A Strange Day in July
Dudley Dursley had a lot of problems. He had a problem with being a bully. He had a problem with school. But most of all, he had a problem with being a bully at school. He was the worst of the bullies. All of the other bullies looked up to him as their leader. He was the one who wasn’t afraid to give a kid a wedgie, noogie, swirly, or another kind of something-ie. On this particular Friday during lunch, he was pulling his most infamous “joke.” And that would be dunking an innocent victim’s head in the toilet. This time it was Harry Potter, a kid who Dudley felt deserved the treatment. He did it with his friends Russel and Corbin of course. They did the actual dunking. “Let me go!” Harry sputtered, hoping he wouldn’t drown. “Fat chance,” Dudley sneered, as Corbin dunked Harry under again. “I’ll make it worth your trouble,” Harry told him once Corbin had let him up. “How?” asked
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He blurred past cars, buildings, and people, who were no doubt wondering what a boy his age was doing out of school. He didn’t stop until he reached the town harbor. And then he started sobbing. Sure, he had parents that worshiped him and allowed him to kick Harry Potter around, but why did Harry have to give him those stones. Maybe, he thought, I should be less…selfish. But he quickly pushed the thought out of his mind, and pulled in a new one. I should get rid of these stones. In a fit of anger he threw all three stones out into the water. He watched the first and second one sink, but not the third one. In fact the third one was floating. Then, like a VHS tape being rewound, it slowly came out of the water and back into his hand. That’s it, I’m hallucinating, he thought. He tried again. This time, he skipped the stone, a trick Russel had taught him. He threw with all his might, but the third stone came skipping back. He let out of a howl of frustration. He couldn’t get rid of those stupid
He was portrayed by town the as an evil monster who has done so many horrible things. In reality, all of the horrible things were just made up stories that the children had heard. He never hurt anyone, despite all of the stories. The only horrible thing he did was kill Bob Ewell but he had extreme good intentions.
The Biggest Bully Bully’s are awful people no matter what, just like how Archie Costello is in The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. Archie is a senior at Trinity High School that has a lot of power and chooses to abuse it. Archie Costello is the biggest bully in the book because he only respects himself and makes everyone else do his dirty work. Archie only respected himself and no one else in the book. He only thinks of himself, never anyone else.
He was ugly, because he was rude to other people, and he also stole the largest potato from the
He studied at the University of Washington where he fell in love with a wealthy, pretty young woman from California. She had everything that he wanted and was devastated by their breakup. Many of his later victims resembled her. He often raped his victims before beating them to death.
He said that he’d tie two cats’ tails together, hang them up, and let them go after each other. At school it wasn’t any better for him. Bullies would beat the crap out of him, and then when he got home his dad would. So after getting beat up constantly he decided that he was done with people beating him up. One day at a bar a guy really pissed him off.
As the sun rises on the Great Plains, the rays gently touch Iktomi’s eyes, waking him up. Iktomi is dressed the part of a Lakota Brave, but inside he does not act the part of a Lakota Brave. He is a trickster; self-absorbed, vain and dishonest, eventually driving away any friendly smile come to be his friend. Navigating the Plains alone, he has become an outcast and constantly makes silly decisions further adding to his infamous reputation.
Other students had started coming up with mean nicknames such as “Dave The Food Thief”. Dave was constantly doing chores since he was his mother’s “slave”. He had so many responsibilities that most children wouldn’t have. Dave had felt like he wasn’t even part of a family or had his own life he wasn’t even allowed to be in the family car. Dave started stealing food from When the trash can at home since the store owner had found out about Dave stealing food and had report Dave to his mother.
He exercised a mentality of being untouchable seen in the way he pushes the limits of his
I’m William Dilley, I was camping with neighbors when this tragic event unfortunately happened. We thought we were safe but the big clouds of ashes kept approaching. There were people camping on the other side of us, but unfortunately they didn't make it. Martha is my neighbor and her and I were sent out here to investigate the mountain.
June didn 't want time to pass, every passing second just led to Tuesdays which was the day she would get assaulted and bullied. June doesn’t tell her mom that any of this is happening. All she does is tells her mom that she fell on the cement. Little did June know it would get much worse when she coincidentally moves in next to the other June. In the end, as the other june was going to stab June, the teacher saw and and she got sent to the office.
The main focus throughout the duration of the book is bullying; tone, symbolization, and modern connections help provide the understanding that bullying is a never- ending issue. The villains and the hero of the world both have the right to exist, they both have a purpose and what we learn from them helps everyone
When Harry’s mother passes away, he gains responsibilities such as looking after Keith, doing housework, caring for his father and finding his way without a loving mother. Harry ‘could cook at the age of seven’, and he and Keith ‘shared the duties [their] mother left [them].’ Harry now ‘make[s] breakfast… on [his Dads] birthday’ because he knows how to, with the knowledge he received as a young child. With all the duties his mother left Harry, readers see that Harry has the independence of an adult. Harry’s father cuts his finger off at work, ‘it severed the bone, the tendons, and spat across the factory floor.’
Nowadays bullying has become the major and common problem for children and can awfully affect their lives in many different ways such as depression and suicide. William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, takes place in the 1950’s in England, where Golding used to be a school teacher and face many types of problems among children. According to his novel, bullying is a particular problem for Piggy who cannot fit in a community because of his initial appearance. Even though Lord of the Flies has many purposes and it is not focused on just one target, Golding explains bullying and its impacts on Piggy very smoothly beside the main idea of the story. He shows how bullying causes Piggy to lose his self-confidence, breaking his glasses and became dependent and intimidated.
How does bullying affect someone's life? In the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, General Zaroff relates to a bully in multiple ways. Like a bully, they often seem nice and friendly, to gain a person's trust and befriend them. General Zaroff conducts himself as a gentleman to Rainsford, befriending him by giving Rainsford shelter and food. Then, a bully will pressure that person into bullying others, much like how Zaroff pressured Rainsford into hunting humans.
Literary Analysis Suspense. It's what makes us sit on the edge of our seats at movies, or has us biting our nails as we read. It’s the backbone behind any classic horror film where the babysitter keeps getting unknown phone calls about checking the children and she asks the police to trace the call only to get a call back saying it's coming from upstairs.