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Kevin becomes more and more extreme as a teenager. Eva wonders if he does it so that she will somehow owe him later for keeping her secret. Surprisingly, Eva doesn't have to lie to her husband about what happened-Kevin lies for Eva. One day, she gets so angry, she throws little Kevin across the nursery, breaking his arm on the changing table. He uses his diaper to drive his mother crazy, pooping in it immediately after each time she changes him. Kevin also wears a diaper until he's six years old, which isn't typical behavior for anyone. Franklin thinks this is typical boy behavior.

Throughout all this, Eva thinks her son is disturbed. He tries to turn classmates in kindergarten against each other. He shoots grape juice over Eva's white clothes with a squirt gun.

These types of conundrums are typical for this story.Īs Kevin grows up, he acts out. She's unsure if Kevin won't nurse because she doesn't love him or if she doesn't love him because he won't nurse. Kevin is born, and she feels no love for the child who won't nurse. Who is to blame for Kevin's actions? Eva herself, the cold and distant mother? Kevin, who seems to have been evil from birth? Or Franklin, the overenthusiastic, enabling father?Įva walks us through a timeline of her life. In her letters, Eva tries to work out what went wrong. Having a psychopath for a son will put some strain on a marriage, that's for sure. They have been separated since Kevin's crime. Over a year later, Kevin's mother, Eva, begins to write letters to her husband, Franklin. School shootings shouldn't belong anywhere in the country, but they happen, and on April 8, 1999, fictional Kevin Khatchadourian kommits a killer krime of his own, trapping nine classmates and a teacher and killing most of them with a bow and many arrows. One of these things is not like the other. In April 1999, Drew Barrymore had Never Been Kissed, Cher told everyone to "Believe," and two kids shot up a high school in Columbine, Colorado.