Sherrow's Theoretical Analysis

Sherrow organized his argument very well. He started with a heart wrenching story about a boy who took his life because he was bullied, which helped get the reader's attention and made you want to continue to read. It also helped show that bullying is a problem. He then goes on to define bullying, which helps the reader understand what bullying is and some components of bullying. Then he talks about the origin of bullying and some studies done on rats and chimpanzees to see if animals also take part in bullying, which it showed that animals do bully. This helps show that in order to stop bullying we have to get to the origin of bullying. What was most effective about his organization and development was that he used his statistics in the

right place and they also helped with his argument. He strategy of hook the audience with a story was a good idea and something that I might use in my writing. Also he used quite a few statistics and studies, which is also something I could use in my own writing. I think in his article the main cause of bullying is our ancestors. In his article he says that bullying started because of our ancestors. Overall this argument had a great development and organization.