In Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk, there is a new girl named Betty and she is a horrible person. Her cruelty exceeds normal bullying; when she is close to dying, she tells a lie that ends up killing the town vagrant, Toby. Betty’s bullying built up over time, starting with small threats of bruises and a lie that led to the killing of an innocent man. It starts with Betty making threats to Annabelle about her family, and then Annabelle ends up with a bruise. She is so mean that she gets shipped to a different town because of how cruel she is and Annabelle says “She was described as incorrigible, a word I had to look up in the big dictionary at the school house”(Wolk 5). Betty hits Annabelle with the stick because she doesn’t like Annabelle and enjoys the fun of bullying her. …show more content…
“I had spitballs clinging to my hair and tiny red sores on my legs,” Betty reached back and poked me with her pencil. I wasn’t happy about the situation, but I was glad that Betty had chosen to devil me instead of Ruth, who was smaller than I was and dainty. And I had brothers who had inflicted worse upon me, while Ruth had none. For the first week after Betty arrived, I decided to weather her minor attacks, expecting them to wane over time.” (Wolk 6-7) Here, this quote shows how Betty usually likes to pick on small people and how cruel she just is. She likes to pick on small people because she knows that they are more vulnerable. Betty continues her spree of lies and says that Toby pushed her down a well and she says he threw the rock.“ And she said he threw that rock, too, which is a lie. You just admitted it, he said. Because she was scared, she didn’t mean to hit Ruth. I closed my eyes and looked at him. Please, I