Jay Asher's Suicide In Thirteen Reasons Why

Riley Edlitz suffered through years of harassment in elementary school, which she believes catalyzed her role as a bully. Now a freshman at Scarsdale High School, Riley distinctively remembers feeling powerless and insecure. “The bullying just really got to me, I believed everything they said about me. I felt worthless.” She was mocked, tormented, and insulted on a daily basis; “I became a shell of the person I once was,” she accepts.

In “Phoebe Prince: Should School Bullying Be a Crime?”, an article written by journalist Jessica Bennet addresses school bullying, the outcomes and the consequences that bullies deserve or not. Above all, this article aims the spotlight on bullying, a 15-year-old who took her own life due to harassment, torment, rumors, physical threats all leading it to being bullied by well-known good students. In any case, the process of being bullied has never been taken into consideration nor importance in the school system or by society in general. “It’s even gotten better over the past decade says Dan Olweus, a leading bullying expert”. However, bullying just does not disappear, it is still an issue that humankind does not have any diligence to the cause

Bullying uses someone putting others down in order to emotional better themselves because they feel better about themselves causing pain and distress to someone else. This can be traced back to the novel as Andy feels better about his unfortunate predicament the more he hurts others. This hurting people to heal yourself is what the main theme of this novel stems from in a philosophical viewpoint. The many brushes with philosophy in the novel harmonize with the underlying theme of deception and using others to heal oneself. Conclusively, the main villain and theme within the novel weave together with the many philosophical points and issues with morality in order to create a concise and alluring

“Scotty Richey … killed himself on his sixteenth birthday … nobody could understand about Scotty … But the way I see it is, he just didn’t have anybody. … It was like we were all the animals on Noah’s ark that came in pairs, except of his kind there was only one” (Kingsolver 132-4). In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees, Taylor mentions to Estevan her classmate Scotty Richey’s suicide. She explains that although her school had a very distinct social hierarchy, people within a class had each other for company. Scotty, however, had nobody. As a result of the extreme isolation he faced, he committed suicide. Today, bullying is a developing issue in the world and exclusion, which Scotty faced, is just one of many forms of bullying. What Scotty experienced in the novel occurs in schools around the world, and the consequences are unimaginable and horrific. In light of the increasingly advanced technology developed in recent years, cyberbullying has become a more common form of bullying among students. Cyberbullying, or bullying that occurs through the internet or media, happens due to the courage that bullies acquire by not having to physically face their victims. The harassment the victims experience lead to mental as well as physical health issues, which often times leads to suicide. In order to prevent such grave repercussions, education systems and parents must teach kids how to behave properly on the

Sandy's short story addresses bullying as we see through the eyes of Bill Turner, an awkward boy whose body grew larger and taller than the other seventh-graders. When Bill suddenly grabbed his classmates’ sandwiches, the boys ran away unintentionally conceding that the power was in Billy’s hands.

Every teen will fear isolation in some portion of their lives and bullying is one theme that can lead to isolation. In the novel, The Loser’s Club by John Lekich, a fictional novel revolving around the persistent theme of bullying. The main conflict impacts a group of individuals stereotyped as “Losers” based on the antagonist’s opinion. The protagonist, Alex Sherwood is an individual who is impacted by the negation of bullying from Jerry Whitman’ gang. The persistent message of the novel explains the teen’s fear of speaking up. Lekich chose Alex Sherwood as a character with a disability and who felt isolated from his family to stand up against the students that were bullying him. Alex declared “‘Don’t do that, Whitman,’ I said -not

Imagine having something dear to you, that you and your elders have had for centuries, taken away by the government. That is what the 18th Amendment is and that special thing is Alcohol. The 18th amendment was ratified on January 16th 1919, but it wouldn’t go into effect until January 20th 1920. Ever since Colonists came to America, alcohol has played a major role in the lifestyle of Americans. The 18th Amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment, or its affect was no more. This took place in 1933. The 18th Amendment was controversial because the 18th Amendment both positively, and negatively affected the nation, the amendment came about by people who wanted to prohibit alcohol, and the amendment had more cons to it than pros.

One example as to why I believe The Catcher in the Rye shouldn’t be censored for anyone in middle school and above is because the students would be able to handle the

Bullying is very common in most schools in the United States Around three million United States students miss class every month just because of bullying. When Alex Libby shared his story he gave a voice to millions of children who suffer from bullying, because he shared his story it changed the way most people think of the effects of bullying. An example of bullying is there was a girl named Kelby Johnson who was mocked by teachers and students because she was a lesbian, she had to stop playing basketball because her ignorant teammates didn’t want to be near her. Alex Libby is one of the 13 million school children in the United States that is being bullied. Alex’s mom said “ Kid’s back in the day, could go home and be safe you can’t do that a lot now, now you can get bullied online.”

When in the course of human events, it becomes imperative to shake off the bands of repeated name-callings and falsely given identities which have been connected for so long, and to assume that the playing field is once again even, giving your undivided attention and respect to the opinions of the unheard and abandoned as they state why they have decided to stand up against the bullying and how they plan to write how to isolate themselves from bullying altogether.

When Jeannette begins school in Welch, an African American girl Dinitia Hewitt and her friends harassed and beat up Jeannette for being scrawny and filthy. She is constantly made fun of because it is apparent that she lives in poverty. The other children do not accept other that aren’t like them and Jeannette is no exception. Her worn clothes and grimy hair are like a neon sign shouting about her life in poverty which makes Jeannette an easy target to bullies. Jeannette tries very hard to stand up for herself, however, the bullying only stops once other realize that living in poverty and being different was not Jeannette’s

The main argument for why certain books are banned in schools is because the students need to be protected from the content within the books. For example, 13 Reasons Why, a novel about a teenager who commits suicide and leaves behind thirteen tapes containing her reasons has been banned from schools such as the Colorado School District, and some Canadian schools. The book was deemed as “negative portrayals of helping professionals.” and according to Lora Strum writer of the article “Banning books like ’13 Reasons Why’ makes it harder for teens to open up to adults, the author says”, “the book glamorized suicide”. As a whole, the school districts either took

The novel explores the damaging effects of bullying, peer pressure and the dynamics of group interaction within teenagers in a modern day society.

Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year. “Hey everybody, let’s put her in the closet before the teacher comes ! “ said the children from “All Summer in a Day”. These children can be very vicious. Cruelty and jealousy are shown in the way the children treat Margot (the main character)in “All Summer in a Day” .

‘Caught in the Crowd’ by Kate Miller-Heidke is an effective example of a narrative poem related to teenage bullying. This engaging poem casts viewers into the story of a young girl who travels through high school and witnesses bullying. Certain circumstances lead to broken friendships, due to the female's personal inability to stand up for someone in need. The message being