Rowing The Bus Analysis

“Rowing the Bus” by Paul Logan is about when Paul was a young boy in elementary school who got bullied, he was an easy target because he had no father, was smaller than others, and his mother couldn’t afford new clothes, so he wore hand-me-downs donated by local churches. The older kids made him sit in the isle of the bus with all the trash and nasty chewed up gum, it was called rowing the bus the other kids would make you simulate the motion of rowing while they all laughed and shouted “row, row, row the bus”. One day Paul’s mother decides they were moving, Paul was so excited to start a new school where no one knew him, so he could make himself a new reputation. Right away at Paul’s new school he learned there was this boy named Gregg who was like he was at his old school, all the older kids picked on Gregg like Paul once was. At lunch one day …show more content…
I don’t even like him” the bully then through him on the ground and made his way to Gregg who was sitting alone by the sea-saw, Paul laid there and watched Chris punch Gregg in the face breaking his nose. Chris was kicked out of school and Gregg eventually moved but before he did him and Paul made eye contact in the cafeteria and the look he gave Paul stuck with him for the rest of the year even on into high school. Paul is now a junior and after witnessing many different bulling encounters, with the look that Gregg gave him in the back of his mind Paul was on the bus one day and a senior boy named Donald wadded up a piece of paper and was about the through it at a younger kid for absolutely no reason. Paul thinking about Gregg and the way he felt back in elementary he was tired of not saying anything, so he stood up and told Donald to “back off they never did anything to you” and after that Donald or any of the other older kids bullied anyone on the bus. The moral of the story is to not be afraid to stand up for someone that majority of the time the bully will back down in fear of being humiliated in front of