Eleanor And Park Bullying Essay

“Bullying can threaten students’ physical and emotional safety at school and can negatively impact their ability to learn. The best way to address bullying is to stop it before it starts”( Prevention at school). My critical literacy book is about bullying at school. Bullying happens at all age levels and can happen anywhere. For educators the least we can do is make school a safe bully free zone for the students.

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among people of all ages, but mostly school-age children. Society has been aware of bullying since around 1693, but it was not viewed as a real problem until the 1970s. “While overall incidents of school violence, such as assault and theft, have declined in the last decade, bullying is on the rise.” (qtd in Tyre) The percentage of middle and high school students that have been victimized by bullying went up from 14 percent in 2001 to 32 percent in 2009. (Tyre)

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

Cyber bullying and face-to-face bullying are to major concerns in today’s society, the movie Mean Girls and the novel Destroying Avalon have themes about bullying in them. The texts show us how more people can be affected by certain types of bullying as well as how it can change behaviour and how bullying can build up to physical violence.

Bullying in the schools of today harms the innocent students all because of the at home violence the bully had received I will talk about the risk of bullying along with the effect bullying has on students. Bullying has affected people since the dawn of time. The first reference that a bullying scenario was recorded is found in the Bible. This relates to Lord of the Flies in the way bullying took over their lives. From the story to today’s world, they are similar methods of bullying found in both, from making fun of a nerd to beating up a kid these are found in both.

Over three million students are victims of bullying every year. Bullies deal a lot of pain to their victims. There are multiple kinds of bullying and there are also different effects. Between the two stories, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury and “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson bullying is shown in different forms while also having different consequences. In Jackson’s story, the bullying has a much greater impact because it hurts a whole community unlike Bradbury’s story which is targeted to one character.

The book states "Bullying is done on purpose, with the intent to hurt or embarrass you." This shows that there is no mistake about the act , they're trying to hurt someone. In addition, "...sometimes a bully will corner you in an empty hallway and actually carry them out. But bullying is usually done for others to see. Bullies don't just want to prove their power over you. They also want to make sure that other people know that they have some sort of control over how you feel and act..." So bully make sure someone knows to show that they are powerful and shouldn't be messed

Bullying is an aggressive behavior where someone is repeatedly and purposely causing someone else injury making them feel uncomfortable. It can be physical, hurtful words, or just certain actions. According the article “Bullying and Suicide,” it states that nearly 30 percent of students are bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of bullying (Word Press, Par. 1). In this essay I will

Bullying is bound to happen anywhere at any time but occurs mostly within school limits. Kathleen Winkler defines bulling in her book, Bullying, as “...any kind of ongoing physical or verbal mistreatment, done with the intent to harm, where there is an imbalance of power between bully and victim” (Winkler 14). Bullying has an extremely important impact on one’s everyday life and can affect their life negatively getting to the point where they can no longer take the blow. To try and prevent bullying from taking place in schools, one needs to know how bullying effects a person, what the role of each person involved in the situation is, and have knowledge of specific methods on how to prevent it. Bullying in schools is a serious problem and a handful of school do their part to prevent it; others, not as much, which means there is room for improvements.

This book can also be used to talk about bullying, and to make the students realize that we all are different; some of us are strong readers and writers while others might have different strengths, and by working together with each other

In the book, Eleanor and Park, It was Eleanor’s first day at a new school and she had to ride the bus. She dressed on the odd side, had bright red hair, and already labeled the fat girl. The kids on the bus already made assumptions about her. As Eleanor got on the bus kids moved the bags and scooted to the edge of the seats so Eleanor couldn’t sit with them. As Eleanor got closer and closer to the end of the bus she panicked. Park usually doesn’t sit with anyone and made the decision to let her sit with him, even knowing the consequences of teasing from other kids. Even though they never talked to one another they grew respect for eachother. To keep Eleanor from feeling like a total outcast Park would let her hang around him and his friends

Bullying, specifically teen bullying, has become a worldwide predicament. Nearly “30 percent of teenagers in the U.S. have been involved in bullying, either as a bully or as a victim of teenage bullying” (Bullying Statistics, 2015). Bullying makes individuals fearful and feel unsafe in their own environment. Often times, the media discusses bullying frequently. It has become a topic that has influenced the public perception. Bullying in the media has had some negative and positive effects. It has positively shown people that bullying is not inevitable nor unstoppable. The media also shows that it is not going unnoticed in society. The negative aspects tend to stereotype individuals who are bullied have a weakness predisposing that individual to bullying because they are flawed. Furthermore, the media and literature portray bullying in movies and books to let others feel as if they are not alone in this bullying epidemic, which pushes them further into isolation. I personally find myself believing that the exposure to bullying in the media gives society a chance to understand the harmful effects it can have on individuals. Furthermore, the media gives society a chance to understand how to prevent it and provide a safe environment for those exposed to bullying. This targets audiences of all ages because all play an integral part in halting bullying.

Central Idea: Bullying has been around for years, but it’s time to make a difference and get rid of it.

The article Bullying in School: The Traumatic Effects of Bullying on Children was written by Dr. Terry Ehiorobo. Dr. Ehiorobo has the following qualifications to address these issues, because he has worked as a school teacher and principal. Currently, Dr. Ehiorobo is employed as a school principal at an alternative school in Kenosha, WI. The main idea of the article is to focus on how these acts of bullying can cause long-lasting effects for the victims. Basically, bullying has a real emotional and psychological impact of children. Many adults do not take bullying seriously; therefore, many children have seek drastic measures which resulted in suicide and/or murder. The article states, “Even the president has taken a strong stance on the issue of bullying. He stated, “We’ve got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage” (Anderson, 2010).

School bullying and bullying as a whole has become a growing concern. The need for more intervention is more recognized, as incidents of bullying and inappropriate acts towards others occur in places outside of the classroom. This literature takes a closer look at bullying in schools. Olwesus (2013) states “the field of bullying research is to some extent plagued by problems, disagreements, and unresolved issues” (p.752). Whether if anyone will agree on the root of bullying, the fact remains that bullying has to be examined at its very core to remedy the matter before it becomes a bigger concern. There is a dire need for intervention based programs to be set in place to address the fact the act of bullying has lasting effects on the bully and the victim. When intervention programs are put into place to address bullying, the act of bullying decreases due to the gained understanding of the effects.