Pulling Someone down Will Never Help You Reach the Top Members of the society take part in it and yet everyone chooses to neglect the subject. The schools that claim a supposed “bully free zone,” are the ones that tend to do the least to prevent bullying. Adults are frequently unaware of bullying; consistently the victim’s own parents are generally oblivious to anything going on. Canadian spoken word poet Shane Koyczan provides a perfect description of a toxic school environment brimming with bullies in a short video-poem titled To This Day. Koyczan delivers, “seems like every school has an arsenal of names getting updated every year and if a kid breaks in a school and no one around chooses to hear, do they make a sound?” This is the point
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Published 42 years ago, “Blubber” provides an ever relevant take on bullying. Blume writes the novel from the perspective of fifth-grade student and bully, Jill Brenner. The writing of the novel was inspired by Blume’s own daughter and her experiences in the classroom. In this story, the reader meets Linda; an awkward and overweight girl in Jill’s fifth-grade class who unfortunately gets dominated by the other students. While Linda read her report on whales the other students gave her a new name, Blubber. This novel begins with Blume creating the picture of a negligent teacher who seems not to care about what her students are doing. While Linda is giving her report, the other students are passing around notes and gossiping about her all the while Mrs. Minish does nothing to control the students. Jill observes this and even thinks: “Did Mrs. Minish notice anything that was going on” (2)? Mrs. Minish gives each student the same mundane comment after their report “well… that was a very nice report” (8). Acts like these show Mrs. Minish as an insensitive adult, and she is just one of the many this is introduced throughout the …show more content…
Altogether, the students mock Linda at every chance they possibly can. People believe that if they intervene to stop bullying that the bully will turn on them. A scenario like that happens in the novel when Jill finally stands up to Wendy. On Halloween night Jill and Tracy threw rotten eggs in a neighbour’s mailbox and they believed that Linda was the one who told on them so a trial was called. When Jill agreed that Linda deserved a lawyer it triggered a turn of events against her favour. On the next day of school, Jill was the new victim and, surprisingly, Linda and Wendy had become best
Published 42 years ago, “Blubber” provides an ever relevant take on bullying. Blume writes the novel from the perspective of fifth-grade student and bully, Jill Brenner. The writing of the novel was inspired by Blume’s own daughter and her experiences in the classroom. In this story, the reader meets Linda; an awkward and overweight girl in Jill’s fifth-grade class who unfortunately gets dominated by the other students. While Linda read her report on whales the other students gave her a new name, Blubber. This novel begins with Blume creating the picture of a negligent teacher who seems not to care about what her students are doing. While Linda is giving her report, the other students are passing around notes and gossiping about her all the while Mrs. Minish does nothing to control the students. Jill observes this and even thinks: “Did Mrs. Minish notice anything that was going on” (2)? Mrs. Minish gives each student the same mundane comment after their report “well… that was a very nice report” (8). Acts like these show Mrs. Minish as an insensitive adult, and she is just one of the many this is introduced throughout the …show more content…
Altogether, the students mock Linda at every chance they possibly can. People believe that if they intervene to stop bullying that the bully will turn on them. A scenario like that happens in the novel when Jill finally stands up to Wendy. On Halloween night Jill and Tracy threw rotten eggs in a neighbour’s mailbox and they believed that Linda was the one who told on them so a trial was called. When Jill agreed that Linda deserved a lawyer it triggered a turn of events against her favour. On the next day of school, Jill was the new victim and, surprisingly, Linda and Wendy had become best