How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which normal middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' garage.
In Littleton, normal middle-class kids are engaging in harmful activities, like building bombs in their garage.
The middle-class kids in Littleton engage in the usual things like playing sports and flirting with their crushes.
I saw Jacob's life in my mind.
An outdoor market.
The men are reading a book.
The security apparatus is entirely in Arafat's control.
A man is browsing at a store.
A bartender creates a new cocktail.