The Bully by Paul Langan Book Report Shanta R. Wilson Liberty University PSYC/221 Mrs. Rhonda Wilson July 31, 2011 I am writing my book report for Mrs. Rhonda Wilson, which is the instructor for PSYC/221. The book I will be giving my report on is The Bully by Paul Langan. This book contains 190 pages. It was copyright in 2002 by Townsend Press, Inc. and printed in the United States of America. The cover was illustrated in 2001 by Gerald Purnell and was designed by Larry Didona. I choose this book because it is something children face every day. The Bully is a story about a boy named Darrell Mercel who lives in Philadelphia with his mom. In Philadelphia, he had a best friend named Mark that would always help him when he had a …show more content…
The first Friday of New Year, Darrell didn't want to go to the supermarket parking lot to met Tyray because he didn't want to be scared of Tyray. He decided that he didn’t want pay to him again. At school, Tyray came and asked Darrell about his money, but the teacher came in so Tyray went away. When they went to eat lunch, Tyray and Darrell started fighting and then Tyray was crying because he broke his wrist. Finally, they were both sent to the principal office. At that time, Darrell told the principal what happened. In conclusion, Tyray got suspended and Darrell got a warning. There was this big fight between the two main characters Darrell and Tyray. Most fights normally go both ways but this particular fight was strangely one sided. Tyray. The excitement from this scene is clearly the fight itself and because of the irony of the situation. The irony was that the Darrell was untouchable in a fight against the bully. Constantly being laughed at and clowned by your peers can get very frustrating and unbearable. Darrell didn't receive any respect from hardly anyone in school because he was labeled as a "punk" from not retaliating to Tyrays foolishness. This conflict led to Darrell taking martial arts classes, learning a myriad of moves and techniques, and displaying them in the final altercation between him and Tyray. Darrell had to overcome his struggles with a bully named Tyray. What made this
There are many young aged kids and teens who experience bullying, some of them bullied for their appearance, some for their popularity status, and others surprisingly let themselves. However, it’s pretty doubtful anyone really knows why a kid would let themselves be bullied. Author Gary Soto developed a short story called “Fear” designating bullying with no specific theme but made to feel the anxiety or agitation of its presence of danger, pain, and evil. This author's breathtaking story is about a young 5th-grade boy named Frankie T. (F.T) with many things gone wrong in his family/life. Those things turned him to be a bully and later someone who would drown their own brother in a pool, and beat a woman with a lengthened pipe in a burglary years later. Frankie T. is an interesting character that can be better understood by examining his Character Traits, Contributing Factors, and his Motivations.
Darrell is being bullied by Tyray when ever he leaves his apartment. Darrell's friend Malik would have protected him, but he was back in Philadelphia. The book states that, "Tyray stabbed the orange bag, cutting a wide hole in it with the tip of his knife. Oranges dropped out and went rolling in all directions. Then Tyray shoved Darrell to the ground," (Page 3) and "After class started, Tyray glared back at Darrell a few times. Once he even made a fist and punched into his palm," (Page 74). Tyray was telling Darrell that he was going to beat him up after class.
I read the short story “The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander” written by Barbara Coloroso. I never pictured how bad bullying was until I read this book. What I liked about this book was how the author found a way to deal with people being bullied, the bullies and the bystanders. Also how she described every type of bullying and how to prevent them. It's a very inspirational book.
Once there was a short boy with weird looking glasses and he got picked on because he wasn’t as smart as the other kids. The way his glasses were one time another boy started to call him names then the little boy got really mad his face turned red. Then he just started crying then the teacher said “What’s wrong” then the little boy said that the bully was calling him names and the teacher said “Just ignore him”. He tried but the bully kept on then the bully hit him then the bully got into some real big trouble. One day the little boy got so mad he was just walking down the hall stumping and people was just looking at him. Then he went up to the bully and hit him right in the stomach the bully fell down to the floor and the little boy started kicking him and the little boy beady eyes were real big in his glasses then the teacher came and said “What do you think you are doing” the little boy kick the bully in his stomach the teacher pulled the little boy away and marched him straight up the office he was just yelling “Why do i have to go up to the office he was bullying me first” then the teacher said “You should have came to me or to a teacher and told”. The little boy was sitting in the office then the principal said “Two wrongs don’t make a right so why did you do it” the little boy said “ He did it to me so he need to feel my pain” the principal was just looking then he said “I can understand that but
This source gives a brief description of the final scene with the character; Gabriel talking to Saint Peter and telling him to open the gates for his brother Troy. It also gives a brief description of the significance of this scene and the characters in a Christian view. It also tells about how blues music influenced August’s work and how he portrayed the African American people during this time.
What is the most effective way to stop bullying? According to the article “ Teenage Bullies” by Jenifer Goodwin, the author discusses that the reason why teenage bullying others is because they want attentions to be more popular. First,the bullying level is also relate to the ability. Second, most of the teenage bullies are the popular kids but not the most popular kids. Third, the majority of kids did not bullying others. In addition, the author suggested that if we want to solve the bullying problems we should consider to encourage all the bystanders to speak up to stop bullying. Finally, the author also mentions other solution is the victims should know how to protect themselves. The article makes an important point when it discusses the popular kids’ intention of bullying, and the witnesses should help to stop bullying.
“The victim was standing at the front door of the school entrance when the suspect and her mother attempted to open the door. The victim would not open the door, according to school policy. Suspect and mother cursed the victim. Suspect then began punching the victim in the face numerous times. The victim received bruises and scratches to the face. All of these events occurred while school was in session and disrupted the daily business of
A school can only get involved with matters that take place outside of the building if the disruption interferes with the education during the school day. Since the fight took place on school grounds, Mr. S decided that action should be taken on the school level. Both students were given a 10 day out of school suspension and the police were contacted and charged Andy with a terrorist threat. Steve’s mother was ok with the 10 day suspension but father was not and tried to fight it. The school suspended Steve for the fight and the father stated he felt threatened so that’s why he jumped Andy. The school stated that Steve should have informed them and not taken matters into his own hands. Father said his son wasn’t a rat and so did not find this to be acceptable for the school but they lost their case and Steve served his ten days.
During dog-ball at PE Braden was hit in the ear with a ball. He was then bumped into by another student. Braden then hit, pushed the student to the ground and kicked him in the side of the head. After the student got up he chased Braden and Braden went outside the gym. Braden will be sent home for the rest of the day and have one day in-house suspension
Everyone has gone through bullying no one is safe from it. Bullying at MHS is not as vibrant in MHS as in other schools, but students know it happens on a daily even if it is not witnessed by one. Tho it occurs it seems common for students at school to not go to anyone for help. Eliza Rubio, another student, explains that, “It brings down your confidence on how people will think of you. It affects your ability to do your best at the things you used to do. I didn't go to someone because I felt like I could just ignore it, but in reality it sticks to you for life”. From Rubio’s words this reveals how the bullying and harassment led to her not performing the best as she once did. She even includes how she did not seek help because she ignored
Some employers may be working with a bully, and not even know it. The Office Bully by Kathryn Hawkins mentions virtuous points of this concept. The issue with bullies is when you think you have escaped from them, they can ultimately return and become your boss. Although you may think they have potentially matured and progressed as people, they are actually still stagnant in an oppressing manner. In my opinion, they will use whatever power they have against you, especially if they become your boss. Kathryn Hawkins mentions alerting and effective arguments in this article. She mentions Carole’s
David was confronted by anohter student in the hallway. David then got into a shoving match with the student. Another student jumped in between David and the student. David and the other student then began their own shoving match. David was escorted away by a teacher, but then did a quick spin move to break away from the teacher and began to go back after the other student after being told to stop. He squared up to the other student until he was pulled into a classroom away from the other
She then turned around and shut the door. Then Cindy thought in her head, my Mom really bought that idea as in she really thought that, that was why my eyes were red. She dried up all of the redness around her eyes and then went out to get some food. After she got her food, she went back in her room, sat down on her bed, and did her homework. She slowly ate the cookies because she wanted to savor them. She finished her homework at the same time that she finished her five cookies.
Topic- There was a fight at school between my best friend AJ and Issa. They were fighting because of a homework they got at school. They lived in the same house they think one of them has caped one of the homework that they got in the same class so they started talking in class and they were angry at each other because the teacher didn’t take their paper because it was the same thing. So after class, they were not talking they were still angry at each other so they started fighting in the hallways of the classroom until the teacher came out to see. Fighting is something that hurts other people as much as it hurts the people who are fighting.
Sitting in class, Sean sits firmly in his chair grasping his desk, full of the annoyance of the boy, Jack, sitting behind him. He tries to tune him out, but his voice sounds like a dirt bike, his face turning bright red with fury, he grasps the desk harder to resist the urge of punching the kid. The pestering boy started to talk nonsense about Sean’s dead mother, and that met his boiling point, Sean stood up quickly pushing his chair away from him, he stood by Jack’s desk looking down at him with a death glare. All the other kids, excitingly, stand around them with their phones out recording, Jack stands up, so he is face to face with Sean, they go back and forth yelling at each other. They go silent all of the sudden, with Sean’s fury, he