Letters To A Cyberbullied Girl

In addition cyberbullying can be very extreme and dangerous to the victim. There have been many cases where the victim of the cyberbullying cases almost or ended their life. Based off of research there are many cases of suicide, “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people with approximately 4,400 deaths every year,”(Top). The number is increasing for the younger audience and researchers assume that school life and cyberbullying might be the case. According to CDC, an organization that prevents and investigates death, explains, “More than 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide and nearly 7 percent have attempted it, that is why you will, …show more content…
The reason why most cases go unnoticed is because the teen or victim does not know to ask or report the need for help. Most of the times teens believe that they are the only ones that are going through what is happening to them so it is very important to inform that there are others just like them. The book, Letters to a Bullied Girl is about a girl who was being cyberbullied by her piers at school and she thought that she was the only one. Bystanders came up with a idea and created an organization that sent letters to her from other victims that had similar experiences, “ I know that you must feel like it’s not worth it to go on with your everyday life because it can be not so good or even horrible, but I just want you to understand that someday you will find someone to change your perspective on life…,” (Coloroso 98). The book was to try to make the young teen and the readers of the book understand that they can get over the terrible experience by telling a parent or protecting oneself, “my parents helped me turn things around. They believed in me no matter what, and gave me the strength to pick up and keep going, no matter how many times I was knocked down,”(Coloroso