Carson Mcculler Sucker

One aspect of the human condition in the story “Sucker” by Carson McCullers shows how treating people poorly has negative effects on everyone. One major way of treating people poorly is bullying. The web page “stopbullying.gov” tells what bullying is. “Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids `who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.”
The web site stopbullying.org is all about bullying, it tells what it is how to help and who is affected. “These children engage in bullying behavior towards their peers. There are many risk factors that may contribute to the child's involvement in the behavior. Often, these students require support to change their behavior and address any other challenges that may be influencing their behavior.”(Stop bullying.org) As the web-article “Stopbullying.org” tells how individuals that bully have a bad behavior, the story “Sucker” shows how the main character Pete has problems and is basically a delinquent because of how he bullies his cousin Sucker. In the story Pete smokes cigarettes and at the end when sucker is bigger than him he get
We can see in the story that sucker is lonely when Pete says “It seemed to me he had always been a lonesome kid.”(McCullers 3) Pete tells how he remembers Sucker being lonesome and after he says this he says he felt bad. I think he felt bad because he was a lonesome kid also because the story doesn’t talk about him having friends either. Sucker experiences loneliness and he probably had other problems but the story is told from Pete’s point of view so we don’t know how Sucker feels. But the story never tells us if Pete is lonely or not. “Kids who are bullied are more likely to experience… increased feelings of sadness and loneliness...”