elliots exspose for revealers

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• Answer the questions in complete sentences and use proper English (restrain from using MSN chat style of writing).
• Use evidence from the novel to support your answer and include page numbers.
• When commenting to your peers, be respectful in your language and about their responses. It is okay to disagree, but do it in a polite manner.

When Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots and sends it out over the KidNet, he includes the following quote in his letter.

"I think people ought to realize that stuff like this goes on every day…The rest of you are all part of it-because you let it go on and maybe you think it's funny, or you think it only happens to geeky outsiders and kids who are smaller or fatter or skinnier or don't have so many friends or so much money as you. So tell me-what happens when you don't have so many friends one day, or you don't have so much money, or something bad happens to you?" (91-92)


Blog Question:
What is the message is he trying to get across to his classmates? (6pts)

In his letter to the student body, Elliot writes about his experience with the Jock Rots. At the end of his letter he goes on to state an important message. Elliot's message to his peers is that everyone in the student body is responsible for Parkland school's bullying problem. "The rest of you are all part of it - because you let it go on," he writes. (92)

I think he is trying to get the word out that bullying is a big problem at parkland middle school. He talks very strongly about how he feels about what the jock rots did to him. and I agree with what he says so people do let bullying just goes on and on. On page 92 when Elliot is talking about the bully lab I think it wasn't accidental or had no meaning at all I think he was on to something that was completely his idea. I think he was making a big contribution to is community.