“To what extent is Avalon responsible for her being a cyber-bully victim?”
Destroying Avalon is a book written by Kate McCaffrey. It is a book that reflects realistic attitudes and values in society. This is shown through the actions made by Avalon and the other people involved in her being cyber bullied. Bullying has been an existing problem for many years and Destroying Avalon is a book that helps reflects the effect of it on life which is shown through Avalon’s story. Avalon was a normal teenager, having normal friends and quite a peaceful life but that changed when her mum got a job in the metropolitan area and she moved. This is where her life became miserable due to her being bullied. She became a victim of cyber bullying which started on the first day of going to her new school. I think that it is she is partly responsible and partly not responsible for her being cyber bullied.
I partly agree that it is her own fault for being cyber bullied because she could have stopped it the first day they started bullying her. Instead of telling someone about it she decided to keep quite instead and she didn’t say anything to anyone. I think that she did the wrong choice because as she could see it didn’t stop. It kept going. Every day the bullying got worse and she didn’t want to do anything about it. Cause if she did want to do something about it she would have done something to stop it. At least tell her parents and teachers. But she kept quiet, and she let the bullying get worse.
Also its her fault because she was the one that was too curios about reading the message she got even though she knew that it was an unknown number and it was anonymous. She could have at least showed her dad who was next to her in the car when she got the message but instead again she kept quiet. “I held the phone cupped in my hand so he couldn’t see the screen……It was like a warning sign…..”This is quoted by Avalon in the book. It shows that she did know