Please Stop Laugh At Me
By:Jordan Stemple
Summary
Please stop laughing at me was about this girl named Jodie Blanco that got bullied starting in 5th grade. She is a very nice girl that is bullied for standing up for what is right and not letting others get bullied. She moves schools to try and start fresh but no matter where she goes she gets bullied. She has been beaten up and threatened and made so upset that one day she grabs a knife and cut her face. She tells her teachers and parents but they say to toughen up and it's a part of being a kid.
“What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my “friends” had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain,” page 128Character Analysis
Jodee Blanco is the main character that is bullied for all of middle school and high school she is a kind girl and stands up for what she feels is right. She has one breast larger than the other and needs surgery to fix it All of the friends that Jodee made through most of her years in school tricked her and made bullying worse for her. She met a boy named Niko in Greece and he accepts her even with her physical flaw, he helps her keep confidence to make it through the last years of High school.
" I keep asking myself why did this happen to my body?" page 189
Conflict/Resolution
"It must have been so hard for you , that's probably why you you're successful now because you had to overcome so much, i'm sorry." page 260
Theme
Textual Evidence
the quote i found most powerful is: "You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become."
Book Review
Citations
"Bullying by Peers Has Effects Later in Life." CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 06 May 2016.
ClevverMovies. "Bully Trailer Official 2012 [1080 HD]." YouTube. YouTube, 16 Mar. 2012. Web. 06 May 2016.