Analytical Essay
Don’t Call me Ishmael!
Are words actually causing this world to be cruel and suicidal or are actions more affective to hurt others. Could the words that are used, be stronger, up lifting, or down putting than action could do. Life could be like hell just because words that come out of other peer’s mouths can make a person’s life horrific. Words can make you feel like people need be living ghosts and not exist. Lives can be destroyed just by saying a single word.
The novel Don’t Call me Ishmael written by Michael Gerard Bauer is a story about a life of a fourteen-year-old, Ishmael Leseur that happens to have an illness (Ishmael Leseur’s Syndrome) which causes his disastrous, not no perfect life. He quotes “I’m the only recorded case of Ishmael Leseur’s Syndrome” (pg.3). Ishmael calls himself this ‘illness’ because he thinks that his name causes his life to be “a walking disaster” (pg.3). It is only just a few words that could hurt someone permanently and affect someone in just one second. …show more content…
Ishmael’s problems include a school bully called Barry Bagsley who delights in mashing his name making his life hell. This bully Barry Bagsley is one of Ishmaels big problems in his life, Barry makes fun of his name, and making fun of whatever Ishmael does that Barry needs to make fun of. Being a bully does not only have to physically beating up someone, there are different bullies like cyber bullying (bullying someone online), or making a large group of people to hate on someone because the bully does not like the
Don’t Call me Ishmael!
Are words actually causing this world to be cruel and suicidal or are actions more affective to hurt others. Could the words that are used, be stronger, up lifting, or down putting than action could do. Life could be like hell just because words that come out of other peer’s mouths can make a person’s life horrific. Words can make you feel like people need be living ghosts and not exist. Lives can be destroyed just by saying a single word.
The novel Don’t Call me Ishmael written by Michael Gerard Bauer is a story about a life of a fourteen-year-old, Ishmael Leseur that happens to have an illness (Ishmael Leseur’s Syndrome) which causes his disastrous, not no perfect life. He quotes “I’m the only recorded case of Ishmael Leseur’s Syndrome” (pg.3). Ishmael calls himself this ‘illness’ because he thinks that his name causes his life to be “a walking disaster” (pg.3). It is only just a few words that could hurt someone permanently and affect someone in just one second. …show more content…
Ishmael’s problems include a school bully called Barry Bagsley who delights in mashing his name making his life hell. This bully Barry Bagsley is one of Ishmaels big problems in his life, Barry makes fun of his name, and making fun of whatever Ishmael does that Barry needs to make fun of. Being a bully does not only have to physically beating up someone, there are different bullies like cyber bullying (bullying someone online), or making a large group of people to hate on someone because the bully does not like the