Summary Pages 1-39 Birgit Neilsen is a privileged girl from Grandview High. She finds herself in trouble when three girls in her art class choose to torment her and assault her. She vows revenge on the three girls and recruits 3 other students, Mickey who is a foster kid from Creekside who goes to Grandview, Peter who is in the eleventh grade, on the football team and also Birgit’s boyfriend, and Whisper, whose real name is Winston who is also on the football team. The four students agree that Grandview High has become too dangerous for the students and devise a plan to wipe the school of bullies forever. Connection In this novel we find out at Grandview high, the kids there are not safe from the bullying and the violence. Birgit Neilsen …show more content…
He lived with his three brothers and two sisters. He was home from school due to a broken collarbone, broken rib, black eyes, and a split lip. Earlier that week Joey was jumped in a school washroom because of the color of his skin. Joey had told Mickey that guys that jumped him didn’t steal his money or any of his belongings which was unusual, all they did was beat him and tell him to go back to Creekside which was where the more underprivileged kids lived. They knew it was a racial issue so they wanted to bring justice for Joey. The hit squads next target was the two best friends who had beaten Joey in the washroom at Grandview …show more content…
I think they will finally realize that getting revenge isn’t always the right answer. 2) I think an important idea and theme throughout this novel is bullying and getting retaliation. The kids decide to take matter into their own hands and soon enough everything goes terribly wrong. Heck who is Mickey’s close friend and also lives in the same house as him, ends up passing away due to the hit squads choices. Mickey feels as though it is his fault that Heck has died. A strong theme in the book is getting revenge isn’t always the answer and could have terrible consequences. 3) After reading this book I understand and realize that at times we can’t put ourselves on a bullies’ level. We need to be the bigger person, revenge and retaliation is never the solution. When someone hurts us it is not our job to hurt them back because that will make you just like that certain person. We also need to speak out more on bullying because it happens everywhere and every day and children are losing their lives due to
These on going topics will help us better understand themes and ideolgy in this book. Bullying is described in this book a lot. In fact, almost in every chapter we see people bullying each other. For example, in the first chapter a bully named Stilson antiganises Ender. Stilson says "Hey, Third,
In the article “A Year Later” the author Kevin Cullen uses diction and descriptive details to illustrate how he believes we need to take action against bullying. He does this by selecting specific words that cause the reader to feel different emotions, choosing strong words to allow the reader to have a better understanding, and using descriptive words that cause the reader to feel negative emotions towards bullying. An example of how the author uses diction to portray his perspective on the matter can be found where Cullen described Phoebe being “hounded to the grave” by her classmates (Cullen 1). The author uses the word “hounded” to portray the fact that she was being forced to kill herself from the pressure that the constant bullying caused.
Introduction The book Were all Made of Molecules, by Susin Nielsen, was an amazing story about a boy named Stewart who moves in with his father girlfriend and her daughter. Stewarts always wanted a sister, but not one like Ashley. Ashley is a total drama queen and complains about everything, she doesn't like Stewart one bit, especially when she finds out that Stewart is going to start going to her school. While Stewart is making new friends at his new school, he is also making enemies.
So do you ever wonder what my favorite quote is from the story, “With a little help from my friends.” My favorite quote is, “They wanted to know about more important things, such as camels. How many did we own back home? What did we feed them? Was it a bumpy ride?”
What do you think of when someone says monster? To me, I think of big, hairy monsters that live under your bed. To Kristina, monster means meth, or crank. Kristina is a junior, innocent girl that moves in with her dad for the summer. Her parents have been divorced for some time.
Characters: Sarah: the victim Henry: the bully Sarah: ally Billy: Bystander Snodgrass: Guidance counselor Time: a school day, 2024 Setting: Alaska Gateway school, were many kids are mistreated and being bullied. It’s a well-rounded school but has some flaws with the techniques that they use to teach students respect. At rise: Henry, wearing his extravagant cloth and overpriced items, enters the class, squandering his money, followed by Sarah, wearing poor-quality clothes, but with a smile on her face. Which demolishes when she sees Henry.
Children can be formed by many things in there life. They can experience many different types of things when they are growing up. The experiences they will have while growing up will either be good ones or bad ones. Bullying can pay a big part in the way a child is formed. Readers can also see that Frankenstein is an example of how a person can be formed in a bad way.
The theme i choose was violence because there was a lot of fighting and in one part someone killed someone and it 's important to the story because it give it action. Violence is someone who fights or kills it occurs a lot because socs jump greasers it affected johnny and ponyboy. “Hold up!”a familiar voice yelled. “Hold it!”
In “How to Handle a Bully,” by Kathiann Kowalski, an experienced journalist, Kowalski reports the different strategies to stop bullying. She informs that bullying is at its peak in the late teenage years, but can start in an early age. Kowalski concurs that girls intimidates as much as boys; however, they do it differently. She explores many reasons why bullying occurs at the first place, and who starts bullying. Kowalski exemplifies the situations that victims could be in, and the solution on how to handle the bully.
The nonfiction novel The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls portrays a powerful story of a little girl named Jean and her three other siblings who struggle growing up and the way they grow to take care of themselves and each other. Throughout the entire novel’s plotline, shown through each character and the setting, the author portrays three big themes. These three themes include; forgiveness, lost dreams, and that sometimes children can be more mature than parents. This book was overall very intriguing and a wonderful book to read. I strongly recommend reading this book to anybody who is interested in a captivating novel of a family’s hardships that captures your interest with every single chapter.
There are several themes in the book, each one has a significant meaning to the storyline. The first symbol that describes the theme of abuse of power is government control. The reason that they hold the Hunger Games is because it is a dystopian society and most of the districts are poor and the capitol likes it because it keeps them entertained just because they believe that they are superior to everyone else who lives outside the capitol. To explain this more into detail, the government controls all the districts and all the districts have to follow the rules or else there is a serious punishment.
The book I have chosen to review is Boy 21, a fictional read that is written by Matthew Quick. Quick is a New York Times best-selling author debuting in novels such as The Silver Linings Playbook and Love May Fail. To best describe this book, it is a captivating read that is comforting for the mind, as it canvasses the raw and unflinching life of a high school senior who displays love for basketball and life relationships. Furthermore, set in a troubled Belmont city of Philadelphia, Quick incorporates the presence of mobs and violence which is captivating towards the reader and audience. I was intrigued about how the novel was written through Finley the main protagonist, which was Quick’s childhood perspective of life in Philadelphia and his passion towards basketball.
This letter is meant to convince you to introduce Kate McCaffrey’s novel ‘Destroying Avalon’, a book about cyber-bullying and prejudice, into the Australian English Curriculum for year 10 students. I believe that this novel is beneficial to year 10 students as the characters are mostly year 10s, the graphic, colloquial language and the realistic struggles of high school students would connect the readers to the morals and messages of this novel. I believe that some of the most important themes explored by McCaffrey in this novel are ambition and jealousy. A year 10 reader would connect and relate to these themes by the fact that every character’s, in every social group, actions is based off of these attributes.
There are many ways to stop bullying for good with a little help from everyone we can make it possible. Alex a kid that was in Bully a movie that tells more in depth about bullying had a hard time growing up being bullied. He is one of many who suffer or have suffered from bullying. Kids are bullied for many things now in modern times. They are even picked on for what their siblings look like, for example Alex’s sister was for what her brother looked like.
Phoebe Prince: Should School Bullying Be a Crime? The author’s purpose of writing this article is to inform the readers about students should not bully to anyone so they won’t get bullied, and how bullying in school affects to the students especially to a weak person. The author includes details throughout the article to help not only students but any kids and parents better understand why bullying is happening, and ways to prevent from bullying and it must stop, so no one can hurt on any individual. For example, the author discusses how Phoebe’s Prince story turn out to be so cruel.