The Bully By Roger Dean Kiser Essay

Forgive and Forget. It may not change the past but it gives the future a chance. The Bully, written by Roger Dean Kiser, is a short story about a victim of bullying, later running into his old bully and seeing him in a wheelchair. The bully at one point asks him if this is how he felt. The bully feels awful and only want’s the victim forgiveness which the victim gives him. The victim then helps the bully into his car and exchanges number to keep in contact hoping to become friends. One, in particular, Roger Kiser showed traits in which affected the story. He was nostalgic, forgivable, and judgmental. Forgivable- able to be forgiven or tolerated; excusable. Roger showed this character trait by saying, “You remember me. Don’t you?” he said looking into my eyes. “I remember, Tony,” I said. “I guess you’re thinking ‘What goes around comes around’ he said, softly. “I would never think like that Tony, “I said, with a stern look on my face. If Roger wouldn’t have forgiven Tony about what happened between the two of them in the past, he wouldn’t have a new friend at the end of the story. It

“The bully of my seventh-grade geography class,” I thought. How many times had that sorry guy made fun of my big ears in front of the girls in my class? How many times had this sorry son-of-a-gun laughed at me because I had No parents and had to live in an orphanage? How many times this big bully slammed me up against the lockers in the hallway just to make myself look like a big man to all the other students? Therefore, affecting the story, by presenting these ideas and making Tony seem like a mean person or a “bully”. However, it hurts Rogers personality, because it makes him seems as if he would not have changed and a terrible person, but he soon learns that you can’t judge the past because people can change, which happened to Tony in the