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What Are The Elements In The Bully

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"The Bully" by Paul Langan is a great book there is a lot of elements in the book that happened which made this book a lot better. The general idea and moral expressed in this book is its a kid named Darrel Mercer who is from Philadelphia who moves to California. and attends Bluford high school and is now getting bullied by the school bully and he doesn't know what to do. In the book there is lots of mood swings, character development, and symbolism.

First element shown in the book is mood swing. Darrel is a skinny small kid that attended school in philly but that changed when his mom found a better job in California. Darrel was the type of kid that thought about every solution like he didn't want to move because he knew that he wouldn't have any friends.The first day of school there was a kid named tyray and he started bullying Darrel and because he knew Darrel was a punk and he was skinny and frail he got 10$ out of him every Friday. …show more content…

Darrel is in California so he now has to get comfortable with his natural surroundings rather he like it or not. A girl named Amberlynn was a girl that Darrel had met at the supermarket and actually liked but was scared to ask her out because tyray liked her to "thinking the bully would hurt him if he knew he knew Amberlynn" So since Darrel was a punk on Christmas And for the new years Darrel New Years resolution was he said "he did not want to be scared of Tyray and he won't pay him again". So then he went to school it was a Friday and every Friday he pays Tyray he didn't go to the supermarket to pay Tyray but he went straight to school. While being in school they both never actually had the full time to say what each other had to say until lunch time and rite into lunch Darrel started fighting tyray and Darrel was using the moves he learned in wrestling and Tyray was crying that he broke his wrist and they were both sent to the principals

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