Moran's Camp Cruel

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Did you know that over 3.2 million kids are victims of bullying each year? In the excerpt from Margaret Cho’s autobiography titled Camp Cruel, a young girl named Moran tells her experience with being bullied. She describes in detail what children did and said to her and how she dealt with it. Moran goes on a church summer retreat with kids that she’s known all her life. She speaks about how she was picked on by everyone she came in contact with at the retreat. Most of the kids at the retreat would call Moran, “Moron” because they said that this name was a better fit for her. Their constant rudeness really discouraged Moran. She was just a young Korean girl wanting to fit in and make friends. However, she couldn’t even do that because she was constantly getting bullied by everyone. As the story continues, Moran comes to her senses and realizes that what other people think about her does not matter. What matters most is what you think about yourself. You must push those negative people away in order to survive.

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