A Learning For The Rest Of My Life Analysis

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A Learning for the Rest of My Life
Perhaps one of the most polemic topics in the world is the homosexuality and all of its issues involved between the societies’ agreement. As the racism power, or even stronger, the prejudice against gays has been a hard point to deal with because there is a lot of people with empty minds thinking that being a gay is a huge sin. A few years ago I have witnessed a crucial moment when some guys acted as idiots cussing a homosexual off and I realized how tough it seems to be to who suffers. I would like to retract here the whole situation and what I learnt dealing with that moment.
Because his style and way of life, everybody from the school liked to play with my friend. His name is Jackson and he is 20 years
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They were kind of making bullying with him because they began to talk out and loud to everybody: “Oh, look this guy dressing like a little girl”. Jackson tried to keep walking straight but when a big brunette guy, the strongest and ugliest one of them, threw a piece of paper wrapped on his ass he couldn’t do anything else that stop and start to cuss the idiot …show more content…
When the bad boys, maybe 6, heard that phrase they stood up and then I could realize how tall they were in relation to Jackson. That was the moment when I have felt as an obligation feeling to help Jackson because he was completely screwed. In this passage of the book: “A guy with a bright orange Mohawk, a big silver ring in his brow… he glared right at little Mary-Emma and shouted, Nigger!” (pg.151) was when Tassie felts the same thrill that I did. When I interfered in the discussion between all of them I remember that I didn’t say too much to those guys but I acted angrier than scared, as Tassie

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