Chapter Seventeen & Eighteen

In these two chapters (seventeen and eighteen) we learn much about the consequences and the reasons of the horrible incident in Rocky River High School.

In chapter seventeen Matt Donaghy notices his mother crying in the bathroom. She received a white envelope. In that envelope there’s an old article from the newspaper about “area teen questioned in bomb scare (p. 124, ll. 12-13)”. But on that article there’s a message: “Your neighbors are not safe we are not going to forget”. Though Matt was released by the police, the neighborhood thinks that he’s guilty.

Matt is totally innocent. He didn’t plan an amok or anything else like that. He’s a peaceful person, but unfortunately not everyone believes him. They’ll continue to evade him or they might terrorize him more and more with such letters or there will be worse things.

Mrs. Donaghy also knows that and she’s extremely desperate. Before she liked this area in Rocky River, but now she only sees the bad things, everything is ugly (p. 125, l. 1). She doesn’t have any hope that something is going to change.
The witnesses, their identities we also find out, have destructed the life of the family Donaghy. There won’t be a good future for them in Rocky River. Probably they must move to another city.

The most important information we get in these chapters is that the Brewer twins are the witnesses who said that Matt wants to kill as many people as possible (p. 129, ll. 12-15).
Ursula Riggs accuses the twins of having blamed Matt though they knew it’s been a joke. Then they say that she doesn’t have any evidences and this is true, but they really act as if they really did that (p.129, ll. 124-125).

The Brewer twins are two, by their father’s ideologies swayed, girls. They don’t know which horrible consequences their action can have. They try to do everything possible against people with other attitudes or ideologies.
They are a kind of psycho terrorists with no conscience. As I see it this kind of person is one of the most horrible ones. They can destroy so many lives, only because they’re thinking different.