ISU Blog Post #3
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/i-was-bullied-in-school-while-my-classmates-and-teachers-watched-in-silence/article4612426/
Why Have I Chosen This Article?
I chose this article because of the similarities that my novel and this article have. The article starts off with a woman who has been through a lot of bullying. In the article she explains that her and her friends have been treated unfairly even going to the point where one of his friends took her own life. Named Amanda Todd she has been verbally and mentally abused for months. Through all the humiliation and traumatizing, she had faced her darkest days pleading her parents that she didn't want to go to school. At one point of her life she didn't want to live anymore and so on did. The woman telling the story doesn't name herself and continues telling how they went through the process of bullying. This article is related to my book because in my book" The monkey face chronicles" the protagonist Phllips has a condition that makes his face look distorted and which is why they call him Monkey face. Phillps is later on bullied and everyone else that witnesses the fight just ignore it except for his brother Micheal who continuously throughout the story reminds Phillp that he need to stick up for him. When Phillps is beaten up and left on the floor he decides to run away from home even if it kills him. In his mind he thinks about how no one wants him and how he always going to be treated by that if he wasn't caught by he's mother looking through the window there was a high chance that Phillp would have committed suicide
How Does This Relate To My Novel's Social Issue? This is related to my novel in terms of social issue by: the way they both act and think about being bullied. Both of them had deep thought about their life in way that could make then never recover from depression for example: they didn't care that their family loved them, they have got use to rejection and not having friends even when they needed one the most and etc. In the outcome they both always said that "I was worthless, that I would never have any friends, that my existence was useless."Thinking that running away will solve their problems. In the end they both related by how they handle the situation of being bullied
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/i-was-bullied-in-school-while-my-classmates-and-teachers-watched-in-silence/article4612426/
Why Have I Chosen This Article?
I chose this article because of the similarities that my novel and this article have. The article starts off with a woman who has been through a lot of bullying. In the article she explains that her and her friends have been treated unfairly even going to the point where one of his friends took her own life. Named Amanda Todd she has been verbally and mentally abused for months. Through all the humiliation and traumatizing, she had faced her darkest days pleading her parents that she didn't want to go to school. At one point of her life she didn't want to live anymore and so on did. The woman telling the story doesn't name herself and continues telling how they went through the process of bullying. This article is related to my book because in my book" The monkey face chronicles" the protagonist Phllips has a condition that makes his face look distorted and which is why they call him Monkey face. Phillps is later on bullied and everyone else that witnesses the fight just ignore it except for his brother Micheal who continuously throughout the story reminds Phillp that he need to stick up for him. When Phillps is beaten up and left on the floor he decides to run away from home even if it kills him. In his mind he thinks about how no one wants him and how he always going to be treated by that if he wasn't caught by he's mother looking through the window there was a high chance that Phillp would have committed suicide
How Does This Relate To My Novel's Social Issue? This is related to my novel in terms of social issue by: the way they both act and think about being bullied. Both of them had deep thought about their life in way that could make then never recover from depression for example: they didn't care that their family loved them, they have got use to rejection and not having friends even when they needed one the most and etc. In the outcome they both always said that "I was worthless, that I would never have any friends, that my existence was useless."Thinking that running away will solve their problems. In the end they both related by how they handle the situation of being bullied
