Summary: Teens Speak Out On Violence

The book, I wrote on four walls: Teens Speak out on Violence, can be related to every person especially teenagers. The book tells that everyone’s lives are not different from others. Like Claire, Sue, Janice, Don and other more. Claire’s childhood was hard, she had no social skills, she was unsure about herself and she got bullied in her school. After reading her story, at first, I felt pity and bad for her, with all the experienced she met while growing up was so difficult. She went to different foster homes, she used drugs and went partying. However, Avril helped her out and fixed her life. She moved to Toronto to continue studying with her older sister, Amy. If I was there, I would consider Claire to be my friend because she needs a friend that will help her and cheer for her. This story makes me feel that I’m
Claire and I have the same problem in socializing. I also have low social skills just like her, when we went here in Canada, I struggled socializing with other people until now. If we’re talking about friends, I only have four people who I considered as a friend. I think because I liked to be alone made my social skills low and didn’t care about having a lot of friends. Her story reminds me of my one classmate at the Philippines, she got bullied when we were grade 7. I don’t even know why they hated her, even though I was there I didn’t help because I might also be bullied. But, they also stopped bullying her, and there was a group of girls who help her until grade 9. This also reminds me of my close friend that shared her story with us, her problem started when our school guards saw them drinking alcohol inside our classroom, they went to the principal’s office with their parents and got suspend. She was also caught her smoking cigarette in her room which made her parents mad. They took her phone, they stopped talking to her and also didn’t gave her money. When we knew her