Jodie Picoult's Nineteen Minutes Jodie Picoult's Nineteen Minutes 717 Words3 Pages Nineteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult is a riveting story about how an ordinary morning at Sterling High, in small-town New Hampshire, turns into the day that destroys friendships, families and lives. Nineteen Minutes is not only chilling and compelling, but it explores the controversial topic of bullying, and the consequences that can result. Peter Houghton, the main character, is not your typical teenage boy. I believe that Picoult eloquently illustrated his character when saying, âPeter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contractâ (Picoult, 186). Ever since his first day of kindergarten, Peter had been tormented physically and mentally by his classmates for twelve