Bullying In John Bell Clayton's The White Circle

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