Preview

Bullying In John Bell Clayton's Short Story 'The White Circle'

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
257 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Bullying In John Bell Clayton's Short Story 'The White Circle'
Bullying gone very wrong.

Can you imagine bullying someone until they try to kill you? This is exactly what Anvil does in the short story “The White Circle” by John Bell Clayton. In the story there are two boys named Tucker and Anvil Their problems escalate quickly and eventually Tucker tries to kill Anvil. Anvil is more at fault because he bullied tucker way too much First off Anvil bullied Tucker first. At the end of 1st page of the story it says from Tucker's point of view “He suddenly cocked back his arm and cracked me on the temple with a half eaten apple.” This shows as seen as Tucker confronted Anvil in the tree Anvil chose to take the first shot and bullied Tucker. Next off Anvil doesn't explain why he stole the

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    The novel, “The Bully Boys” by Eric Walters chapters 15-18 continues about a farm boy named Thomas who rides alongside James FitzGibbon as a companion due to the fact the Americans are hunting him down. First, FitzGibbon is hit by a musket ball and is injured. Thomas needs to defend FitzGibbon from getting hit again so, Thomas kills 1 soldier, badly wounds 1 while the third one escaped. The injured soldier tells Thomas to deliver a letter to his wife and kids because he thinks he is close to death. Thomas keeps thinking about the man he killed because once you have killed a man, it will stay in your memory for ever. Then, Laura Secord, a loyal British subject, who has walked from Queenston comes to warn FitzGibbon about how the Americans are…

    • 258 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The world is filled with many forms of cruelty. One of these forms is bullying, no matter the side of bullying one has experienced it is something most people can relate to. In her essay, White Lies, Erin Murphy explores the effects bullying can have within in a person. The mother in Murphy’s essay should not have participated in helping her daughter lie her way out of bullying. Although the mother’s intentions were good, she is ultimately hurting her daughter in teaching her to pay her way out of bullying instead of confronting the situation.…

    • 669 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Bullying Chapter Summary

    • 527 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Chapter one, “Concerned Cultivation and the accomplishment of Natural Growth,”, we enter the lives of families who are living in fairly different financial situations. First introduced are two families; known as the Tallingers and Williams. It is undeniable that both families enjoy keeping themselves busy, and take it very seriously. As introduced, white fourth grader Garrett Tallinger, seems to keep himself pretty busy in his everyday lifestyle. Soccer is one of the many activities that Garrett is involved with. His parents help balance his everyday activities while also doing the same for Garrett's brothers. This happens while the parents also take charge of their own responsibilities. We are next introduced to the Wiliams. They believe themselves to be a developing family with the similar hectic schedule filled with activities for kids as well a the parents. Both families have an active…

    • 527 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Bullying is described as the use superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants. Within the short stories,” The White Circle” by John Bell Clayton,” The Day I Followed” by Eric Luper, and” Bully on the Ledge” by Kurtis Scaletta,someone has to overcome the obstacles of being bullied, or the bully themselves, and admittedly regretting it in the end. The common thread in these three short stories is to think about your decisions before you make them a reality and end up regretting them in the cessation of everything.…

    • 748 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Bullying can drive a person to behave outside of their character. The short story, “The White Circle” by John Bell Clayton, supports this claim. For example, Anvil bullies Tucker and other children. This had caused them to act out of their own character. At school Anvil had shoves smaller boys down. Anvil does this to see the boys crash into the ground with fright on their faces. This became the foundation of how Tucker feels about Anvil. He didn’t despise him at the time after seeing those incidents, but then Tucker extends kindness to Anvil, and Anvil reacts by throwing rocks at him all the way home. Consequently, Tucker now has no soft emotions concerning Anvil. Another example, in the story of when bullying caused Tucker to act outside…

    • 313 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Carson Mcculler Sucker

    • 856 Words
    • 4 Pages

    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.”…

    • 856 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Bully In Of Mice And Men

    • 1114 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Steinbeck uses the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns as a foundation for the book.…

    • 1114 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    BSHS 325 Bullying Report

    • 845 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Bullying has become an ongoing issue due to the lack of knowledge on it or the lack of care for the situation. Bullying can lead to many different things such as physical injury, social problems, emotional problems, and even death. It has become a very high risk situation inside children and adolescent age group. With bullying being such a high risk matter studying it will only help understand and find a solution to the issue at hand, which is to help save lives and protect are youth. Many people have experience some kind of bullying and many have watch some form of it but most do not understand or know that it is bullying they see.…

    • 845 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Bullied- a Film Response

    • 822 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Starting in seventh grade Jamie Nabozny was bullied almost daily. He was hit punched, kicked, and called names. He told the principle who said he would get help, but nothing changed. By the end of seventh grade Jamie tried to commit suicide by swallowing pills. Jamie returned to middle school for eighth grade and was cornered in the bathroom on the first day back. His mother immediately demanded a meeting with the bullies and their mothers to try to settle the bullying. The principle blamed Jamie for being openly gay and said boys will be boys. None of the bullies were punished.…

    • 822 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The White Circle

    • 515 Words
    • 2 Pages

    with Anvil, Anvil starts throwing rocks at Tucker while they walk home. Anvils even takes all…

    • 515 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    As a few second passed, Sylvia thought thoroughly about what she was going to say. “ In my opinion, the white schools have more right and freedom, and they have the new version of everything. If any person wants to go to that kind of school, why shouldn’t they?” she stated while her face turned red.…

    • 247 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Bullying is a major problem a high school student deals with at least one time through out the four years of high school. Bullying is aggressive behavior to others.…

    • 594 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Persuasive Essay

    • 566 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Bullying can have a huge impact on someone’s life and we might not even know how hard they are taking it. The name calling, paper throwing, rumor spreading, and…

    • 566 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    History is full of bullies and bullying. Since the earliest of times people have been bullied, and a chain reaction has been caused, leading to its spread throughout society. Violence has been all throughout history, and violence is a form of bullying. As much violence as there is, it doesn’t stop.…

    • 421 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Introduction of Bullying

    • 520 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Bullying is a pattern of aggressive behavior meant to hurt or cause discomfort to another person. The behavior can be habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power.…

    • 520 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays