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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)
He is trying to make his classmates understand how it feels to be bullied by a bully. He also wants them to try not to be a bystander that starts to help the bully. Instead, Elliot wants to make the bystander know how it feels to be bullied before they join the bully or just go away. For example, on page 59, The Jock Rots dropped him off the bridge and the only people that were there to help were the Jock Rots and Russel. Burke and Blanchette ran away, but Big Chris and Russel stayed and helped Elliot. This is what made Elliot write the article on "The Revealers". He wrote the article so that nothing like this would ever happen to him again.
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I agree on what you said on how he wants to make his classmates feel on how it is to be bullied
hey arfan,
I agree that Elliot wants his classmates or maybe everyone to not be a bystander that eventually helps the bully but wants them to be a bystander that stands up to the bully. I agree that Elliot wrote the article so that nothing like that would never happen to him again but he also might have written it because he wants Burke and Blanchette to feel scared for once and also he wants people to stop being afraid of telling their true stories to people. I really liked your blog post. Good work!
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