The short story we read in class is called Tiri, written by Phil Kawana. In the story Tiri, he faced many challenges but one of the most difficult challenges he faced was neglect. Tiri was a young disturbed boy that had been neglect. Due to that he had a lot of anger built in him. He let out the anger by fighting other students at his school “The desire to hurt someone, anyone is incredibly strong. It sits within me like a cold iron weight”. He has never been accepted in school by his classmates and teachers. Instead of accepting him they would tease him for wearing clothes that are made out of his sister dress that remained. It helped me understand that if Tiri would have been accepted by his classmates then he would not have started fighting