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School Of Hate Vs Atonement

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Have you ever sat down, and obsevered the people around? Well today I did. I went down to the park, sat and watched all the people there. Some where alone, some with there family, some seem happy, and some seem not the happiest. My point is to educate you that everything is not want it seem, and you never know what people are going through. In these two essays “School of Hate” and “Atonement”; Authors Sabrina Erdely and Dexter Filkins did an tremendous job on expressing the everyday problem our nation goes through on a daily basic. In “School of Hate“, Erdely pushes the issue of students getting bullied based on their sexuality, and also the issue of these students unfortually committing suidside .On the contrary, in ” Atonement” Filkins

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