Bullying By Eudora Welty: A Personal Experience

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If you’ve ever been bullied, you probably know how horrible it is to be a good person but have so little respect. A very common cause of this unacceptable treatment is discrimination. At camp, I made friends with Elijah, a boy who was bullied for being different by his whole bunk. The worst part was that my friends that come to school with me everyday participated in this and refused to acknowledge that he was my friend, no matter how many times I said he was. I felt horrible that people I thought of as friends would be so mean to anyone because they have different personality traits. Now that it is a new year, I suggest that he make sure to request people he can trust not to treat him awfully because he is different. I was disgusted that anyone would treat another human so horribly because of their perspective on how “normal” the person is. Every day, he would tell me about how furious his bunk made him. I couldn’t believe that the people I thought were my friends could even think to do this to a person who’d done nothing to offend them. Once, during free time, I went to his bunk with him because we had nothing to do. Everyone in the bunk claimed I had been dragged into the bunk and that he refused to let me leave. I told them that I came willingly, but still they continued, and the other people convinced the counselors …show more content…

Unlike last year, when I hardly knew him, this year I plan on requesting him to be in my bunk. I have never been in a bunk with anyone particularly mean, and, most of the time, the rude people get in so much trouble at camp they find it torturous, and don’t return. The suggestion I would give to him is to find more friends. Because whenever aren’t happy about someone, friends are the ones who will always be there to help you out. If he finds more friends, he will have enough people to express that what the campers say about him isn’t true, because just one isn’t

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