The short story “The Fan Club” by Rona Maynard is about an average high school student, Laura, who encounters bullying. Laura believed she was being made fun of by Diane Goddard and her friends and became very uncomfortable, because Diane’s clique always giggled and gossiped all the time around her. Laura’s friend, Rachel Horton was looked down upon, because people thought she looked poor and dirty, so she was unpopular. Because Rachel was not dressed as nicely and was not as popular, she became subject to bullying. One day, one of Laura’s classes consisted of her classmates giving speeches about a topic that they researched. After Rachel’s presentation, the whole class erupted into laughter, and mock applause, except for Laura. Laura, being …show more content…
Many students said bad things about Rachel, especially people in Diane’s friend circle. For example, Diane’s love interest, Steve, said, “‘Man, that kid’s dumb,’” The author later goes on to say that his voice could be heard across the whole room, which means that Steve purposely said what he said in a way that everybody could hear him jibing at Rachel. Another example of students scoffing at Rachel was when students were joking about where she got her things from. “‘Bet she got it at Woolworth’s,’ somebody whispered. ‘Or in a trash dump.’ That was Diane.” This proves that many students looked down on Rachel because of her appearance and financial state. Finally, the biggest and worst moment of the bullying, “Choked giggles, shuffling feet—and then applause—wild, sarcastic, malicious applause” shows that the majority of students in the class participated in the derision of their classmate. However, this is not the only scene where bullying pressures others into doing the same, as it can also be seen when the bullies encourage Laura to take part in the …show more content…
One instance of this was when one student pointed out Rachel’s outfit. “It was Ellen. ‘Hey, how’s that for a smart outfit?’ She pointed to the other side of the hall.” This shows an instance where Ellen tries to open up an opportunity for Laura to make fun of Rachel. Later on, after Diane cooked up a show of embarrassing Rachel, nearly everyone joined in the jeering. Seeing that most people were doing what Diane wanted them to do, Diane found an opportunity to drag Laura into the mockery. She made her way to Laura and “Diane was nudging her and holding out a card. ‘Hey, Laura, here’s one for you to wear.’” This shows that Diane was trying to drag Laura into the bullying. Like Ellen, Diane also tries to tempt Laura into joining in on the bullying of Rachel, when she said, “‘She’s a creep, isn’t she?’ Diane’s voice was soft and intimate.” This also shows that Diana was using a kind voice to sweet-talk to Laura to entice her into bullying Rachel. She was offering Laura a beautiful, tempting, but poisonous apple. Laura would eventually bite into the poisonous apple, because in addition to the scene where the bullies tempt Laura to take part in bullying Rachel, the theme of bullying pressuring people is also seen when Laura pinned the card and started clapping along with the
Kristy says, “It’s rotten, but I mean, you’re not a freak or something.” Claudia says, “We’re here for you Stacey”. These are both great examples of friendship because the girls know that Stacey is sensitive about this, and they tell her that they support here and that she is their friend no matter
“One out of every five students report being bullied’’. This fact from the National bullying prevention center shows that a lot of kids are being bullied. In Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl faces three types of bullying but one event has a major impact on Stargirl and through these events, we are shown Spinelli's opinions and ideas on bullies. Emotional bullying is shown throughout Stargirl as she gets bullied by her classmates and school members. After the basketball team loses, the whole school blames the loss on Stargirl.
This only adds onto the fear of being disregarded. These fears become a reality when Melinda tells her ex-best friend, Rachel what happened. Rachel says “I can’t believe you. You’re jealous. You’re a twisted little freak” (Anderson 184).
(Grealy 10). The parents not stopping their children indicates how ignorant some parents and individuals can be in society today, which can result in lack of confidence for people who are bullied. Bullying is an important issue seen in our world today and the main cause of low self-esteem in our society. Lucy’s reaction at the pony party indicate low self-esteem. Although she got hurt, she could not react but rather she felt, she does not belong to the world which causes her to feel frighten of jumping ahead first into social situation that yield unique life experience.
This is evident when a new girl that came to Merryweather High School, named Heather. In the beginning, Heather followed Melinda around everywhere. Then Heather turned on Melinda because she did not think Melinda was not cool and popular. Melinda says, “Heather, you mean we're not friends
In the beginning of the book, the main character, Mimi, voices to her class about being an astronaut, only to get ridiculed. Though most of her teachers and peers laughed at her, one teacher, Mrs. Stanton, did not. Mrs. Stanton actually relates to Mimi because she too, had a dream to become a scientist. When Mrs. Stanton’s parents turned her down instead of fighting for her dream, she decided to find a husband and settle down as a teacher. When Mimi asks why Mrs. Stanton doesn’t laugh, she responds with “ Why would I laugh?
It is a vicious cycle that she can’t, or doesn’t want to end. This panel gives us insight into Laura Dean’s thoughts and personality. With these few words, we can see that she is vain, self-centered, and doesn’t think of others. Even if this was supposed to be said in a joking manner it is still a problem and this situation could have been avoided if the main character saw these signs. Of course, this doesn’t take the blame off Laura Dean, she still shouldn’t act that way towards their girlfriend, or at least they could have talked about it.
She advised Jamie to pursue the school district, which was completely incompetent with Jamie’s bullying problem. This show of resilience is very impressive. Jamie didn’t run away, ignore, or give up. He was knocked down, stood up, knocked down,and stood up again. He represented all the students who are tormented everyday at school, and he fought back.
She shows her low self-esteem referring to her leg when she tells Jim, “To me it sounded like-thunder!” (The Glass Menagerie 1.7.35-36). Not only does she have low self-esteem, but her self-esteem is so low that she could not handle finishing Business School as she drops out. Through Laura’s small lies to Amanda, her mother, Amanda finds out and explains while quoting Laura’s teacher, “ And she said, “….. The first time we gave a speed-test, she broke down completely- was sick at the stomach and almost had to be carried into the wash-room!...”.”
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.
Andy is angry and confused at Stephan’s way of life because Stephan is different than him. With this, Andy decides to tease and antagonize Stephan by making fun of his name, shoving him, and disrespecting his sexuality. Soon after the encounter with Stephan and Andy in the pizza place, Andy indecisively stole Stephan’s hard earned pizza and he “smashed the steamy pizza” against Stephans petrified face (Greene 67). The theme of extreme bullying is portrayed because Stephan was being physically and verbally attacked by Andy and his posey. Stephan didn’t aggravate Andy or ask for him to steal his pizza, Andy just felt the need to give him a hard time to be disrespectful.
This essay will discuss who Danielle is bullied by, how it affects her, and what can be done to stop it. First, she is tormented and mocked by her classmates, including William. "WILLIAM: What's with this stupid picture anyway?" says the text. It’s just pencil-crayon on a wall.
In the novel Shattering Glass by Gail Giles, bullying is very evident among the characters. One
Everytime Tiffany or Sharon told on the rest of the class they got bullied even more and they realized it so they just accepted the bullying. Which mentally would put you in the place of accepting that you are not as good as the
Myracle also targets the theme of blinding oneself from bad things towards the victims of bullying. In the text, Cat tells the