Jodi Picoult Bullying Quotes

(2) Pick a scene in which you disagreed with how a character handled a situation/person and rewrite it in the way you think it should have happened. “As the gun fired, it ripped two stripes of her skin from the base of her thumb. Her hands jerked upward, numb, humming. The blood was black on Matt’s gray T-shirt. He stood for a moment, shocked, his hand over the wound in his stomach. She saw his mouth close around her name, but she couldn't hear it, her ears were ringing so loudly. Josie? and then he fell to the floor.” (Picoult 440) Although Matt, Josie Cormier’s boyfriend, was a jerk to her and others, no one should be killed. In this case, Josie took one of Peter's guns and shot Matt in the stomach which left Matt in shock before he died.
In Peter’s case, it is a deadly catastrophe. He is assaulted physically, verbally, and mentally in his twelve-year school life and developed a mind of committing suicide. Bullying is like a timer bomb, when it gets to an intolerable point, the bomb explodes. According to the book, Peter Houghton states, “In nursery school, when the teacher would bring out snacks, and one of them would pull out my chair so i’d fall down and everyone would crack up? Or in second grade, when they held my head down in the toilet and they flushed it over and over, just because they knew they could? Or that time they beat me up on the way home from school and i needed stitches?” (Picoult 134) This implies that Peter was bullied ever since he stepped into kindergarten because of his sensitiveness and timidity. He was constantly harassed by the popular kids and wasn't able to stand up for himself. The popular kids were much bigger and stronger than Peter, it was safer for him to wait till it was over. Peter also states, “They tell you to ignore it. They say they’ll be watching out to make sure it doesn't happen, but they never watch.” (Picoult 135) Peter told the teachers about his dilemma but they never did anything to help him and he felt