That is why we should, “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself” (Harvey Fierstein). Sometimes, turning our cheek the other way is not always the correct answer because we never know what someone else is going through in their personal life. Standing up for someone who is bullied can be hard
In Fences by August Wilson, the protagonist Troy has a rough adolescence and attempts to do more for his children by not being similar to his father, but with fate the inevitable occurs. Growing up Troy felt that his father did not care about him and was selfish, for example when Tory recounts his childhood to Bono, he says “sometimes I wish I hadn’t known my daddy. He ain’t cared nothing about no kids. When it come time for eating... he ate first.
When I was growing up my cousin was getting bullied, when I was six years old, and my aunt and mom would always say, “Why can you not protect yourself, it’s okay to fight back.” Every time my aunt would visit, my mom would tell me if anyone bothers you don’t be like your cousin and let them because then you're letting them walk all over you. But in school, the message was to tell the teach for the issue to stop, which is what my cousin apparently did but I guess the situation stay the same. However, parents teach their children to fight and even the society that someone lives in can make people angry enough, to act
In Fences, by August Wilson, the protagonist is constantly doing wrong to the people around him, betraying them constantly, and yet they continue to love him. “Sometimes when he touched he bruised. And sometimes when he took me in his arms he cut.” Troy’s wife is the one who is saying this, she is admitting that he did harm to her. Throughout the novel, he consistently betrays Rose by not giving her the love she deserves and by cheating on her.
Speaking up is a very situational there are times where speaking up alters the outcome for the better and other times where you’ve made it worse by not being silent. I had seen it happen before my eyes, a 7th grader getting bullied by an 8th grader. One of the 7th grader's friends had run and told a teacher the next day the 8th grader wasn’t there but, when he came back the bullying was worse than before. Now, this isn’t for all situations but, sometimes turning away is the answer. After walking back from watching a movie with my friends a group of troublemakers had approached us asking “where are you from?”
Everybody makes a mistake for example, a kid named Julian from “Wonder” written by R.J. Palacio. Julian made a big mistake, but he doesn’t realize it was a big deal. Julian is not a good role model that kids would look up to. First of all, Julian is really sneaky. Julian is also 2 faced.
There are those that are bullied, the bullies themselves and then perhaps the largest group, the bystanders. I have experienced the bullying of others, and I have also stood back as others have been bullied. I must admit, I felt relief as I stood back and watched as the bullies decided to “pick on someone else” for a change. I also felt the need to stand up for the other kid being bullied. This as you can guess, never went well as inevitably the bullying was turned back on to me and unfortunately the other kid being bullied felt the relief of their attention being turned back on me.
Stop the Bullying People is not always willing to stand up for what they believe is right. One of the reasons why people is not willing to stand up is because they fear getting involved in legal problems. Others do not want to lose time discussing over this situations. Many of them do not know that there are consequences for what they chose to ignore. What I think about this is different.
Why do kids that are being bullied have a really hard time standing up for themselves? This is a problem because kids don't know how to stand up for themselves and commit suicide or cause them to be really emotional. Kids that happen to get bullied are scared to stand up for themself because they automatically assume that the person bullying them is way stronger than they are. Bullying is something we need to stop by teaching our kids to stand up for themselves.
According To Dan Pearce, “People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves , the more we want others to suffer.” Many families have struggled with their kids being bullied by others. But their not hurting anyone but themselves because they know that ’s it’s wrong to bully others.
Some people also bully others to fit in. Because the school bully is usually the popular kid, they want to be like them. Everyone wants to be popular and accepted, so they think of bullying as a way to get what they want. People also bully others to avoid being bullied themselves. Some kids think that bullying makes you look big and bad, and that will make others afraid of you, so they will not bully you.”
Also, while the bully is bulling the victim they don’t feel bad about it. Bullies face different consequences then the bystander. Bullies suffer depression when they hurt the victim. When they are caught bulling and get in trouble nobody feels bad for the bully. Nobody wants to be around the bully anymore.
As a kid, my parents always taught me to stand up for myself and others. Basically they told me I always need to kindly put someone in their place. Whether I was part of the problem or not. As quoted, “If you see or hear something you don’t think is kind, saying nothing is just as bad as partaking. Don’t be afraid to stand up for someone in the same way you hope someone would stand up for you.
The thing that someone might say if they disagreed with me is instead up speaking up for the victim of bullying they do nothing, and some people might say that that is ok because they aren 't hurting anyone and they aren 't changing or hurting the situation, but that is what does hurt the situation which is not doing anything at all, that is called a bystander. “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything” Albert Einstein. What I would say to the person who does not agree with me and would say that being a bystander doesn 't hurt the situation is, maybe it doesn 't hurt the situation but that doesn 't mean that the situation could be better if you helped in pich into the situation, even if you don 't want to help you could tell somebody that has authority in the
Why should we stop bullying? “I would rather be a little nobody, than to be an evil somebody.” ― Abraham Lincoln (GoodReads, n.d.). Bullying is a major problem that we haven’t been able to stop, bullying has been exceeding every year, and it is the time to make it stop!
