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Racism To The Poem: To This Day

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To This Day
Shane Koyczan
Short story/poem

To This Day is a Poem/short story by Shane Koyczan. It is about bullying and the lifelong effects it has on people. Shane tells the story of many people and how they reacted, and responded to being bullied. Within the text we see the effects of being bullied and this theme was shown as a spoken word poem. It is amazing the way he captures the different emotions and it really makes you reflect on life and how valuable other people are.

The Poem starts with a simple story about Shane calling Pork Chops, Karate Chops and him climbing a tree, before realizing ‘fat kids are not designed to climb trees’. Shane then falls out of the tree and is taken to the principal 's …show more content…

This is an amazing quote referring to the children 's rhyme “Sticks and stones might break my bones, but words can never hurt me”. Except in Shane 's perspective, mental emotions hurt more than physical. Because a broken bone can heal but broken hearts will always stay the …show more content…

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