I think that maybe some of them would have given up but that Mark would continue to kill him.

................................................................ maybe...

I agree with SkullCandy, mark was seriously messed up in the worst of ways.

Mark is a psychopath. There is no way around that explaination. We've discussed it in so many ways... He set a cat on fire, killed several people, had a manipulative cruel mind, and had the desire to scare his teacher into thinking death was but a few moments away. There is only one thing cetain: Mark had the intentions to kill Mr. Griffin all along.

Yes, and Mark killing his dad? I kinda knew that all along. It was kind of obvious after the kitty-bonfire