Throughout the book "The Laramie Project" I felt like the novel was hyper dramacising th whole idea of the murder. Some of the peoples opinions in the book met up with mine; even though it was more than likely a hate crime, Matthew was far from a perfect person. With the media putting him up on a pedestal for being a saint and trying to make more news out of the story, it just made the idea of the book sort of sickening to me. I liked that the novel revealed these other opinions or else I would have just found the book biased and unaffectual. I think that the story brought more attention to the problem rather than resolving it, and it only widened the gap between the two opinions. Rather than dealing with this in a reserved and respectable manner towards Matthews family, it was publicised and sides were taken. I found that the book explored just about every angle of the story, which is what I enjoyed about it.
As it turns out the book was not all that bad, though it may not something I would read on my own, the ideas it portrays are very true, it reveals the morality of humans and the expamplifies the effects the media has on news stories.
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