Elliot's Expose

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• Answer the questions in complete sentences and use proper English (restrain from using MSN chat style of writing).
• Use evidence from the novel to support your answer and include page numbers.
• When commenting to your peers, be respectful in your language and about their responses. It is okay to disagree, but do it in a polite manner.

When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the KidNet, he includes the following quote in his letter.

"I think people ought to realize that stuff like this goes on every day…The rest of you are all part of it-because you let it go on and maybe you think it's funny, or you think it only happens to geeky outsiders and kids who are smaller or fatter or skinnier or don't have so many friends or so much money as you. So tell me-what happens when you don't have so many friends one day, or you don't have so much money, or something bad happens to you?" (91-92)


Blog Question:
What is the message is he trying to get across to his classmates? (6pts)

Two Peer Responses (4 pts)

Answer

1) The message that Elliot is trying to get across to his classmates is that, treat everyone the way you would wanted to be treated and to be more empathetic towards others. He is also trying to let his classmates know that how much pain, insults, embarrassments and loneliness he had to go through and even though his classmates saw everything happening, they didn't really care about making a change in what was happening. (pg.92) In addition to letting Elliot's classmates know how much he has gone through and what they could have done to help him, Elliot tells his classmates that there is a Bully Lab, which is interested in peoples true stories in Darkland school (Parkland school) This happens on page.93.

Revealer's Role Reversal

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Blog Question: After the Bully Lab was renamed, the Revealers, and the stories of the three Darkland students were released and well received by the student body, Elliot wanted to publish Russell’s narrative about Richie punching Russell in the face.
1) Why was Russell so opposed to the idea (pg. 110)? Explain. (4 pts)
2) What is happening to the relationship between Russell and Richie. (3 pts)
3) Two Peer Comments (4 pts each)

Answers

1) Q: Why was Russell so opposed to the idea (pg. 110)? Explain. (4 pts)
When Elliot suggested to put the story in "The Revealer" Russell refused because first, he thought Richie had changed and that he had become kind of different then he used to be. This was because Richie had said that Russell could ask him questions and when Burke and Blanchette were threatening him (on pg. 96 and 97) Richie came and scared them away. Also overloooking Richie's change Russell was also kind of scared that Richie might beat him up for putting his story in The Revealer and if Russell would have put his story in The Revealer, everyone would probably be able to geuss who it was.

2) Q: What is happening to the relationship between Russell and Richie. (3 pts)
What's happening between Richie and Russell's relationship is that Richie seems to have a difference in his behavior which is making Russell change his thoughts of Richie. Some changes for example are; Richie scaring Blanchette and Burke away when they were threatening Russell and Richie also said to Russell that he could ask Richie questions. (These incidents occur on pg.96 abd pg.97)

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