• Did this reading remind you of something else you have read or watched (such as a movie or TV show), or something that you have experienced in life? If so, what from this reading reminded you of it? If this reading did not remind you of anything you have read, watched, or experienced before, what made it different?
• What do you think this reading is trying to convey? What, in your opinion, does the writer value or criticize?
• Did this reading challenge or reaffirm your feelings or viewpoints about an issue?
This week’s reading was all very interesting, but one had stood out me the most as I, myself, have been bullied before for being on the bigger side. In middle school, I was purposely tripped while walking through the hallway, laughed at and when I turned I saw the girls that always made pig sounds at me. Eventually the girls who bullied me did leave to go on to high school the following school year and I never saw them again. Line 6 states the words of a classmate, which claims that the girl has a great big nose and fat legs (Piercy 659), she is not what is considered “beautiful” by the other …show more content…
Where have I seen or read anything similar recently? It came to me, on the subject of teen suicide, I have seen a television show that did speak of the topic. A Netflix show called “13 Reasons Why” that focused on a young high school aged woman named Hannah. She had left behind 13 different cassette tapes, each with an explanation for 13 different people as to why she killed herself and their involvement in her decision to do so. While the reasoning within the television show was very different from the young woman displayed in the poem, the subject matter is a big one. Many teens do commit suicide, more so girls than boys; Beginning in 2007 and ending in 2015 alone, there was a doubling in teen girls suicide rates by more than 30 percent among teenage boys (Lewis
• What do you think this reading is trying to convey? What, in your opinion, does the writer value or criticize?
• Did this reading challenge or reaffirm your feelings or viewpoints about an issue?
This week’s reading was all very interesting, but one had stood out me the most as I, myself, have been bullied before for being on the bigger side. In middle school, I was purposely tripped while walking through the hallway, laughed at and when I turned I saw the girls that always made pig sounds at me. Eventually the girls who bullied me did leave to go on to high school the following school year and I never saw them again. Line 6 states the words of a classmate, which claims that the girl has a great big nose and fat legs (Piercy 659), she is not what is considered “beautiful” by the other …show more content…
Where have I seen or read anything similar recently? It came to me, on the subject of teen suicide, I have seen a television show that did speak of the topic. A Netflix show called “13 Reasons Why” that focused on a young high school aged woman named Hannah. She had left behind 13 different cassette tapes, each with an explanation for 13 different people as to why she killed herself and their involvement in her decision to do so. While the reasoning within the television show was very different from the young woman displayed in the poem, the subject matter is a big one. Many teens do commit suicide, more so girls than boys; Beginning in 2007 and ending in 2015 alone, there was a doubling in teen girls suicide rates by more than 30 percent among teenage boys (Lewis