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Lord Of The Flies: Parents Need To Address Bullying

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Parents Need to Address Bullying

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the audience witness multiple acts of bullying.

One time in the book Piggy was being called fatty by everyone when Ralph made it worse by saying his nickname, Piggy, which only made it worse since Piggy hates that name. Parents, not schools, need to take care of the bullying in schools.

Merriam Webster’s definition of bullying is “the abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger, more powerful”. So to be a bully it means that the strong pick on the weak because they can. Examples can be seen when co workers continuously mess with one person, or the classic big kid picks on little kid. That definition proves that bullying needs to be stopped …show more content…

In the article Personal Health; A Bully’s Future, From Hard Life to Hard Time, written by Jane E. Brodyjan, wrote “In a videotape, the young gunmen attributed their acts to retaliation for years of taunting that they said friends and relatives had inflicted on them…”(1). The fact that someone was bullied into that extreme of a response is terrible and the parents should have been a little more observant of their children most likely acting differently at home. On top of friends messing with them they also had their relatives which isn’t right; the relatives shouldn’t have been taunting them.

Parents need to make sure that their children know they have someone who understands them and would never want to hurt them. Also in Jane’s article she wrote “ Bullies, researchers insist, are not born, they are made” (1). If Bullies are made and schools are not doing a good job of taking care of it then parents need to be the ones who take action and dish out punishments that the school can’t. Parents should be aware of what their child does at school so they can do a better job of knowing what their child needs and what they need to do as a

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