To This Day Poem Analysis

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The video “To This Day” by Shane Koyczan based by the poem by the same name, reveals the permanence of the emotional damage of bullying causes the victim. In addition, to interviews with the poet reveal his personal experience of bullying.In this essay it talk about about how he had to be removed from his house for 3 days. After the 3 days they found out that he did not get abused at home. Then when he came back to school after the whole entire school found out about what happened they gave him a nickname “pork chop”.He knew that nicknames can hurt more than anything like stick and stones can break bones.Shane Koyczan is the boy that got bullied in the poem. In the summary, during when he came back from school a lot of little stories when by about how much they would laugh about the confusion of the pork chop.He was not the only one who got bullied at that school there was a girl that in 3rd grade she got called ugly for the first time.she got called ugly because of a birthmark that covered almost …show more content…
But they grew up believing that they would never find someone who will love them because of all the names they called like “ugly”.The boy and the girl will hang out together in the back of the class, they would stay inside because they thought outside would be worst.They thought that as adults their consequences were that they would not be able to fall in love with anyone because of the names. The names will hurt them because they would think that they would because they would think that they would never fall in love with anyone because they thought they were ugly..Then, the bullying does come

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