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Rachel Scott in 1997
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AUTHOR: Rachel Joy Scott (August 5, 1981 – April 20,
1999) was an American student and the first murder victim of the Columbine High
School massacre, which claimed the lives of 11 other students and a
teacher as well as both perpetrators.
She
has since been the subject of several books and is the inspiration for Rachel's Challenge,
an international school outreach program and the most popular school assembly
program in America. Its aim is to advocate Scott's belief, based on her life,
her journals, and the contents of a two-page essay
penned just a month before her murder entitled My Ethics; My Codes of Life
which advocates her belief in compassion being "the
greatest form of love humans have to offer".
Owing
to the fact both Scott and Anne Frank died at a
young age through the intolerance and hatred of others, and that both girls had
written of their wishes to change the world for the better through the simple
acts of love and kindness, parallels have been drawn by her uncle, among
others, between the journals she wrote in her short lifespan and Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young
Girl.
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