Summary: The Importance Of Sentries

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Sentries are around us all day even if we don’t know it. Sentries are people that protect us from anything dangerous. Sentries can be security guards, teachers, family members, siblings, and even your friends. People themselves can also be sentries to anyone they know or even to themselves. Valuables are being protected by sentries because they have a danger to be protected from. Valuables can be something that has a great worth to the smallest item of property. Valuables can be money, family, friends, animals, and something that means a lot to someone’s life. Dangers can be many things. Weather it is something as small as a piece of gossip to something as big as death. Most people nowadays deal with bullies. In school or out, they can be anywhere. Even if you go somewhere you think you are safe. In the narrative, ‘The Bully Guard” by Elina Lehoisky, her two close new friends, Zoe ana Lucas, protect …show more content…

In this narrative, Zoe and Lucas are sentries to Brooke because they protect and help her from cyber bullying, bullies in school and the new California life style. For example, One day Zoe and Lucas see Brooke, and she shows them the bullying she got. The emails, the texts, they were all really bad and hurtful. “It been a week since the person started texting me and the only person that knew about this was Zoe and Lucas.” This shows that Zoe and Lucas are sentries to Brooke because, they are not making the bullying into a really big deal. They keep it between them three, making it a problem that needs to be fixed but they don’t exaggerate it which helps Brooke stay calm and not freak out. Zoe and Lucas get involved with the texts and emails by reading some of them, showing it to the guidance counselor and her mother. But, the three of them realized telling the guidance counselor wasn’t such a great idea. Another example is, later on in Brooke’s new life, she sees a very big, scary man and

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