The research paper is due on thursday and I am almost finished completing it. It took me a while to come up with a research topic and i finally decided to base it around teen suicide mostly because The Pact's plot centers around a suicide. This is such a sensitive subject and i've never really explored the subject in depth. The Pact's author, Jodi Picoult, purposely chose to involve suicide in the book's plot because of her own experience as an English teacher and knowing a suicidal student was among her class. Picoult felt responsible to help this young teen girl overcome her depression and suicidal thoughts.