Bullying And Violence In Carrie, By Stephen King

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Everybody is different from each other, and what make us individual unique are the choices and actions we take or don’t take. No matter where you are from, you will find people who will try to help you, or destroy you. Carrie, by Stephen King, is a story about this girl, Carrie White, which discovers she has powers. But she also was abused physically and psychologically by colleagues and her mother. Because of it, she sought to make them all pay for what they’ve done. Abusing somebody is never the answer, because of it, the other party will get traumatized to a point of becoming unsocial or violent .Also, revenge is something that will not benefit anybody, and people tend to mistake revenge with justice. The book Carrie is a story …show more content…

Schools systems cannot prevent bullying at 100% because it’s difficult to look out for all the students and to make sure nothing bad is happening, but sometimes the adults responsible for preventing those events, it is easier for them to look away than take an action. The person that bullies the others, they feel some kind of pleasure, due to the fact that human’s beings enjoy violence. Violence is not always physical, but also psychological, a great amount of people who suffer bullying are traumatized throughout their all life, because nobody took any action to prevent it. The other party that gets bullied has barely anything to gain or nothing at all. Rarely, people who get bully become stronger, because they know what to do the stop those actions, and sometimes not only they overcome their fear, they help others to do it. Usually, these types of people they have a high sense of what is right or wrong. They don’t take revenge to their abusers, they desire for only …show more content…

Justice is the process or the result of using laws to fairly judge people accused of crimes. Most people when they seek revenge, they don’t use justice as a tool to their advantage. On the other hand, they use violence has their weapon of choice. When seeking for revenge, people are blinded by anger and other emotions that cloud their judgment. They want to hurt the other person/s, so they can feel good about what they’ve accomplished. "Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes…hollow." Alan Turing. When we take all the emotions aside and start thinking more logical, we ended looking for justice more than revenge with violence. We have to clear our mind to see the bigger picture of what is the best action to take. From my past experience, there was a student that was bullying this other student just for the fun of it, and things when bad really fast. It wasn’t the first time that happened, but nobody did anything because it wasn’t “cool” to stop it. So the student that got bullied took his multi-tool, which comes with a small knife, and stabs the bully with it in the shoulder. It wasn’t serious because it didn’t go deep, but the student that was bullying the other one, got suspended, and their parents ask to not suspend the student

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