Please Stop Laughing at Me by Jodee Blanco

Make a beginning This social issue has inspired many notable works in various forms such as literature, film and song. This includes the novel Please stop laughing at me by Jodee Blanco, the film Bully written and directed by Lee Hirsch, and in the form of lyrics from artists such as Jessie J, Lady Gaga and Eminem. The novel, Please Stop Laughing at Me by Jodee Blanco, is a memoir based on the bullying that went on throughout her years being school. (Take about the beginning- reunion) It all began when Jodee was in grade 5 and had offered to volunteer with the special needs students in her school. Jodee began to hang out with one of these students after school and Jodee’s friends told her that if she continues to hang out with the “retards”, they could no longer be friends. As she continued on to middle school she had met new people, which meant she had the opportunity to have a fresh start. She had been in “the popular crowd”, until her friend Callie had a party. During Callie’s party, Jodee felt uncomfortable around her friends because they were doing sexual things that she decided to call her mom, everyone at the party got in trouble. After Callie’s party, those students who were once her friends became bullies and started to harass her. They had harassed her so much that she had decided to move schools. When Jodee moved into her new neighbourhood, she mad a ton of friends that summer. But when she stood up for something that she thought was right, the bullying began again. Jodee was verbally, emotionally and physically harassed by almost everyone. While she was going through a phase of depression, she gained a friend who was once bullied by those who were bullying her and friends that she made when she went to Greece as a get ...

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...or’s storage booth

Kicked the door hinge loose and ripped out the four inch screws

Grabbed some sharp objects, brooms, and foreign tools

“This is for every time you took my orange juice, or stole my seat in the lunchroom and drank my chocolate milk.

Every time you tipped my tray and it dropped and spilt.

I’m gettin you back bully! Now once and for good.”

I cockd the broomstick back and swung hard as I could and beat him over the head with it till it broke the wood

Knocked him down, stood on his chest with one foot…

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Unlike those previously mentioned, Eminem took a different approach which was to become the bully. This is Eminem’s downfall because he let the actions bullies would do to him turn him into to them. Rather than being a better person and telling an adult, he took a different approach a got pay back by attacking the bully. MORE. CONCLUSION SENTENCE.