Is Bullying Really Necessary?

       We watched a video in class it was called; Bullied: A Student, a School, and a Case that Made History. Just like the title says, it was all about bullying. I thought it was extremely sad and heartbreaking. Especially at the very beginning of the video. Where they had showed a little boy in a football uniform, probably 11 years old. They had said that, he had hung himself. All becuase he was a homosexual, the people around him and so-called friends called him names and teased him. He just couldn't take it anymore, it just hurts to hear about little kids committing suicide. That kind of stuff shouldn't happen, they have there whole life ahead of them.
     http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-39-spring-2011/bully-bullied-bystanderand-beyond

       The article I read was really good. It was titled; Bully, Bullied, Bystander...and Beyond. The first few sentences of the article were really sad, it said, "A 14-year-old hangs herself. a 19-year-old jumps off a bridge. A 13-year-old shoots himself. Another loads his backpack with stones and leaps into a river. Still another swallows her father’s prescription meds to get rid of the pain and humiliation. A 17-year-old is found hanging outside her bedroom window. Two more 11-year-old boys kill themselves within 10 days of each other." All those innocent children, all for what? Bullying. They feel they have no one to turn to, no way to tell others. So they turn the violence inward with a tragic and final exit. The article talks about the bystanders and how they are also guilty as the bully. If you just watch or even try to encourage the bully. You are part of bullying the victim.

 

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The quote I used was "Miller men were disciplined, Miller men followed rules. Miller men toughed it out; they ate dirt & went for the kill" On page 21 in Twisted. I picked this quote because I thought it showed the goals for the Miller men and Tyler. What Miller men should live up to and expect to do and be. But Tyler wasnt exactly following that. But he was disciplined for what he had done, he did tough it out to get it over with. Tyler wasn't really a positive person but as the story progressed  he began to change.

The other quote I used was "People had ignored me when I was Nerd Boy but that changed after I got arrested." That was on the very very first page. I picked the arrow as the image because I thought it symbolized as moving on with life. People looked the other way at Tyler before he got arrested. But when he got arrested, there were still people that ignored him, but most came to him. Some thought that it was cool for what he did, graffiti on the school and getting arresting and all. There were a lot of different feelings toward Tyler.