Elliot's Expose

When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the KidNet, he includes the following quote in his letter.

"I think people ought to realize that stuff like this goes on every day…The rest of you are all part of it-because you let it go on and maybe you think it's funny, or you think it only happens to geeky outsiders and kids who are smaller or fatter or skinnier or don't have so many friends or so much money as you. So tell me-what happens when you don't have so many friends one day, or you don't have so much money, or something bad happens to you?" (91-92)


Blog Question:
What is the message is he trying to get across to his classmates? (6pts)

The message that Elliot is trying to get out by what he wrote on KidNet (page 91-92) is that what is going on at Darkland middle school could happen to anyone. And he is asking other kids, what if you were the victim? What if you would be that someone who the bigger kids would hurt? And no one would help you. What would you do then? He is saying that this can happen to anyone, because when the wrong people find the week areas in a person they will have found their new bully victim. And when that happens... Well, there isn’t a lot you can do about it! So even if you aren’t being bullied doesn’t mean that you don’t have the responsibility to try to stop bullying whenever you can, because someday you might end up being that someone who needs help and then someone else might help you and stand up for you, just like how you would have stood up for someone before who was bullied.