2nd Post for the Book
I am 1/3 of the book so far and many interesting things have happened. So far, the two main characters, Gary and Brendan have been introduced. Gary had come into the High School before Brendan did. Gary was a little bit over-weight, but he hasn’t been teased a lot. He really gets teased when he befriends Brendan. The bullies basically tease Brendan because he is different than all the normal kids and he wants to be different. Because Gary is his friend, they also tease him. Also, they tease the gorup of friends in which Gary and Brendan are.
It is horrible to see that this two new kids come to school and are completely teased just because they want to be different. Unluckily, this happens in all schools. As I read the book, I was surprised when a football player pushes Brendan into a locker really hard and a teacher, who was standing right there, didn’t do anything about it. I thought that the teacher would stop the bully or help Brendan, but he just stood there. This made Brendan hate the people in the school even more and more. Also, in gym class, the class was playing American Football and one of the football players tackeled Brendan really hard. They were playing TAG football. The tecaher, however, didn’t do anything. What really scared me was Brendan’s reaction. He said he wanted to get a gun, shoot the teacher, and then shoot the football player in both legs. Then he would leave him there and make him suffer until he dies of bleeding.
Even though I might not be a psychiatrist I can now see why Brendan completely hates the school and the people in it. But to actually wnat to torture the people in them? This would be considered very high in the evil scale that Mason has in his blog. Is teasing and bullying the reason why some teens become so violent and make them commit evil acts? I hope not, because so far I have seen so many good people being teased badly and it would scare me if they wanted to commit evil acts on other people.
