Identify and analyze social problems and issues in your independent reading books. What is the problem? Who is affected and how? What are the causes and effects? Possible solutions? Give specific examples.
In my book Deadly Little Secret By Laurie Faria Stolarz the social issue that I think is most obvious is bullying. The reason why I think that the social issue is bullying is because the kids at Camelia’s school bully Ben. The reason why Ben gets bullied is because he allegedly murdered his girlfriend in the town that he used to live in but he wasn’t convicted of anything so he didn’t go to jail. At his new school everybody makes fun of him and leave nasty notes taped to his locker. Ben doesn’t really do anything about him being bullied because he has the confidence to know that he’s better than all of them and there just immature. Ben thinks that there immature because they bully him because of a rumour its not really a fact that he murdered his girlfriend it was something that didn’t happen but people still believe because hes not “normal”.
One example of when he gets bullied is when a group of kids change the sign above the school mascot “polly Piranha” and change it to. “ Freetown High, Home to the Piranhas” to “ Freetown High, Home of the convicted murderer”(Pg 165) this is a form of bullying because their targeting ben and he’s done nothing wrong to any of them to lead them to believe that he was an actual murderer.
Some possible solutions are that the kids that are quick to penalize Ben for something that they aren’t even sure if weather or not he did or not should do their research to find out the full story. Or they could just ask Ben if he did it or not and explain it to them if they want to the truth the best person to get it from would be Ben.
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