Arts are good for the children, she thought. He had nothing to say to his mother. It was just another normal night, for a normal kid, living in a normal American family. Everyone in Billy s normal world is deathly afraid of death. Death is the end.
Death s the great disease.
Death, then, is powerful. Billy s heavy metal music is fixated with the idea of death. Billy thinks a lot about it. Maybe death is the only thing people respect anymore because they re scared of it. And, so, one morning, after a thousand days like the one just described, little Billy packs a gun in his knapsack and heads off to school.