Sunday, March 11, 2012

No Fun in the Sun

Authors Note; This essay is about a girl that gets bullied in a terrible way. The essay will inform kids what bullies can do  to kids and how to handle them. 

Visualize a place where it rains for seven years and then near the end of the seven year period the sun comes out for one hour. During that one hour period you get locked in closet by a bully until it’s over then somebody lets you out, and it’s raining again for 7 years. All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury is a very sad short story that deals with lots of bullying and what bullies can do to kids and how it can affect a kid’s life.

Throughout the whole short story of All Summer in a Day the main character was constantly being bullied, she was being called names and pushed around, and other mean stuff. I can relate to the main character in this book, in second grade I was bullied and I got called names and pushed but you cannot show the bully that he is getting inside of your head or he’ll continue doing it. You just have ignore bully or tell a parent, (Margot) the main character just ignored the bullies the whole time but the most effect way to get them to stop is telling a adult that’s what Margot did wrong.

In real life when kids get bullied most are too scared to tell an adult what’s going on, because they think that the bully will make fun of them even more. If a kid doesn’t do that the bully will get into his head eventually, and then the kid will start to believe stuff the bully says like “you’re so stupid” or “you’re not good enough to play that sport”. In the end most of kids will think they’re worth nothing so some attempt to commit suicide. According to https://cybermentors.org 20 kids every year commit suicide because of bullies. Bradbury really shows the readers in his book how bullies can crush kids and make them think they’re worth nothing.

All Summer in day is in fact one great short story also it shows the kids young and old what bullies can do if you don’t handle them correctly. Bradbury short story is truly one sad book but a great life lesson for kids so they know how to handle bullies in the future.

2 comments:

  1. Is this the book were they live on Jupiter and great job with the introduction

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  2. If I could tell you one recommendation I would revise and include some grammar errors with missed commas. Also your essay could've been been better if you connected to literature. You need to connect to 3 things while you only connected to two out of the three.

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