A Silent Voice Analysis

Visualize a young sixth-grade boy who’s a bit of a daredevil. From the manga A Silent Voice, this little boy and his friends do crazy things after school, like jumping off bridges into deep lakes. His main goal in life is to defeat the monster called boredom and he will go to any extent to do so. For this boy, everyday is pretty similar to one another. He goes to school like every other kid,then when he gets out he does his daredevil stuff with his friends. Although everything changes when a new girl arrives. All of his other classmates were very excited to meet a new face except for him. He didn’t really understand what all the fuss was about. When the new girl walked into the children waited excitedly for her to introduce herself, but she …show more content…
The girl’s name was Nishimaya and people in the class soon acknowledged how kind and thoughtful she is. Nishimaya never bothered anyone without a good reason and she always showed her manners. However, for some reason, Shoya, the young daredevil, didn’t like her. For some reason, he showed a strong hatred for her. In class when he found out she used a hearing aid, he screamed into her ear to see if she could hear it. Little by little he would do simple cruel things to mess with her for no apparent reason. Still, Nishimaya showed him nothing but kindness. The other children didn’t really pay Shoya’s behavior much attention until Nishimaya joined the choir. Naturally, she was terrible at singing because since she couldn’t hear she was deaf tone, so being on the right pitch was practically impossible. About a couple weeks later the choir had its first competition. They ended up losing and everyone blamed Nishimaya for it. This is when the whole class first started to bully Nishimaya. Now the children started to look for reasons why Nishimaya is ruining their …show more content…
Some ways they would bully her is by writing unkind things in her notebook or on extreme occasions they would rip out her hearing aids and break them. Shoya, of course, was the first to start damaging her property and everyone followed his lead. Shoya seemed to find pleasure in tripping Nishimaya, throwing water on her, writing negative things in her notebook, and physically and emotionally abusing her by pulling out her hair, throwing her notebook into the lake, and punching her. Day after day Nishimaya handle this abuse on her own and never acted cruelly toward her abusers. A few months passed of this behavior and Nishimiya’s mother pulled her out of the Elementary school for all the hearing aids that have been broken. Her mother complained to the school about the damaged property and the teacher asked the class who kept breaking her hearing aids. Disregarding the fact that whole class broke her hearing aids, the children decided to blame it all on Shoya. Now it seems that the table has completely turned on the young bully and everyone now was abusing him the way they did to