In this riveting book, acclaimed author Matthew Quick unflinchingly examines the impossible choices that must be made-and the light in us all that never goes out. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches. (Pg 5) Now that could be taken as a horrible joke, but he also has the P-83 handgun. The main character, Leonard Peacock, seems a bit insane because already in the first chapter, he says, Especially after I actually kill Asher Beal and off myself. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather's P-38 pistol.īut first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart-obsessed next-door neighbor, Walt his classmate Baback, a violin virtuoso Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on and Herr Silverman, who teaches the high school's class on the Holocaust. The book Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick was quite the read. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was-that I couldn't stick around-and that what's going to happen today isn't their fault. In fact, his mother doesn’t even live with him most of the time, since he is attending high school in South Jersey and she is off in New York City working on her fashion design career. Sometimes he skips school and rides the subway just to watch adults going to and from work. Leonard is a depressed teen who envisions a hopeless future. He’s going to kill his childhood friend Asher Beal, and then himself with his grandfather’s Nazi-era P38 handgun. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock is a dark book. Leonard Peacock has big plans for his 18th birthday. Combining humour and hope, the novel targets the most controversial issues effecting teenagers today: depression and school shootings. I want to give them each something to remember me by. This book begins on the morning of Leonard Peacock’s 18th birthday, which even his own mother doesn’t remember. Matthew Quick’s Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock was a poignant, moving novel that everyone needs to read. In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. The young adult novel Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock depicts the day 18-year-old Leonard Peacock plans to carry out a murder-suicide.
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