Let’s say a father left his child and wife to be with another woman 6 months before one of the most depressing events in American history, 9/11. The son has a lot on his mind to tell the father, but the son never got to, because on 9/11 his father died. Now the son, Bart Rangely, had to go to a school that was suppose to benefit his future, when really it bullied it. This is a Realistic Fiction book by Francine Prose. If Ms. Prose wrote Bullyville to express the loss people had in their family after 9/11, she also portrayed this book to show how bullying can eat up your life. Being lonely makes you an easier target for bully. Bart knew no one when entering Bailywell, he was all by himself. No one could help Bart know things about the classes he had, about the teachers he was going to be with. No one could ease Bart into the school system. Loneliness sums up Bart’s first day, and every day of his new school at an all boys school Bailywell Prep Academy. Bart felt like he was on pause, and no would help press the resume button. “But now I just felt like a big rock stuck in the middle of school while everything flowed around me. ( Prose Page 83)” The person that was …show more content…
Tyro’s disrespect towards Bart was something that should never happen to anyone in human history. It was unthinkable and it went too far. Tyro decided to send a fake text message, but the response wasn’t fake. "’It's hot. It's very hot. It's burning hot. I'm burning up. Love, Dad.’ (Prose Page 150)” Finally Tyro broke Bart’s soul, and Bart expressed his emotions with pain, and loneliness. “I went into one of the stalls and burst into heaving, choking sobs. I was crying for myself, and for Dad, and for everything I'd lost, and for how lonely and scared I was, and how I couldn't tell anyone, and how no one could help me. (Prose 151)” Sadness completely ate Bart, and Bart could turn to no one to express
This book is timeless, bullying is ongoing. The setting of the 1970s and 80s makes the experience for the reader really see how timeless this book is.
“Bullying is also not an action flick, it’s a psychodrama. It’s not going to glide naturally toward a happy ending; both perpetrator and victim have deep psychological needs to heap, abuse or absorb it” (Gale Student Resources in Context). This quote is sating that bullying is not based on a hero overcoming physical feats and violence, but it is where the main interest is psychological elements. This ties into the novel because it exhibits the psychological effects of the victim and the psychological issues the bullies have. In the novel, Ender’s Game, a boy named Andrew Wiggin, also known as Ender, is the third child in his family. The government only allows people to have two children but in this case the Wiggin’s first two children, Peter and Valentine, were not qualified to go to battle school. Peter is too vicious and Valentine is too compassionate. The government lets the Wiggin’s have a third child hoping that the third will be a mixture of both Peter and Valentine. Ender qualifies to go to battle school and leaves Earth to go into military training to fight the enemies, the buggers. Throughout the book Ender gets physically and mentally bullied. While Ender is gone, Peter comes up with the idea to dominate the world. When Ender finally went back home, he realized that battle school was not a game. It was a reality. He actually killed people, destroyed ships and a world. Ender was relieved to be home. Valentine goes with Ender into space and Peter ends up in charge and he eventually dominates the world. Ender wins the third invasion, and then helps the buggers find a new home. The novel, Ender’s Game integrates with American history because it shows the presence of bullying in the schoolyard, the workplace, and even in gove...
My mom didn’t abandon me and my brother didn’t die in my arms but she was bullied by kids at school. I think this is one connection that almost any person would be able to make. Liesel is criticized for her inability to read by a boy named Ludwig Schmeikl who says: “I’m having trouble with this word. Could you read it for me? You Dummkopf-you idiot” (Zusak 79). I myself have been bullied in the past, be it jokingly or for real, it isn’t very enjoyable. This is one topic that has a huge impact on me and it upsets me that I see or encounter bullying every
Jamie Nabozny is gay. Today the fact causes him few, if any, difficulties in life, however, throughout middle and high school Nabozny was both physically and verbally harassed; he was beaten, kicked, urinated on, called hurtful terms and abused to the point of hospitalization. However, the worst part of this innocent victim’s abuse was the role that his administration played, or rather refused to play; no action was taken to protect Nabozny despite the fact that school officials knew what was going on and had been repeatedly confronted about his abuse. In time the abuse Nabozny suffered led to doleful moods, severe depression, attempts of suicide, endeavors to run away from home, and other drastic consequences. Eventually, this young vigilante decided to fight back in order to prevent others from experiencing what he had gone through. Nabozny took legal action and, with the help of Lambda Legal Law firm, sued his former school officials for their failure to do their job of keeping him safe in school, eventually winning nearly a million dollars in a monetary settlement. Jamie Nabozny’s case has inspired the response of countless others and forced schools to take responsibility for their actions in bullying cases, because of this role model’s singular determination and readiness to stand up for himself, he has affected and inspired millions. Proving, once and for all, that one person can make a difference.
There are many forms of cruelty. One form that many can relate to is bullying. Whether having been bullied or been the one bullying others, those cruel memories can forever be imprinted on one’s heart. In “White Lies,” Erin Murphy, expresses that although bullying is wrong, trying to justify bad deeds for good is equally cruel. Using rhetorical and tonal elements, Murphy stirs emotions with pathos, “perhapsing” with logos, and vivid images with diction.
In the case of Joel Rifkin, he was raised in a loving family but was the victim of bullying in school. Despite the encouragement of other,
Bart Rangely is a 13-year-old boy who attends Baileywell Preparatory Academy in his eighth grade year. I believe that Bart is not so physically appealing because he is jealous of the students' good looks. I can assume that Bart is a sensitive and understanding person based on his time with Nola. Tyro is a thin, tall, and blond boy in his junior year who is assigned as Bart's "Big Brother." He instead bullies Bart. Tyro has demonstrated that he is aggressive, abusive, and cruel because of his actions towards Bart. Nola is a 10-year-old girl who has spent most of her time in the Intensive Care Unit because of a disease she has. Nola has yellowish skin because of her disease and clear blue eyes. Nola is a clever, spirited, and unique girl who can understand how other people feel.
The documentary film Bully (2011) – directed by Lee Hirsh – takes the viewer into the lives of five families that live in various, predominantly remote, towns across the United States. All families presented have been affected by bullying, either because their child was at the time being bullied by peers at school or the child committed suicide due to continuous bullying. The film also profiles an assistant principle, Kim Lockwood, whose indiscreetness makes the viewer...
On any given school day, 30% of American teenagers are classified as perpetrators, sufferers, or bystanders of bullying, and 3.2 million kids are on the receiving end of bullying each year (Greenya). Some kids today wake up early during the school week anticipating another day of school. To them, it’s like a home away from home that provides a safe environment to learn, interact with peers, grow up, develop a sense of self, and make impressions of how they want to be perceived in the world. Of course, there are also occasional moments of complete anxiety: a week of final exams, a nerve-wracking class presentation, or doing well in a composition class. However, for the other kids, anxiety is an everyday problem. For them, the weekend can’t arrive fast enough, and normal weekday mornings are instead filled with feelings of nausea, gloom, and dread. Some may even have thoughts of ending their life. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people’s lives are affected by this brutal form of abuse. In fact, there is an estimated “160,000 children who skip school every day to avoid bullying” (Greenya). What was once regarded as the typical raucous behaviors of childhood, bullying today is a national school occurrence that has grabbed the attention of parents, teachers, administrators, police, and even state and federal legislators. Bullying has become a serious and widespread problem.
Over 67% of students believe that schools respond poorly to bullying, with a high percentage of students believing that adult help is infrequent and ineffective. Through the book the obvious theme to me is bullying. The author of this book Chris Crutcher is a very talented author. He has many books that are very good but has only earned one award. “Whale talk” has a main theme about bullying and it shows it through many characters and the mental and physical effect it has on people.
There are many different examples demonstrating that the bullying experiences of the author are the main idea of the book. From 5th-12th grade she was tormented by her classmates. But her family and the friends she made along the way helped her get through and and overall she says it made her a better person. She overcame what happened her and let it change her in a positive way. She now works to prevent what happened to her from happening to anyone else. What could you do to prevent it? In conclusion, the main idea of this book is that bullying was a common occurrence in the life of Jodee Blanco but now the most common occurrence in her life is success.
Goldman, Carrie, and Dorothy Espelage, Ph.D. Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher and Kid Need To Know About Ending The Cycle Of Fear. First Edition. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. 140-141. Print.
A major effect of bullying is the way it can change the victim 's personality. It may cause someone who is regularly self-sufficient and full of joy to become anxious, and hesitant. Consequently, victims may even become depressed or suicidal. Their self-sufficientness could possibly flee, keeping them from experiencing
On the afternoon of April 9, 2010 I found myself in a meeting with Kerri Evans, the assistant principal of Pleasant Ridge Middle School, and my son Nicholas. I was there because my son had become a victim of verbal abuse. It was shocking to learn that bullying has become such an epidemic in our school system. “Nearly 1 in 3 students is involved in bullying” (Hertzog, 2010). In a perfect world there would be no bullying. Kids wouldn’t get shoved into lockers, and they wouldn’t be beat up in the hallway. Students wouldn’t talk about another student behind their back because of their shape, size, race, or religion. In a perfect world this wouldn’t happen, but at that moment in our imperfect world it was happening to my son. The question is, why does it happen and what can we do to stop it? “According to a 2009 federal survey of school crime and safety, 32 percent of middle and high school students said they'd been victimized during the academic year, compared with 14 percent in 2001” (Tyre, 2010). Bullying was making its way into my home and affecting my life. It was then that I realized that bullying was a problem that needed to stop. Bullying in schools is escalating and becoming a bigger and bigger issue, and we must take action to eliminate it.
Bullying is something that is not something new and is actually something that society continues to face. Over the years, bullying has been looked at as being so ordinary in schools that it is continuously overlooked as an emanate threat to students and has been lowered to a belief that bullying is a part of the developmental stage that most young children will experience then overcome (Allebeck, 2005, p. 129). Not everyone gets over the extreme hurt that can come as an effect from bullying, for both the bully and the victim. Because of this, we now see bullying affecting places such as the workplace, social events and even the home. The issue of bullying is not only experienced in schools, but the school environment is one of the best places