On The Bridge Bullies

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In “On the Bridge” by Todd Strasser, Seth wants to be “cool” and be friends with Adam. Seth does everything to be like Adam. He tries to make his denim jacket look old, worn, and look like it survived many fights, just to be “cool”. One day, Seth and Adam are hanging out and are smoking cigarettes on a bridge. After Adam finishes smoking, he throws the cigarette butt over the edge of the bridge and it lands on the windshield of a car. When the owners of the car ask who did it, Seth didn't want to say that it was Adam because it wouldn’t be “cool”. But, Adam didn’t really care and blamed it on Seth. Seth got punished for “doing” it and wound up with blood every where. After the fight, Seth goes home and throws away his jacket, basically throwing …show more content…

The Kobras are the schools bullies run by Monk Klutter. The Kobras make students in their school pay for passes that aren’t necessary. They ask the students for their lunch money and these tickets can be up to one dollar. These passes vary the reason they are given out. For example, one ticket that was given out was because Melvin was too short. After Melvin got bullied by The Kobras, Priscilla stepped in and asked for the leader of the group, Monk Klutter. Priscilla then fights with Monk and winds up putting him in her locker, and locking it. In “On the Bridge” by Todd Strasser and “Priscilla and the Wimps” by Richard Peck, the characters struggle with character .vs. character situations. The tension builds up and results in the “good” guy winning and the “bad” guy losing …show more content…

The “bad” guy in this story are the Kobras, but to be specific, Monk Klutter who is the leader of The Kobras. In this story, the tension is built up when Priscilla is fighting with Monk and results in shoving him into her locker. The Kobras are the bullies of the school. For example, they steal people's lunch money for “hall passes” that the school does not require. “... there was a time when you couldn’t even go to the restroom in this school without a pass… I’m talking about a pass that could cost anywhere up to a buck, sold by Monk Klutter.” These passes could be for anything, such as being too short. That's just one thing that they charged Melvin for. When Priscilla heard that The Kobras were bullying Monk, she stepped in. She asked for the leader and got involved. Not only did she stand up for her best friend, she stood up for the whole school because as a result of her standing up, she gave Monk a taste of his own medicine, she put Monk into her own locker. “ … frog-marches Monk into her own

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