Every year around 246 million children are bullied in some form or another (Villapando). In The Chocolate War written by Robert Cormier, Jerry refuses to sell chocolate during his school’s annual fundraiser. One simple word, no, leads to horrible repercussions. Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare, tells the story of forbidden love between two feuding families’ children. Their love and death have a lasting impact on both families. Both works contain many instances of bullying, raging from verbal to physical. Today bullying has evolved to include cyberbullying. Although centuries have passed in between The Chocolate War, Romeo and Juliet, and today, verbal, physical, and emotional bullying are still prevalent today. Although bullying
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One student is singled out by Brother Leon and accused of cheating, “Bailey… why do you find it necessary to cheat?... You're a cheat Bailey. And a liar.” Brother Leon then turns to the other students and says, “You sat there and enjoyed yourselves… allowed me to proceed” (Cormier 40). Bailey was accused of cheating in front of his whole class. To finish selling the chocolates that Jerry refused to sell it is decided that a raffle fight will be held between Jerry and the school bully, Janza. Before the fight started Carter explained the rules, “... and the kid whose written blow is the one that ends the fight, either by knockout or surrender, wins the prize…” (Cormier 199). During the fight an illegal blow to the groin is called and Jerry deflects it. The crowd reacts, “ The crowd didn't understand what had happened. Most of them hadn’t heard the illegal instruction. They only saw that Jerry had tried to defend himself, and that was against the rules. ‘Kill ‘im, Janza,’ a voice cried from the crowd” (Cormier 203). The fight had rules, which were broken, and it led to an unregulated fight and the crowd yelling for Janza to kill Jerry. Verbal and physical bullying are still a problem now as they were when The Chocolate War was written in
One student is singled out by Brother Leon and accused of cheating, “Bailey… why do you find it necessary to cheat?... You're a cheat Bailey. And a liar.” Brother Leon then turns to the other students and says, “You sat there and enjoyed yourselves… allowed me to proceed” (Cormier 40). Bailey was accused of cheating in front of his whole class. To finish selling the chocolates that Jerry refused to sell it is decided that a raffle fight will be held between Jerry and the school bully, Janza. Before the fight started Carter explained the rules, “... and the kid whose written blow is the one that ends the fight, either by knockout or surrender, wins the prize…” (Cormier 199). During the fight an illegal blow to the groin is called and Jerry deflects it. The crowd reacts, “ The crowd didn't understand what had happened. Most of them hadn’t heard the illegal instruction. They only saw that Jerry had tried to defend himself, and that was against the rules. ‘Kill ‘im, Janza,’ a voice cried from the crowd” (Cormier 203). The fight had rules, which were broken, and it led to an unregulated fight and the crowd yelling for Janza to kill Jerry. Verbal and physical bullying are still a problem now as they were when The Chocolate War was written in