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• Answer the questions in complete sentences and use proper English (restrain from using MSN chat style of writing).
• Use evidence from the novel to support your answer and include page numbers.
• When commenting to your peers, be respectful in your language and about their responses. It is okay to disagree, but do it in a polite manner.
When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the KidNet, he includes the following quote in his letter.
"I think people ought to realize that stuff like this goes on every day…The rest of you are all part of it-because you let it go on and maybe you think it's funny, or you think it only happens to geeky outsiders and kids who are smaller or fatter or skinnier or don't have so many friends or so much money as you. So tell me-what happens when you don't have so many friends one day, or you don't have so much money, or something bad happens to you?" (91-92)
Blog Question:
What is the message is he trying to get across to his classmates?
Answer: I think Elliot was trying to tell everyone that everyone should be aware of bullying. He's saying that bullying could even happen to YOU. Also, not all the people who gets bullied are the 'weird'. Some of them are the 'normal'. Bullying isn't something to laugh at or promote. It's something to know to fix and prevent. Mainly, Elliot is talking to the bystanders in this letter. He's trying to tell the bystanders that they are the most powerful ones, they have duties to stop bullying. Actually, bystanders take about 85% of all the children. But I know that some bystanders are scared that they might get bullied. Elliot's telling those bystander to have courage and stop bullying or at least know about it.
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2 comments:
i like how you gave the specific examples about the letter and bullying. Like when you said about the letter that not all people who gets bullied are 'weird'. And that you said bystanders are the most powerful ones since they have the rights to tell the teacher.
I agree with you when you say that he is mainly talking to the bystander and the part when you said that bystanders are afraid to tell on the bully. But, I don't agree with you when you say that he trying to tell the bystanders to have courage. But, good response.
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