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Shannon is a friend and former classmate of Aaron McKinney’s. Stephen Belber runs into Shannon at the Fireside Bar with his friend Jen and interviews the two of them. Shannon indicates that both he and Aaron were frequent drug users. When asked if he, Jen, and Aaron went to high school together, Shannon calls them both “a product of their society,” suggesting that they are not the only ones to blame for the adults that they became.
Shannon Quotes in The Laramie Project
The The Laramie Project quotes below are all either spoken by Shannon or refer to Shannon. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 2: Shannon and Jen Quotes
“You guys both went to Laramie High?”
“Yeah. Can’t you tell? We’re a product of our society.”
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In this quote, Stephen Belber, who is interviewing two friends of Aaron McKinney’s after running into them at a bar, asks if “you guys” went to Laramie High School. It is unclear from the context whether Stephen means only Shannon and Jen or whether he is including Aaron in “you guys,” but, regardless, Shannon seems to speak for all three of them when she responds “Yeah. Can’t you tell?” Shannon’s affirmation and his comment that they are “a product of [their] society” suggests that Shannon views himself and his friends as having been heavily shaped by the culture they were Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusan
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Shannon Character Timeline in The Laramie Project
The timeline below shows where the character Shannon appears in The Laramie Project. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act 2: Shannon and Jen
...Shepard was last seen when he encountered two friends of Aaron McKinney. One of them, Shannon, tells Stephen that he thought what happened was “really really awful,” but he goes on...
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Shannon implies, though, that she can understand how, if Aaron McKinney were high on meth, he...
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...they would want to hang out with Aaron and smoke weed. Stephen asks if both Shannon and Jen went to Laramie High, and Shannon says yes, calling them “a product of...
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