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Tuesday Of The Other June

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“Tuesday of the Other June” is a short storynovel written by Norma Fox Mazer. The main character, June T, is a modest girl who only lives with her mother in a small town. But one day, she meets a bully named June M who bullies her excusing that she has the same name. This story clearly tells about bullying, and that the author believes that “You should stand up for yourself to stop bullying.”
The idea of standing up for yourself is certainly described by in the conflict and the resolution. The conflict of this story is June T getting bullied by June M and not standing up for herself in swimming class. However, the resolution happens when June T stands up for herself at school. June didn’t stand up for herself to not disappoint her mother who always insisted,
“"It's just you and me, two women alone in the world, June darling of my heart; we have enough troubles getting by, we surely don't need a single one more, so you keep your sweet self out of fighting and all that bad stuff. People can be little-hearted, but turn …show more content…

By connection, it means that I have my own personal experience, world issue I heard from the news, and information I read from books and watched from movies. Based on my own personal experience, when my friend was bullied it only made the situation worse whenever she didn’t stand up for herself because it made the bullies think that the bullied person is not strong enough to fight back. Also, in personal education textbooks that the school gave me in first grade, it showed that you should stand up for yourself when you are bullied because it might lead to a lack of self-confidence. Lastly, I read a newspaper article that people tend to lose self-confidence if they do not stand up for themselves at the very beginning point because in the worst case, people might even commit suicide. For that reason, I strongly believe that standing up can stop

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