Blog response instructions:
• Answer the questions in complete sentences and use proper English (restrain from using MSN chat style of writing).
• Use evidence from the novel to support your answer and include page numbers.
• When commenting to your peers, be respectful in your language and about their responses. It is okay to disagree, but do it in a polite manner. When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the KidNet, he includes the following quote in his letter.
"I think people ought to realize that stuff like this goes on every day…The rest of you are all part of it-because you let it go on and maybe you think it's funny, or you think it only happens to geeky outsiders and kids who are smaller or fatter or skinnier or don't have so many friends or so much money as you. So tell me-what happens when you don't have so many friends one day, or you don't have so much money, or something bad happens to you?" (91-92)
Blog Question: What is the message is he trying to get across to his classmates? (6pts)
The main message Elliot is trying to get across is what happened to him and also giving his opinion how bystanders are hurtful and negatively contributing to bullying and not just the bully. He also means that it doesn't happen like once in a week to someone it happens to them repeatedly, everyday maybe every year until college or maybe temporarily but it happens to them everyday. He is also trying to get across what type of reasons there are for this repeated torture(bullying). At the end he is trying to get people to like tell him others stories using instances of things that can hurt you or infuriate you and sometimes drive you to taking revenge on them or other people.
