Persuasive Essay About Bullying

Jeremiah is a symbol of caring and kindness and regularly throughout the novel he puts the desires of others above his own. Throughout the story, Reuben vividly exclaims how he doesn’t understand some of the actions his father chooses to enact, Rob Cline claims that “[Reuben] struggles to understand the purpose or fairness of some of Jeremiahs deeds”, the reason for this is Jeremiah’s attempts to teach Reuben how important the value of kindness is, and that sometimes you have to place the wellbeing of others above your own needs (1). However none of these lessons are as significant as when Jeremiah chooses to sacrifice his life for his son. After Reuben and Jeremiah are gravely injured, they both meet in a euphoric place between Heaven and Earth. In their supernatural glade of paradise, Jeremiah and Reuben run together along a river before arriving at the entrance to a city in the sun. It is here that Jeremiah commits his defining act, a heroic transaction to save his son, and takes Reuben’s place in death. Days after the event has passed, Dr. Nokes reveals to Reuben the truth, he states, “Your father should not have died, Reuben.... No organs were damaged. Blood vessels, yes. But he actually shouldn’t have died” and furthermore Reuben finds out that he “shouldn’t have lived” (Enger 307). Throughout the novel Jeremiah is a truly wonderful father for both children, and often refers that he would

Once again good triumphed over evil. This student felt that Jeremiah maintained his composure and acted just as he should.

Jeremiah had been working at Rueben and Swedes school as a janitor. After the two murders Superintendent Holgren began to treat Jeremiah differently, as he allowed his opinion to determine whether or not Jeremiah deserved the job. Holgren made work even more difficult and disagreed with everything that Jeremiah did. Jeremiah, being the calm person that he was, never retaliated with negative words. He allowed Holgren to mistreat him, even in front of the staff and students in the school. Holgren finally resorted to firing Jeremiah in front of everyone, but Jeremiah simply touched his face and walked away.

Until Gabriel can go with him [because] that school is so far away” (40)
- Father Bouchard says he must go because “it is the law.” (40) 
- Chapter 6: When Gabriel doesn’t know how to communicate with his brother because he only speaks Cree and his brother only speaks English
- Chapter 7: when Champion-Jeremiah is told he cannot speak any Cree when he gets off the plane, and Jeremiah “felt a choke breaking against his throat” (70)
- Chapter 8: when Jeremiah witnesses his brother getting sexually abused and does not know how to react or how to feel, “he had not seen what he was seeing” (80)
- Chapter 14: Jeremiah looked strange after assimilation (113)
- Also in this chapter is where Jeremiah’s feelings of fearfulness slowly goes away, he assimilates his brother Gabriel into the westernized culture by bringing him to the mall and showing him around, eating the food at the mall

During Christmas time, everyone bought each other a gift. Despite his memories at his home, Josh begins to think about it as Christmas draws near. Nevertheless, Joey writes a letter to their home, to tell their

Jeremiah is 16 y.o. young boy. Most of his life he spent on the streets with his family. Both his parents are homeless. During his childhood he’s seen a lot: poverty, hunger, drugs, fights, and violence. His all family, parents and tree brothers, were living under the bridge. He was deprived of basic things.

Immediately it was so hot under here I imagined my face darkening and rising like a loaf of yeast bread, but my chest did start to loosen,” (Enger 20). This demonstrates harshness in the world by how a loving, faithful, good family has to have one child with a disease that can kill him. Jeremiah is peaceful, Catholic, person who devotes his life to God, but still has a child with asthma. Jeremiah is doing everything right in life, but still has to worry if his son will make it through the night without an asthma attack

He and the rest of the family would arrive the next morning to celebrate the holiday. I closed my eyes and inhaled the aroma of peppermint and freshly baked cookies as my grandmother held me tight. Lights from the glistening tree illuminated the room in red and green. Rocking back and forth, she combed her hands through my hair, all the while praising me for every inch I had grown since my last visit. Christmas was tomorrow, and I could hardly contain myself.

Sara nudged him as Santa turned away to follow Becky, the office manager who could have been Audrey Hepburn’s twin. They

Jeremiah reflected on using “I-Messages” to communicate when he is upset or frustrated instead of profanity, asking his mother bubble bath to make his bath time more enjoyable, and asking his mother’s permission before sharing private household stuff.

-“My Father has told me stories of you, you are the noble Edmund!”, Jeremiah speaks with a tone of wonder in his voice.

God set aside Jeremiah before birth to take a message to the nations. One of the symbolic actions that Jeremiah was commanded to do, was to buy a linen waistband, and hide it among some rocks along the river. After a period of time God told Jeremiah to go and retrieve the waistband. When Jeremiah did, he found that the waistband was ruined and worthless from prolonged exposure to nature’s elements. This was a illustration of God’s people and how their wandering after other gods had exposed their lives to pagan influence, and that soon made them spiritually

“This power is unbelievable!” She thought. “I brought this on myself, if I prolong this fight any longer, I’ll be in trouble.”

What if you were terrified to go to your school every day? 160,000 students miss school each day because they get bullied and are scared of what will happen (“Bullying Statistics”). Bullying has been a major problem in schools for far too long. Students should not be scared to go to a place that is supposed to be safe and where they can express themselves. Students that bully never get the punishment they deserve, which causes them to continue to act. When you go to school, you should know that if you are getting treated in a horrific way, the people who were treating you that way will get punished. Students who bully should be suspended from school.

People would think that since bullies are the ones who abuse others at a young age, they are the ones to abuse the law as adults. Victims at a younger age do not grow up the way they should. Revealed to peer pressure, they do not learn what would make them an adult. Childhood experience in bullying is a cycle and the victim can not get out of it unless the solution is solved earlier. The parents of the victims need to know it is a bigger issue than it seems and they should do something about it. According to a study, 14 percent of people who claimed to have been repeatedly bullied throughout their childhood years have been in prison, compared to the 6 percent that weren’t bullied.