The Revealers
Blog Writing Topic

Blog response Instructions: Answer the questions in complete sentences, proper English and use examples from the novel whenever possible. Put page number after your examples. When writing comments to your peers, be respectful in your language and about their response. It is okay to disagree, but do it in a polite manner.

Blog Question: Is bullying a rite of passage of childhood and adolescence? Is it apart of the maturation process one needs to go through to reach adulthood? Explain. Mrs. Hogeboom brings up this topic on page 108.

No, bullying is not a rite of passage of childhood and adolescence. Even though you get bullied sometimes it is not always a part of your life. It can be a part of maturation sometimes because that is the time you learn to be independent and getting bullied might help sometimes by making you handle your own problems like some . Like Mrs.Hogeboom brought it up in page 108 that sometimes people think that they have so much power and they are popular that sometimes they use it for bullying or to get what they want.Like sometimes people ask for lunch chits and they don't give it back.And if this continually happens. She also says that this revealer paper has made her think so much that she liked it alot. Some people think that bullying is fun which is not because what if the bully is the next one in line to get bullied.
Almost every middle schooler is a victim or a bully or a bystander it never changes. In all the schools i have been there always is a bully, victim or a bystander. If you have experienced being a victim then you know how it feels to be a prey and that is how Russell feels.