Effects Of Bullying In A Day And The Possibility Of Evil By Ray Bradbury

The children are painfully jealous of Margot, therefore, hurting her because of their own pain. Since Margot was different than the others and stood apart, one of her classmates shoved her and mocked her while she looked out at the rain. Margot didn’t respond to any of this jealousy, as it says in the text “But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else.” The kids kept mocking, shoving and yelling at Margot because she thought that the sun would come out. The problem progressed so much that the children grabbed Margot and locked her in the closet so she wouldn’t see the sun that just came out in seven years. That sentence in the text was “They surged about her, caught her up and bore her, protesting, and then pleading, and then crying back into a tunnel, a room, a closet, where they slammed and locked the door.” This shows how mean her classmates were, they knew that

All Summer In Day by Ray Bradbury shows the reader that jealousy can lead a person to do cruel and mean things to classmates and peers. Kids didn’t believe and criticized her and judged her. No one believed she wrote a poem and when she described the sun no one believed her. One arguments someone could make is that desire could be a larger theme than jealousy. This isn't true because the kids got jealous of Margot and then desired, they can’t desire because they have never seen the sun. Margot was also mistreated by classmates. She was shoved and locked away in a closet. Jealousy can make people do man and cruel things to classmates and peers.

In “Phoebe Prince: Should School Bullying Be a Crime?”, an article written by journalist Jessica Bennet addresses school bullying, the outcomes and the consequences that bullies deserve or not. Above all, this article aims the spotlight on bullying, a 15-year-old who took her own life due to harassment, torment, rumors, physical threats all leading it to being bullied by well-known good students. In any case, the process of being bullied has never been taken into consideration nor importance in the school system or by society in general. “It’s even gotten better over the past decade says Dan Olweus, a leading bullying expert”. However, bullying just does not disappear, it is still an issue that humankind does not have any diligence to the cause

Jamie Nabozny’s story proves that even though times seem dark, there is light. He fought back against his bullies in the most noble way, by proving them wrong and spreading kindness and positivity. Many students who feel oppressed felt encouraged to stand up, just as he had. (Restate Thesis Statement) Ultimately, the influence of Jamie Nabozny’s story reaches out to everyone, bullied or not, and proves that the victim can overcome their bullies. (Strategy: Summarize Major Points) Jamie Nabozny proves that bullying is rough, and it is difficult to keep your head over the water. However, there is always a way to come through and prove the bullies

In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Possibility of Evil”, Miss Adela Strangeworth lives in this small town on Pleasant Street. She is a nice old lady who everybody loves,but she’s more than nice she’s evil. She seems to be a good person, but she’s not. She walks by the townspeople smiling ,but started writing evil letters about the people and sending the letters ruining the town people’s lives. They don’t know who is sending the letters,but Miss.Strangeworth wrote these letters out of pride which shows how evil she really is. The theme of the story is that there is the possibility of evil in anyone.

To begin with, Miss Strangeworth expresses her evil when disclosing written letters to various people anonymously. Miss Strangeworth comes upon a woman named Helen Crane who is upset about her baby being slow in the stages of development. In response to the lady being upset, Miss Strangeworth claims, “Nonsense. All babies are different. Some of them develop much more quickly than others” (Jackson 3). Meanwhile, Miss Strangeworth composes a letter addressed to Helen Crane stating, “Didn’t you ever see an idiot child before? Some people just shouldn’t have children, should they?” (Jackson 4). This is significant as it reveals her harshness in the letter. She is being hypocritical and discourteous leading to an act of cruelty by being offensive to Helen speaking

To illustrate, Miss Strangeworth is very self-centered when writing her anonymous letters: “Miss Strangeworth never concerned herself with facts; her letters all dealt with more negotiable stuff of suspicion.” This quote helps clarify Miss Strangeworth’s feeling of being inconsiderate; she wanted to be suspicious about business that she did not have the right to be involved in. If she is not apart of the situation someone is going through, then there is no need for her to be involved. Similarly, Miss Strangeworth believes she needs to be the hero for her town: “As long as evil existed unchecked in the world, it was Miss Strangeworth’s duty to keep her town alert to it.” This quote shows how Miss Strangeworth does not care if she is not involved in an argument, and she feels it is her duty to get involved.

Everyone expects an elder to be really kind and sweet. Shirley Jackson’s “The Possibility of Evil” tells a very different story. Miss Strangeworth out in public is kind and sweet, but behind closed doors she is very deceptive. Miss Strangeworth’s character can be analyzed by what she does or says, what the narrator says, and how others react to her. Miss Strangeworth is a very selfish lady in the story.

The problem is that Miss Strangeworth causes a disturbance in the town when she thought she was doing good. She causes evil in the town. Jackson writes, “After thinking for a minute, although she had been phrasing the letter in the back of her mind all the way home, she wrote on a pink sheet: DIDN'T YOU EVER SEE AN IDIOT CHILD BEFORE? SOME PEOPLE JUST SHOULDN'T HAVE CHILDREN SHOULD THEY?” This means, “While Miss Strangeworth was thinking for a minute, even though she had been thinking of the letter in her head on the way home, she started to write on a pink paper: HAVEN’T YOU SEEN A DUMB CHILD BEFORE? SOME PARENTS SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAD A CHILD SHOULD THEY?” The theme was evil can arise in any person or thing and the it first appears when she starts writing this letter. Later, after she finishes writing her first letter, Jackson writes, “She was pleased with the letter. She was fond of doing things exactly right.” It means, She thought writing the letter was the right thing to do, that she wanted to do it right. It is significant because it shows that the evil is arising in her because she does not stop and think about what she is

The theme of All Summer In A Day is depression. One example of this is the bullying marot went through, which played a major role in her depression. Another example of margot's depression in the passage is while all the other children sing and dance while margot barely moves her lips unless the song is about the sun. This is because margot misses the sun so much that she has become depressed. Another example of depression in margot is when she refused to shower because she was so psychologically disturbed she started not acting sane.

While she is kind around other people and asks how they are then when she gets home she writes secret notes that are very harsh. “DIDN’T YOU EVER SEE AN IDIOT CHILD BEFORE? SOME PEOPLE JUST SHOULDN’T HAVE CHILDREN, SHOULD THEY?” Jackson (pg. 58). This is an example of one of her cruel letters that Miss Strangeworth sends to people. She thinks she is being helpful by telling people about the evil nearby but it only causes trouble in the end. Furthermore, when she goes to deliver her notes one of them falls out. “Wearily Miss Strangeworth turned to go home to her quiet bed in her lovely house, and never heard the Harris boy calling her to say that she had dropped something.” Jackson (pg. 61). Since Miss Strangeworth didn’t hear him calling the Harris boy now has the cruel note that she wrote to Don Crane which he delivers to him. Now the town knows that it is Miss Strangeworth who has been sending the letters so then the other characters get revenge by cutting her roses. Without a doubt, Miss Strangeworth tricks the other characters by believing she’s a friendly and dainty

Miss Strangeworth’s actions during the story reflect her various personalities. For example, Jackson writes, “Don and Helen Crane were really the two most infatuated young parents she had ever known... ”(2). The protagonist is being kind to Mr. and Mrs. Crane and their daughter by acknowledging them and soon reassuring them that their baby will be just

In Shirley Jackson’s The Possibility of Evil, the main character, Miss Strangeworth is at first perceived as a typical lovely old lady. As the story develops, the reader learns more about how she is as a person, revealing the stranger and evil side of her. Miss Strangeworth is a wicked, a hypocrite, and egotistical women. She is a wicked person because she writes rude and cruel letters to people anonymously.

Many kids all around the world are abused by their parents, peers or even by complete strangers. One of these types of abuse is bullying. At a first glance, we might think that it is an older kid beating/teasing a younger classmate however; bullying consists of much more than this. The basic definition of bullying is when your behavior hurts or harms another person physically or emotionally. There are many different types of bullying, which may lead to a victim becoming violent later on. There is teasing and name calling, there is also picking and shoving the kid. However, the most extreme one would be beating up the child, hurting them physically and mainly, emotionally.

Thesis: Bullying in its many forms affects all people no matter age, gender, and class, but the effects can be very dangerous and very hurtful.