To Interview Or Not To Tell Analysis

According to the article, "To Tell or Not To Tell," 4 out of 5 school shooters revealed their plans ahead of time, but no one reported any threats.” The article also stated that, "70% of people who committed suicide told someone or gave warning signs before carrying out their plan." These numbers could be decreased significantly if more people would tell an adult about a person's harmful plan, but most teenagers have troubling deciphering whether a comment from a peer is a harmless joke or a harmful plan. Others fear they will end friendships or get called names so they decide against telling an adult. Although some teenagers of “To Tell or Not to Tell” by Mary Kate Frank argue that you should not tell an adult when a life threatening situation is happening because other teens will call you names such as tattletale, closer examination shows that you should tell an adult because it can save a person’s life.
What if one day your friend confesses to you that she does not want to live anymore and pulls up her sleeves to show you the cuts on her arm? Would you tell an adult or keep quiet because you feared your friendship would never be the same? This exact situation happened to 17-year-old, Natalia Szurawski. Natalia tells the readers …show more content…
As school shooting and suicide numbers are on the rise, more kids are learning about what needs to be done in order to tell an adult. After the Sandy Hook shooting, a program called, “Say Something” was started to teach kids on how to speak up when they feel something is not right. This program has trained nearly 400,000 students in 350 schools to stay alert to warning signs and tell an adult when they see one. The “Say Something” program and many other similar programs are helping to decrease the suicide and school shooting numbers and are helping to save lives. So whenever you see a warning sign will you be the one to tell or not to