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• Answer the questions in complete sentences and use proper English (restrain from using MSN chat style of writing).
• Use evidence from the novel to support your answer and include page numbers.
• When commenting to your peers, be respectful in your language and about their responses. It is okay to disagree, but do it in a polite manner.
When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the KidNet, he includes the following quote in his letter.
"I think people ought to realize that stuff like this goes on every day…The rest of you are all part of it-because you let it go on and maybe you think it's funny, or you think it only happens to geeky outsiders and kids who are smaller or fatter or skinnier or don't have so many friends or so much money as you. So tell me-what happens when you don't have so many friends one day, or you don't have so much money, or something bad happens to you?" (91-92)
Blog Question:
What is the message is he trying to get across to his classmates? (6pts)
The messagethat I think Elliot is trying to get across to his classmates is that everyone is aware of something unair or unjust happening at the school, but that they do nothing to stop it as they may think it is funny or that it doesn't happen to kids like them, that it happens to people who are different in unlikeable ways. They think bullying is common as they thin going to school. As if this was one of the things it is meant to do. Elliot is also sayinthat those who do have friends and are not bullied may one day change and become a victim, and then they shall realize what pain and suffering nd sorow the children at the school endure all year and maybe even more. He says tat all this bullying happens because of the being diferent in way we don't prefer. This happens uner your nose and you should take action to stop it because what if something happens to you and your the victim how would you feel then. Don't bully for the fun or to take out anger on others... just DONT bully.I completely agree with what he says and that it is like if we stick together and try to stop bullying in this school t can work.
