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Summary: She Said Yes and So Should You About This Book
Review: This book is about a girl who struggles dealing with her parents, Satanism and her faith. Cassie grows up a normal life but somewhere something went wrong and she began to hang out with the wrong type of people who were satin worshipers, involved with drugs and some who had suicidal episodes. Cassie Bernall gave her soul to the devil and never in a million years dreamed of accepting Jesus Christ as her savior. Her parents decided that she was sure to crash and burn in the route that she was headed, so they took the reins to her life. Cassie's parent's tried so hard to point the girl in the right direction, but in the end it was ultimately her choice in what and how she lives her life. In the end Cassie was faced with a life or death situation that her parents couldn't make for her and which put her faith to the test?
Of all of the books that I have read it must be said that this tops the charts. I found this book to be an attention grabber a life altering book. It was amazing that someone can transform from a satin-worshipping rebellious teen to a God fearing and enemy-loving person. I could honestly relate with some of the things and problems that Cassie Bernall encountered. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has some spare time for a desire to read an amazing, heart touching book.
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Summary: She Said Yes
Review: " She Said Yes," a book about Cassie Brunell. This book is about a 17 year old girl in the 11th grade at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado named Cassie Brunell. The author begins by taking the reader to the Columbine High School campus on that infamous day April 20, 1999. That morning at 11:20 am two crazed student gun men walked into the school library and opened fire. While they were shooting they picked out people they did not like and one of them was Cassie. They held their guns to her head and asked if she believed in God and she answered "yes". Because of Cassie's courage to say "yes" she was shot in the head. Then the book talked about her life as she was a little girl up to that terrible day. It tells about how she was leading the same life style as the gun men until two years before the shooting. That's when her parents enrolled her in a different school, Columbine High. Cassie got involved in church and later even began to lead bible studies and youth groups. This book made me wonder, what if I were in her position? What would I say? What would I do? I pray that my faith would be as strong as Cassie's. This book is a very heart warming book. I encourage everyone to read this great book.
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Summary: Something happened that would change everyones lives forever
Review: "She Said Yes" is a book about a girl name Cassie. Cassie went to school one day just like she normally would, but something went wrong that day, something that would change every ones lives forever.
Cassie grew up a normal life, she had friends, she was involved in sports, and she was close with her family. But something went wrong somewhere and she began to hang out with the wrong type of friends. Cassie gave her soul to the devil and never wanted accept Jesus Christ. Her best friend was a girl that wanted to be a vampire and kill her parents. But later on she found out about God, and started making new friends. After a while, she was happier and had strong beliefs about God .In the end Cassie was faced with a life or death situation, two boys went on a rampage and started killing people at Cassie's school. Cassie was in the library with some friends, all of a sudden they hear someone saying "get down." So she got under one of the tables. One of the shooters came up to her and asked her if she believes in god and she said "Yes" so they shot her in the head. And she died instantly.
"She Said Yes" was a very interesting book. I would recommend this book to everyone 13 and older (pre-teens, teenagers, and up). I really enjoyed this book. I would think that it was hard for Misty Bernall (Cassie's mother) to write this book about her daughter. But how I look at it, I think it helped her cope with her daughter's death. A lot of people went through the same thing she did. This book also helped a lot of those people. It showed then that they were not the only ones going through that situation. Over 50 kids died that day because of those two boys.
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Summary: She Said Yes
Review: "She Said Yes" is a true story based on the shootings that occurred on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Cassie Bernall, the author's daughter, was one of the thirteen students murdered that day. On the outside Cassie was like any other teenage girl, but on the inside there was a dark evil part of her that only few new existed. This tells of how a young troubled girl finds faith in God and because of it becomes content and happy with whom she is. Her parents give up a lot to help her change her life for the better. Cassie accepts God and the things that he does, and for it she was killed. Cassie died for what she believed in. She was not afraid to be herself. Misty wrote this book about her daughter not to make for people's sympathy but to show people that just being yourself and loving yourself is enough. Many kids Cassie's age just want to be "cool" and be popular so they give up the things that they love or believe just to have that label. Through church and the people that love her and care for her, Cassie realized what was important in her life and that she wanted to make a change and she did. No one understands why they choose her that day, but for many people Cassie is a hero.
I absolutely loved this book. Reading this book and hearing what Cassie's mother and friends said about her made me feel connected to her in some way. I can relate to Cassie, I think every teenage girl can and seeing how she overcame all the hatred in her life and found faith and hope in God made me realize how I want my life to be. I do not want to change who I am just so I can fit in. I am who I am and that is perfectly fine for me. I do not exactly know what I would have done if I were in Cassie's place. Would I have said yes, or no, or anything at all? That is a question I ask myself everyday. I am not sure that I would have been as brave as her, but her bravery has made me realize the important things in life and for that I am grateful. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Cassie's story is very inspiring and I believe it would help a lot of people by making them realize what is important to them.
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Summary: Amazing and Truthful
Review: A trippy, truly Joycean fantasy with some extraordinary moments that ends with a bang.
Cassie seems to have been a pretty hip girl until she fell prone to religious dementia. After that, death must have come almost as a relief. This harrowing study of mental illness will make your blood boil.
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Summary: She Said Yes book review
Review: Book Review
Bernall, Misty. She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom
of Cassie Bernall. North Remington, Pennsylvania:
The Rough Publishing House, 1999, 140 pages.
She Said Yes is a heart-wrenching story of Cassie Bernall, a young
teenage girl who was violently put to death by two of her crazed classmates
at Columbine High School. Cassie Bernall was one of many students who were
studying in the library the day the killers went on their rampage. While
hiding underneath one of the tables, she was approached by one of the
killers who put a gun up to her head and asked her, "Do you believe in
God?" Cassie responded, "Yes," and was killed instantly with a bullet to
the brain. Cassie Bernall showed her undying faith in God, and for that she
is a true hero.
She Said Yes is written by Cassie's Mother, Misty Bernall, who recounts the
months that led up to her daughters abrupt death. This book will make you
appreciate life, and will make you grateful that you still have a life to
live. It is well written and easy to understand. One could only hope to
have the courage and faith Cassie Bernall had when faced with one easy, yet
difficult question, "Do you believe in God?" but instead of taking the easy
way out she said, "yes."
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Summary: The True Story of Cassie Bernall
Review: Cassie had turned down the wrong road. She was gothic, disturbing, and on the inside, very miserble. But she found out about God, and started making new friends...nicer friends. Before she knew it, she was happier and had strong beliefs about God. Though her relationship with her mother was never completely right, she had made a huge leap from goth to Christian. From reading this book, you will see that goths are not people who wear black and write strange poetry...they are people who speak and write of such horrible things, they can be disturbing to ADULTS. I most certainly WOULD NOT recommed this book to young children, and people who are easily disturbed.
The next part is one that will get you asking yourself questions, and wondering how one 17 year old girl could be so brave. When Cassie's school was attacked by two boys (disturbing people like she used to be) armed with guns and bombs, everything went into chaos. Many people, as you will find in this book, sacrificed their safety, and some even their lives to save others from gunfire. But what Cassie did is something that will continuously amaze you. One of the gunmen stuck his gun to her head and asked her if she believed in God. Amazingly, she said "Yes". He asked her why, but didn't give her a chance to answer. He shot her in the head, killing her instantly. Many would want to say "No", just to spare their lives. But she didn't cower.
This book was interesting, though a little boring in some parts. After all, I wanted more action and less of the aftertaste of Cassie's death. But I'm sure for the author, Cassie's mother, this book was a good way to get out her feelings of sadness. There are some hints to cussing and some topics that are not at all appropriate for kids. I only recommend this book to teens, maybe pre-teens, and adults. After reading some of this book one night, I felt this feeling of peacefulness. It just goes to show that you don't have to be wrong with God to learn from this book. It teaches you to appreciate what you've got, because you never know when you might lose it.
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Summary: A True Heart-Warming Story
Review: I loved this book. When I first started reading it, I couldn't put it down! She Said Yes is a true story that tells the life of Cassie Bernall, who had a gun pointed at her at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. This story is narrated by Cassie's mother, Misty Bernall. This story brings us back to the real meaning of peer pressure and Cassie's hardships with both her parents and friends, through the high school life of Cassie Bernall, a regular teenager in the Real World. There was one question that was to be answered when a gun was pointed to her head. Q: Do you believe in God? A: Yes. Through this story, you will learn how Cassie Bernall spent her last minutes and how tough her life had been before this tragic event happened. If you want to know the true meaning of overcoming the rough times of life and what it really means to lose a close friend, seen through the eyes of a real person, read She Said Yes.
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Summary: Uplifting, Moving and Enlightening Story
Review: I, personally, do not care whther or not Cassie actually said "Yes." First off, I don't think that that's the purpose for these reviews, and secondly, if you've read the book, it's obviously about so much more than the fact that Cassie said Yes when asked if she believed in God. Misty Bernall and her family have been through so much, and I admire her for being so willing to share her and Cassie's story with us. This book has touched me as it has many others. It's just mean and cruel to suggest that Misty was trying to capitalize on her daughter's death. I don't think any mother could do that. Misty tells of Cassie's early years, and then explains to readers how Cassie got involved with the "wrong crowd", dabbling in witchcraft, obsessing over death, and exchanging obscene and frightening letters with her friends, which Cassie's parents found in her bedroom. Fearing "losing" Cassie, her parents clamped down on her, and struggled with the anger and depression of the daughter they dearly loved. Then Misty tells of Cassie's "About face", how she met a friend at Private school who turned her life around through YOuth Group and just simple, plain companionship. We all know what happened to Cassie. But it's not ABOUT what happened at Columbine. It's about the touching story of someone who was living completely for God during a time in her life when it extremely hard to do it. And Cassie tryed to keep a positive attitude even though she was struggling with adolescence, and she was touchingly unselfish. Cassie's story isn't about whther or not she said Yes. Misty even says so (to an extent) in the last chapters of her book. Cassie's story is about a teenager who found herself and how from a dark, oppresed teen who wrote about murdering her parents emerged a changed person who, by a horrible tragedy, became an example for us all. And I don't think Cassie or Misty or the Bernalls want celebrity status. Still, this book has been an extremely uplifting one, and I am motivated to be more like Cassie was. I think everyone should read this book, because it will both make smile and make you cry..it tugs on your heartstrings. A truly touching story...worth the time to read.
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Summary: A Truly Amazing Story
Review: It pains me so much to read the first sentence of the Amazon summary. I wish it wasn't so. But the truth will always win out.
Really, the book is an incredible story of one young woman's life. It's a shame that her parents felt it was OK to lie about what happened in her last moments on this earth, but perhaps they felt they couldn't land a book deal without some "real-life drama".
It's a shame, too. Cassie was a great example to anyone, and a wonderful illustration of the redemptive power of religion. Her story easily could have stood on its own, and it should have been allowed to. Instead, in a moment of greed, her parents made a decision that will haunt them the rest of their lives.
Well, it's still a good book, and most of it is still relevant. I'm just sorry I gave my money to the Bernalls. They're liars, and liars don't deserve to be rewarded.
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