Look Both Ways Quotes

In Look Both Ways, Stevie is alone at school. When Stevie is thinking about yesterday, when he causes Pia to lose her board, he is thinking about Marcus. Stevie thinks, “Marcus and the boys”(48). He is thinking about how he helps them, and he is regretting it, and thinking about how things would have changed if he had not done it. This quote shows that Stevie is alone at school because it shows that not only Marcus is bullying Stevie by drawing things on his shirts, and other things, such as pouring water on his pants, but also all of his friends, which makes it go from one person bullying him, to a group making it so he cannot fight back, and isolating him from the rest of the students, by making them scared they will be bullied if they hang out with him.

In Look Both Ways,

While Stevie is sitting at home thinking about why he is never ready to go to school, Stevie remembers himself simply standing or sitting around at school, and then Marcus and his friends do things such as “ran up on him and threw a cup of water all over the front of his pants. Then they cupped their hands around their mouths and announced to as much of the world as possible that Stevie had pissed himself” (50). This shows that he is used to being bullied, and even though it makes him not want to go to school, which is why he is never ready. This quote shows that while Stevie is trying to delay school as much as possible, he is used to and accepts how his life at school will go. It shows that while he never wants to go to school because Marcus always embarrasses him, he can deal with it because he always ends up going to school anyway. This shows that he has incredible resilience because no matter how much Marcus bullies him, he still goes to school, and he still does not tell anyone about Marcus. This shows his mental strength because even though they keep bullying him, he never decides to tell anyone, switch schools, or anything