Dear Noelle McCarthy,
In the article, ‘Being different will only result into tears’, you make a number of great points. For instance, the way you are informing the readers how some people are weaker than others. You also advise them into ‘making friends’ and to ‘stick together’ if they want to avoid bullying.
You describe school as ‘a concrete jungle’. That depends on how the school environment is. If the teachers are all ignorant and careless, the school will turn out to be a jungle, but if the teachers are active and punctual, the school will be normal.
In the fourth paragraph of your article, you recommend that ‘It is better to blend in’. I truly do not believe this, because blending in with the crowd is lifeless. For instance, what if everyone is wearing the same coloured clothing, each person has the same car and everybody walking around with the same phone. The world would just look flat, but this isn’t happening: each individual on this planet is different, wearing unique clothes and having different belongings. If everyone were all the same, the world would just be blob of grey.
Towards the end of paragraph four, you state that ‘sticking together is one of the few survival strategies’. On this, I mostly disagree to your point. Sticking together is a great thing, because as a group you can come up with a lot of ideas for survival. Let me revisit your title, ‘being different will only result into tears’. If you stick together, new ideas are going to be raised. Isn’t thinking of an idea being different?
At a point, where you say that you are being ‘teased and taunted’ (this is great use of alliteration) and you ‘escaped it by making friends’, I highly agree with you that making friends will get to the bottom of bullying. Friends are tremendously important, especially making a group of friends, I think. Making friends means that you are safe from getting ‘targeted’. At the end of the article, you instruct