Bullyville Analysis

Bullyville by Francine Prose Let’s say your father left you and your mother to be with another woman 6 months before one of the most depressing events in American history. 9/11. You have a lot on your mind to tell him, but you never got to, because on 9/11 your father died. This is the life of the 13-year-old main character, Bart Rangely, had to breathe after September 11, 2001. Now his soul was put to the ultimate test when enrolling into a suburb private school that was meant to help map out his future, but it nearly destroyed it. Loneliness sums up Bart’s first day, and every day of his new school All Boys school Bailywell Prep Academy. Bart felt like he was on pause, and no would help press the resume button. “But now I just felt like a big rock stuck in the middle of school while everything flowed around me. (Chapter 4 Paragraph 90)” People wouldn’t even bother to help move Bart’s rock, and the person who was supposed to be leading him around the school was the main conflict, he was a bully, he was, Tyro Bergen. "Last year he was supposed to be this new kid's Big Brother, and he tortured him so bad that the kid had a total nervous breakdown and dropped out of school before the end of the first term. (Chapter 4 Paragraph 147)" Bart wouldn’t just receive a dose of loneliness he was in for a lot of pain. …show more content…
It seemed like Tyro had no emotions or even comprehension of what the word “emotion” meant. “I was just about to hang up when I heard a voice—it was Tyro's voice, he didn't even try to disguise it—say, ‘How much would you like to die, Fart?’ (Chapter 5 Paragraph 29)” That was just the start of it. Those words shook Bart because he took Tyro seriously. When there wasn’t a single soul in the hallways of Bailywell and Bart was by his locker, Tyro had a group of two jump Bart from behind, hitting him in the back and then stuffing him in Bart’s own