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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Bullying Gets You Nowhere


Author’s Note: In this upcoming paragraph about a short story called "Tuesday of the Other June" by Nora Fox Mazer. This short story will tell you why bullying is bad. Please see if you can make connections with this story.

What do you think of bullying? This is a short story about two little girls who come in a bad situation, and then everything gets fixed by one little word. June was a little girl who had signed up for swim. When she got to her practice, there was another little girl named June. The June that had just had come to swim asked the other June what her name was and they both said June. I thought it would be cute for two Junes being friends, but the new June thought didn't. So the main June the one who came to swim, and had said, “No, June is my name, your name is Fish Eyes”. The other June from swim had gotten  pretty mad. I mean, if I were the girl who just got called fish eyes I would be pretty mad!

So the fish eyed June had pushed the new June into the pool and had gotten in trouble. I don’t think that the main June should have called her fish eyes in the first place. Every since the fish eyes joke, the swim June had been very rude. She would pinch the main June, push her and pull her hair! Sounds to me that there is some bullying here. A lot of people have been bullied. I can’t personally make a connection with the bullying situation, but I see some bullying. The main June had her special days, Tuesday was her bad day because she had swim, which means more of the other June.

This time the other June had made up more names for main June. When main June had gotten home her mom said, “Were moving”! I thought it was a little fast in the story and was so un-expected! The main June wanted to go as far as way as possible from her swimming class. Her mom had her switch schools, June was a little happy about that! It’s hard to start a new school. Saturday was the day of the big move, they gathered everything up and hit the road.

June had started her new school and was surprised. The other June goes to that school! Not only her new school, but new neighbors! The main June didn’t like what situation she was in. More other June means more bullying! I would go straight to an adult if I was in this situation.

The swimming June had offered for the main June to sit by her. When their teacher had left the class room, the bully June lifted up her pencil and was going toward the main June to poke her hard. Finally the main June just said one little word, “No”! Everyone was shocked and started laughing. Who knew that one word could stop everything? I had no clue that this was going to end with just on little word. Again the main June just said “No”, over and over again. Everyone giggling while the rude June had a bright red face. While the rude June was sinking down into her set, the main June was so happy it was all over. The other June was suddenly being very nice to the main June. This short story had shocked me so much! This is why bullying is a bad situation, because it starts things and gets you nowhere.

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