Summary Of To This Day By Kyczan

The video “to this day” by Shane Koyczan, based on the poem by the same name, reveals the permanence of the emotional damage bullying causes the victims. In addition, two interviews with the poet reveal his personal experiences with bullying. The poem explains how he mainly got bullied throughout his whole childhood, and how that really ruined his future, how people are constantly calling you names and labeling you for your appearance. In this poem the bullied child overcame the bullies and became famous because of telling his own story, his own point of view, his own experience.

To start with, how all the bullying beginned with was all because a simple innocent thing all kids do, confuse two words or think their the same and have the same meaning. But not only

He would confuse “pork chops” with “karate chops” it was when he was a child, when he lived with his grandmother. His grandmother would make him pork chops when he was sad because pork chops make “fat kids” happy. One day he tried to climb a tree and had an accident, where half of his body had a bruise and his PE teacher noticed and sent him to the office. He was taken away from his grandmother for 3 days because he said “my grandmother gives me karate chops when i’m sad.” They thought he was getting hurt at home and took him away, until they found out it was a mistake. The word got out about the whole karate chop, pork chop situation in his school and his peers called him pork chop and to this day he hates pork chops because he was teased about it and he simply didn't like his new nickname the kids at school gave him. He didn't like his appearance and the poem explains that the words his bullies used and the nicknames he got called hurt him. His second nickname was given to him because he tried to commit suicide in grade 10 and because he took anti-depressants, his nickname was popper. Popper because he tried to commit suicide over an overdose. One important part of the poem is that he