Bullying In Schools

Textual Analysis “How To Stop Bullying In Classrooms And Schools” by Phyllis Kaufman Goodstein is an informative book that provides insight to bullying, how to stop it, and how to help children who have been affected by it. Bullying is defined as “using superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants.” As everything does, bullying comes with underlying reasons and solutions. The authors’ serious tone and diction makes it easy to stay focused on the real problem, and not veer off topic. Logos, pathos, ethos, and kairos are main literary devices authors use to keep a reader interested. Goodstein uses many logos such as statistics for a logical appearance. Ethos are used by using many citations to verify Goodsteins’ credibility. She also uses pathos within the statistics to pull out emotions from the reader. By using so many statistics and citations Goodstein makes it easier for the reader to use their imagery to create an unhappy and undesirable image of a bullied child. …show more content…
Chapter 3 and 11 are the main chapters I focused on. Within chapter 3, The Facts, each fact is backed up with statistics and citations. Many people are unaware of the real facts and should be informed of them. Where do you think the majority of bullying occurs? Playgrounds, homes, crowded places, or schools? If you said schools, you are correct; the majority of bullying occurs in educational institutions. (Nansel, Overpeck, Haynie, Ruan, & Scheidt, 2003; Williams, Chambers, Logan, & Robinson, 1996). Places such as locker rooms, bathrooms, and parking lots are high-risk bullying zones. “Bullying occurs twice per hour in the classroom and every seven minutes on the school playground (Atlas & Pepler, 1998; Craig & Pepler, 1997). Once a routine is established this abuse can continue for