Johnny Clay A Bully Story

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Imagine the terror you would feel if you got tied up, thrown in a dark shed and nobody cared to do anything about it. Johnny Clay was a bully as the story began. Which was displayed when after football practice he led some other football players to tie up and trap Radio in a shed. Where he remained, terrified until Coach Jones let him out. Johnny was very selfish and didn’t care about other or how he made them feel. To emphasize, later in the year after Radio settled he deceived Radio to go into the girl’s locker room. He just wanted a laugh and didn’t care about the ramification that could happen to Radio. On the other hand, Johnny displays remorse for the way he’s acted especially to Radio. Which is displayed when his father told him that

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