The View From Saturday Sparknotes

Imagine you are a person with no friends to support you through your tough times and you try to push through those things to be courageous. In the book The View from Saturday by E.L Konigsburg, she tells of the courageous deeds that Nadia, Noah, Ethan,and Julian do. We should learn from these characters as they go through and face these tough challenges. The souls are in the same class with a teacher who is paraplegic. QThe souls try to help the teacher out, Mrs. Olinski, as much as possible because the students in their class bully her. The souls try to speak up for Mrs.Olinski and protect her from the harmful bullies. Would you be that friend where you help people out through their tough times or will you try to maintain your popularity level, to not being laughed at or bullied at, being teacher’s pet,? This courageous act should remembered as when a similar situation happens anywhere we should react the same way the souls did.
As Konigsburg mentioned in the story, Julian’s book bag was taken by Hamilton Knapp and written on “ I am a ass”. Julian did not cry or tell the teachers but took it into his own hands, writing a different quote “ I am a passenger on spaceship earth”, the next day. Would you have courage to do what Julian did or let them keep at it? I would be a bit scared and mad at the same time. We should always know how to stand up for ourselves if someone is bullying you, without having to start a fight, like