analysis

analysis


In the movie Bully race, class, gender, or sexuality did not play a role in the kids’ lives at all. All the families in the movie look like they were middle class to lower middle class people. Their kids all still shared a common issue which was bullying. It didn’t matter whether they was black or white, male or female, gay or straight, or rich or poor.
The issues examined in this movie were Tyler was a loner and couldn’t stand big crowds. He wasn’t athletic so he would be the last to get picked in PE class. He had his head shoved into a locker and some kids told him to hang himself. Tyler was humiliated when some kids took his clothes while he was showering and they made him walk out of the shower naked, or when he would use the restroom they would come from behind and push him and make him urinate on his clothes. Alex felt like he belonged somewhere else. He would get punched in the jaw, be strangled, get his books knocked from his hands, and be stabbed with pencils. He wanted a friend or to fit in so much he basically started to accept the bullying. Kelby’s whole town changed towards her and her family once she came out about being gay. She liked to play basketball and was told she could earn a scholarship for it, but due to the kids around her they didn’t want to touch her or accept her forcing her to quit. She was not welcomed at church or the neighbor’s house. She even tried committing suicide three times. Jameya felt it was her against the world. She always had to face nine to ten people and listen to them call her dumb and stupid. It pushed her to the edge so that she took her mom’s gun on the school bus and threaten the kids on the bus with it. I mean even when she had the gun and told the bus driver all she did was said leave her alone and kept driving. Little Ty was picked on but he always kept a smile on his face. Eventually the bullying became too much for him that he took his own life. This caused his parents to start the Stand for the Silent...

Similar Essays