How It Feels To Be Colored Me Essay

Being ‘educated’ can decrease one’s desire to bully. This can be done in many ways, different places, and different times. For example, in the article, “How it feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston, in the year 1928 Zora is being discriminated by her color and appearance. To this, her education in proper manners isn’t correct which results her being criticised.The author writes “...old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be” (Hurston). This means that instead of Zora being the same as everyone that discriminates her, she instead says she would want anyone to be in her shoes. Another example would be the story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, Margot gets bullied around by her classmates just because she is from planet Earth and they don’t believe that she has seen the sun. The author publishes “They could not meet each other’s glances” (Bradbury). This means that after the classmates bullied Margot and locked her in closet, they were full of guilt after they found out that Margot was right all this time when she talked to them about the sun. Adding on after releasing Margot, I think that she would of just came out and then her classmates would

This article is where an eleven year old boy gets bullied around but wasn’t sure what to do about it. The author then writes that “ This year, he is the star of a music video designed to teach respect through a catchy parody of a Katy Perry song” (Tribune). This mean that the eleven year old after going through bullying he decide not to do it back but to create song where kids learned how to respect one another. As a result, being ‘educated’ in any type of way, decreases one’s desire to bully since the more you know or experience in a bad way the less you want it to happen to another