novel Fall may be a social criticism on how acts of bullying and emotional abuse are usually shrugged off, and rarely punished. People, bullies especially, rarely think about the longterm results their mockery might have on an individual. Noel was always bullied and to escape being bullied his mind began to create a different persona and reality of who he was. His mind took on the persona of the most popular boy in school, someone who would never be picked on. In the end he could no longer take it, instead of shooting up his school he began to slowly hurt the people around him. He was the cause of the death of an innocent girl, and caused the disfigurement of his roommate, someone he used to look up to.
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