Push the Bully is not a bad person. In fact, no matter how ironic this may sound given his name or how mean some of the things he does to others in the story may seem, Push is actually a good person with good intentions. He may appear mean and cruel, but he bullies kids with the purest of intentions at heart: to give a voice and to acknowledge and recognize the people in society who are shunned or thought of as other. Push’s desire to do good results in him using unorthodox methods to acknowledge those who are conventionally ignored and attempts to make those kids feel comfortable in their own skin and eventually culminates with him getting into a fight with John Williams.
Push disowns conventional standards, while acknowledging that they exists.
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Push pities those who are discriminated against because they do not fit into societal standards. Push responds to his pity through love and displays it when he says, “ I love nobody loved” (Pg 173). Push’s idea of doing good and showing his “love” is giving recognition to the unrecognized through bullying. He elaborates on this when he says, “ Me and the devil, we do God’s dirty work” (Pg 181). Push is saying that he pays attention and gives recognition which is doing God’s work, but because the kids he gives attention to are the kids nobody loves, so he must do the “dirty work” of paying them attention through bullying. Push may seem bad to the reader as one might contemplate that there are ways to show another person love and give that person attention other than through bullying, but as Push later explains, hate is all he has so that is his only way of expressing his love for the people nobody loves. Push says, “ I will not be reconciled, or halve my hate. It’s what I have, all I can keep” (Pg 190). Because hate is all Push has, it is his only way of showing his love and affection. Even though his ways of giving recognition to the people considered as other may seem twisted and even though they would prefer other methods of receiving recognition, for the most part they enjoy it because no matter how twisted it may seem, being acknowledged is better than being ignored. As an example, when Push ignores Frank, the fat boy, instead of bullying him like usual, Push realizes that in response Frank seemed “a little hurt” (Pg 181). The fact that Frank seemed “hurt” that Push didn’t bully him seems odd to the reader, but it just enforces the idea that Push is actually doing good through his bullying. In sum, Push’s desire to do good causes him to show his love for those that “nobody loved” using the one thing he can give
Buddy’s sense of right from wrong is strong to begin with, thanks to a foundation in the Boy Scouts and idolization of the Wonderful Weiner man. At the tender age of nine Buddy is a proud member of the Boy Scouts, but his troop is a typical set of third-grade bullies. While waiting for the Weiner Man, the troop picks on a mentally-challenged boy, but a nerdy member of the troop protests. His protest is followed by Buddy’s request to “Leave him alone”; this shocks his troop out of bullying the boy (Perrotta 7). This small act of standing up for Kazoo shows that Buddy is compassionate and knows right from wrong; but this act is comical and ironic because immediately following his righteous defense, he lets his troop beat up the nerd without saying a word. So begins Buddy’s first steps towards following the wrong crowd. According to WebMD, children may be naturally equipped with an “inner strength,” or “resilience,” which allows them to appropriately handle “stressful situations” (WebMD). Buddy has that inkling of inner strength, but due to his pa...
Charles Starkweather was from a respectable hard-working family in Lincoln, Nebraska. Though they were not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, the Starkweathers always provided for their large family. As a child, Starkweather suffered from several ailments that made him different and a target of bullies (Allen, 2004). In fact, he used his physical strength to get back at many of his childhood bullies. He was able to release much of the anger he held inside when he was able to physically bully those that had bullied him. Overall, Starkweather lived much of his life as a social outcast and blamed many of his problems on his inability to “blend-in” with his peers.
John is trapped inside of his symbolic cage and is kept in mostly by his father Bore. John has had aspirations to become a famous actor when he gets older, but has been discouraged by his father all the time. This could lead John into having self confidence problems when he’s older and hurting his future ...
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The documentary film Bully (2011) – directed by Lee Hirsh – takes the viewer into the lives of five families that live in various, predominantly remote, towns across the United States. All families presented have been affected by bullying, either because their child was at the time being bullied by peers at school or the child committed suicide due to continuous bullying. The film also profiles an assistant principle, Kim Lockwood, whose indiscreetness makes the viewer...
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