In final analysis, successful stories are the ones that incorporate all the elements and rhetorical devices to plot. To reiterate, the author and the director use actions/events and thoughts/conversations to develop the theme and further the importance of forgiveness. Actions/events reveals to the reader Tony’s condition and Roger’s point of view.  In addition, thoughts/conversations shows the reader Tony’s apology for bullying Roger and Roger’s past experiences as a child. It is safe to say that successful authors utilize techniques like thoughts/conversations and actions/events to create a story worth reading and to engage readers, like me! 

Believe it or not, the actions of a person deeply affect the decisions they make and how they deal with conflicts. Characters, just like the people in “The Bully” are affected by their actions/events and it shows their true character. Likewise, “The Bully”, By Roger Dean Kiser, uses thoughts/conversations to show the feelings of the characters and how they respond to events and conflicts. Very early on, it becomes clear to the reader that the author and the director use actions/events and thoughts/conversations to develop the theme and further the importance of forgiveness.

To commence, the author of “The Bully” uses actions/events because this literary element along with thoughts/conversations and can showcase the importance of forgiveness as the universal message. To summarize, in “The Bully” the main character’s name is Roger and he walks into a diner. In doing so a couple who happened to be right beside the door noticed him. “I said as I reached down and grabbed him around the waist and carefully raised him up into the passenger seat of the van.”, is evidence from the text to support my thesis. As an illustration, he reached over and grabbed both of his hands and squeezed them tightly, which furthers my citation. 

Similarly, after the incident the couple walk back to their car and prepare to head off. Roger walks over and asks what the problem is as he sees the two. The directors makes it so that the two appear to be having a friendly conversation, and Roger hands Tony his phone number so that the two of them can catch up later. 

 For instance, the two tell each other to take care before Tony and his wife drive off. To bring to light, these two sources both are forms of the literary element, “Actions/events”. Furthermore, both sources and citations support the fact that the universal message for “The Bully” is forgiveness. Thus, the author uses actions/events to showcase the importance of forgiveness.

To commence, the author of “The Bully” uses actions/events because this literary element along with thoughts/conversations and can showcase the importance of forgiveness as the universal message. To summarize, in “The Bully” the main character’s name is Roger and he walks into a diner. In doing so a couple who happened to be right beside the door noticed him. “I said as I reached down and grabbed him around the waist and carefully raised him up into the passenger seat of the van.”, is evidence from the text to support my thesis. As an illustration, he reached over and grabbed both of his hands and squeezed them tightly, which furthers my citation. 

Similarly, after the incident the couple walk back to their car and prepare to head off. Roger walks over and asks what the problem is as he sees the two. The directors makes it so that the two appear to be having a friendly conversation, and Roger hands Tony his phone number so that the two of them can catch up later.  For instance, the two tell each other to take care before Tony and his wife drive off. To bring to light, these two sources both are forms of the literary element, “Actions/events”. Furthermore, both sources and citations support the fact that the universal message for “The Bully” is forgiveness. Thus, the author uses actions/events to showcase the importance of forgiveness.

Equally as important, the author uses “thoughts/conversations” to showcase the importance of forgiveness in the text and develop the theme. To summarize, Roger is greeted by Tony’s wife as he sits down to order some food and asked if he remembers Roger. Tony at that moment could not remember anything about a person named Roger and politely said no. 

The author says goodbye to Roger and his wife, “I hope he calls me sometime. He will be the only friend that I have from my high school days.”. This illustrates, “Give me a call sometimes. We'll do lunch," I told him. We both laughed.”. Similarly, Rogers meets up with Roger and they talk to each other. Tony asks Roger if him being in a wheelchair was how he felt being bullied by Tony back then, and Roger says that at least Tony has someone to help push him around and love him. 

After Tony and his wife leave Roger thinks to himself, “I was glad to have made the choice today to show kindness to Tony, instead of returning cruelty to the bully. “. To bring to light, these two citations easily relate to the literary element of “thoughts/conversations”. Furthermore, they work to help develop the theme and further showcase forgiveness. As a result, the literary element “thoughts/conversations” along with the other element work together to show the importance of forgiveness. 

These were two of my ela paragraphs that I spent the past 2 days working on for my Spring Break work, tell me how I did . 

I am going to continue talking about what I did after the Line Friends store even though that was probably the best part of the day. So basically, my dad took my sister and I and we just continued to talk and walk all around New York until eventually we went to the Uniqlo store with we found. It was probably bigger than the one that we usually go to which is in another part of New York. When we entered the store believe me, it definitely felt a lot bigger than the other one, or that was probably just because this store has a giant bridge that connects the left and the right tops of the store and it has elevators that travel in between. 

You literally can't even enter the middle of the store unless you enter the elevator and it's honestly so cool. We didn't buy anything from this store because I didn't find anything that I liked and to be honest the clothes didn't really look that cool. Afterwards, we entered this really cool nike store that I had never been too before and they had so many clothes, it's not even funny. The building was even bigger than the Uniqlo because they had like 5 floors in total.

 I remember seeing a store like that somewhere in Korea because I watched a youtube video about it. on the first floor it was just a bunch of art pieces and statues and mannequins displaying awards and new clothes and whatnot. On the third floor was a ton of sneakers and shirts that matched those sneakers. And then on the second floor it was just a ton of clothes that ranged from basketball, to soccer, and even football. 

On the fourth floor it was really just a ton of more clothes but these clothes were specifically for men. And finally, on the top floor was all women, or at least that's the way that it looked for me. I didn't get anything even though there was a really cool that I wanted my father to get. But he insisted on taking me somewhere next time, and promised to get me sneakers before the end of spring break which I am kinda excited for but at the same time worried because I don't know if he's gonna get those himself or he's gonna actually take me and my sister to the store.

 I think he's going to try to find the store that he couldn't find before which I totally understand. I think that after the Nike store we visited the Gucci store which wasn't. great experience because there was absolutely nothing we could afford and my father found out the hard way how much it must've costed by looking at a pair of shoes that were 600. And then we went into trump tower and I had a fun time looking around, even though it smelled horrible at the cafe for some reason. our last stop was the Apple store before we just left the city and went back home. 

Yesterday I had so much fun at New York even though towards the end it was just pain and suffering but the beginning parts were honestly a ton of fun. So when I woke up I remembered the toy dad was going to off and he told me and my sister that we were going to be going to New York cause he was going to take me shopping. I was so happy with this and I immediately went into the shower a got ready for the day. 

After the hectic pain of getting into the train and walking out of the station into New York the first we did was start walking in a direction that I was all too familiar with. My dad was trying to take me to a place that we had never gone before, yesterday I was gonna buy stuff at Newport Mall with the money that my mom gave me for the trip but my dad told me that there was nothing there and that I should wait for today. However, we spent about 30 minutes trying to find the store and there was just no point. 

Eventually, we just went to times square and were looking at everything around us. until, I saw one store that really caught my attention. It was the Line Friends store! I had never bene to this store in my entire life and it actually just opening in New York so u bet I was pretty excited. I knew that they had BTS stuff and for those that have been reading my posts u know that I am a huge fan of BTS the k-pop group and Ive always wanted some of their march. But to know that I can have some of their march in the form of a pillow or a sweater or just any type of collectible is really amazing!

 So with the money that I had gotten I went into the store and looked to find something that I would enjoy wearing. And it just so happened that I went into the back of the store and found a ton of stuffed animals and plushies and pillows to choose from. And there were life size versions of all the characters and I took pictures of them and with them. It was honestly so amazing, when it came to choosing what I wanted I had decided then and there that I wanted a pillow just because all the sweaters were bad quality and just didn't look good cause they had zippers. 

I don't remember the last zipped sweater I wore just because I love hoodies, which they didn't have. So when deciding which pillow to choose from I chose the alpaca because it looked super cute and this one girl in my class has the cookie one and the alien. Which btw also look super cute but the alpaca was so cuddly and it came with an amazing zip bag that I will forever cherish. Yesterday was honestly a great day and I have more to talk about next time. 

Today's post I just going to be really random because I didn't go outside today or yesterday or frankly the whole last week. I want to go to the mall or New York with my mom and do some shopping, or just go somewhere and watch a  movie but of course I can't because she's always busy. But anyways, I guess the first thing that I want to talk about is relating to K-Pop. 

So on Thursday when I had music class with a couple of my friends before lunch they invited me over, and then there was a group of people who were really mad at me. This was because of the fact that I had left the dance that they were going to do for the dance. I feel really bad because I really did like that dance and I wanted to do it but I felt as though Soccer practice was wya more important focusing my career on that because I did wanna become a professional soccer player when I are up. 

Or at least that was my dream but after the soccer game I had a little while ago I don't think that I can fully fill that goal. of course I was goalie and that isn't exactly the position that I wanna play because I don't have a lot of power in my legs. I'm more of a technique type of guy and I like to just rely on little tricks to pass the ball or score. The goalie is supposed to have lots of power on their legs because they need to kick the ball really far away, and I just am not that type of person. 

Also, sometimes I am just really afraid of the ball, when it's goalie though that's when it really get's terrifying. My coach told me that I needed to play real aggressive and get in a lot more when it was in the ring and I did exactly as told. The next time that the ball game I literally threw my whole body against it and I am happy that I did because my coach was proud of me. Or at least for that one time, afterwards he looked kinda disappointed and sad. 

This was the message that my teacher wrote a coupe hours after the game:

In spite of not winning, I do believe there were many good things that happened on the field for us that we can build on. The effort was incredible and the team never gave up and was very supportive of each other. The crowd at the game was impressive and thanks to all those that were able to be there and made it a great environment. I do want to single out one player, our goalie for today Rinchen. He is not our regular goalie but because our other experienced goalies were unable to play today Rinchen stepped up and volunteered to play the position he was not as comfortable with. He made some good saves and kept us in the game for a time. We appreciate Rinchen trully taking one for the team. 

When I woke up it was around 6:30, I was so surprised that I didn't hear the alarm, my sister turned it off when's he heard it and then literally went back to bed so I was just sleeping for an extra 30 minutes. But sleeping for only another 30 minutes isn't bad and it's not like I missed the bus anything so I was good. I immediately checked my phone for any notifications and then went into the shower and played some music so I could listen to it in the background while I am running the water. 

Once I am done with my shower I blow dryer my hair and it became crazy again. I can't really style it as easily because I cut my nails the day before and it makes it really hard. And also because it was pretty windy outside so my hair was like rlly fluffy and whatnot. When I got to school I noticed that like almost half of the class wasn't even here because none of them bothered to come on the last day, and I can totally understand why they would do that. 

I mean no one wants to do work on the last day before school ends so that's why a couple of them just didn't go. Anyways, it's not like they missed anything. For music our teacher just let us watch a movie and it was pretty chill, but afterwards it was just boring. well, I mean during ELA our teacher let us watch a movie as well. 

And it was "Avengers: Infinity War" which I loved because I just like superhero movies a ton even though I don't watch a ton of them on youtube and whatnot cause usually they cost money, and I don't bother to play the video games because I've started to lose interest into video games and just focused more on talking to my friends and school. 

The movie was honestly really good and I bet that everyone who was here enjoyed it just as much as I did. During the middle of the class there was an announcement that said that all classes were going to be going home early because of the fact that it was spring break and we were all delighted. So after class everyone immediately got their book packs and just sat waiting for the teachers to call buses. 

Today's post is going to be about today because it was. half day and on top of that I didn't really do anything related to soccer because the game was yesterday and that wasn't the most fun. Actually, this post today is going to become about the soccer game yesterday because I am still really sad about that. So, when I went on my phone after leaving the game I got a bunch of different text messages from people who were watching the game and then people who were just on my soccer team on the sidelines also told me that I did good and that there was nothing to worry about. 

Then, finally there was a couple of people who didn't say I did good but they said that I shouldn't worry because it's my first game and that it wasn't exactly fair cause this team already played a game and they were good. I went ahead, and agreed with them and said thank you and whatnot even though I felt really bad. Until finally one of my best friends who was in the soccer team told me that I did really well and when he saw me crying he felt really bad and I felt even worse because I made him cry and that is just unforgivable. 

So I wiped my tears away and grabbed my book pack before I went out. There another 2 kids from my class hugged me, I think that one of the girls in the yearbook who is in my class has a picture of me crying and everyone crying and I think that this is going to be one of the moments in the yearbook, the beloved soccer team's first game and it was a loss. And then it just shows that I really messed I up for the team no matter what they said. Today at school I walked into school and I got bombarded by people telling me that I did good job as goalie and that I shouldn't sweat it. 

Of course I had the right to feel bad and I did but laughed it off because they all were genuine and great friends of mine so I didn't wanna seem like I was joking. When I go to school tomorrow I am going to thank my gym teacher for writing the email which was really nice, he wrote an email yesterday talking about how he was sorry that there were a couple people who didn't get to play at all and there were also a couple of people who only played for like 5 minutes. 

The reason was because he wanted the people were playing originally to get their rhythm and only take small breaks in between. I can understand his message, but then he wrote at the bottom that he wanted to single out one player which was me and he talked about how it wasn't fair and that I took one for the team by volunteering to play goalie no matter if it was my strong suit or not. 

Today’s soccer practice was like “kind of fun”, so first of all, when I walked out of the school the gates to where my soccer teammates and I usually leave from to enter the field were blocked so we had to take a totally different pathway that although is farther than the other alternative looked kind of sketchy because if some adults caught us walking this way they would’ve thought we were trying to leave the school.

When I finally reached the field it was a bit of a struggle because of the fact that I was wearing sweatpants instead of shorts but like whatever. I did two laps instead of 3 but my teacher didn’t notice so I was good. We passed the ball a little bit before my coach told everyone to come and get in a circle. He was telling everyone their numbers and was handing out uniforms.

He was asking if anyone wanted shorts and whatnot but I was pretty sure I was okay because I always wear the same shorts and no one really cares. Plus, almost all of the girls wear like leggings so they are the ones that really need shorts. After everyone got their shirts, I am happy to say that my shirt fits perfectly and is exactly the right size. Then everyone went their own separate coach and we all did different things to practice.

I am happy to say that my coach was probably the best one when it came to laughing and understanding my mistakes because otherwise I probably would’ve gotten in trouble. When we were all practicing kicking the ball I went ahead and encouraged everyone and told them god job and “Yeah you can do it!”.

I was being really encouraging and some of my friends were laughing. Then, I had all of the balls and I lost every single one of them because it was windy and everyone was dying of laughter. Believe me, it was a struggle to get them back and I’m surprised I did. When everything was done we went ahead and  

So today I was kinda stupid in terms of what I did. But let me start from the beginning so u have good context and background information. So once school was finally over I rushed into the bathroom because I have actual shorts and soccer socks to get into. But tomorrow I need to in addition wear some type of shin guards that I will definitely not enjoy wearing because the ones that I have are like really short and small. 

But anyways, I did my two laps and then went ahead and passed the ball with a couple of my friends. It was really fun but afterwards we just continued trying to dribble past each other and 1v1 before my teacher called us. This is where the stupid thing that I did comes into play. My teacher asked if anyone wanted to become goalie and me being the daring person that I am raised my hand and said that I did want to be goalie. 

Now obviously this was going to become a very big mistake because when I played goalie I felt extremely uncomfortable. The problem, was that all of the people who were actually playing goalie couldn't play because they either had bad behavior, weren't doing good academically, or didn't hand in their medical which meant they couldn't play the game. 

The thing that makes me a bit confused is the fact that Mr. Waldron my coach told me on the first day of tryouts that I did really good as goalie yet for some reason he didn't want me playing goalie which really confused me, and instead picked a ton of other people. I think he knew that I was a fast runner and more agile and better with the ball than a couple of other people. 

But anyway, I really hope that this game that I have tomorrow is going to be the only and last time I ever goalie for a ball because that was just extremely atrocious. I blocked a penalty kick and everyone was like "YESS" but I was kind of scared because I almost failed blocking it and everyone was telling me that I could do it and they believed in me so if I failed it would've been horrible. That was my soccer practice for today it was fun I guess. 

I am going to be talking about Soccer Practice which was on Friday because that was the only fun thing that happened this week, all the soccer practices that I had this week were fun but this one was probably the best. So, as soon as school ended I went ahead and headed straight for Math class and then grabbed my belongings and sat down. I talked to a couple of my friends for about 10 minutes before it turned to 3:45 and I said bye to all of them before heading to the bathroom. 

My principal of the school went ahead and announced that the people in sports could only leave their class to go change at 3:45 yet when I went into he bathroom there were already 4 other kids who were almost done changing and they probably came into the bathroom at around 3:40 which is not allowed but no one really cares. After finishing I quickly ran to the field in hopes of finishing my laps. 

There were three girls in front of me who refused to run a third lap so they just walked off after the second lap and grabbed a ball. While, my coach was talking to another one of those kids the three girls ran away and tried to look innocent. Me being the great person that I am decided not to snitch on them because I'm a good Bhudda, but they know what they did and deserve to be punished through the force of an extra 3 laps! 

Once everyone completed their own laps my teacher called everyone in and we did our regular warm ups which consisted of a bunch of leg exercises and other "fun things". And then it was time to do the actual scrimmage, our teacher separated us into different teams and told us where to go. 

Of course, I wasn't exactly happy with the idea that my team was going to be going against the team that wasn't as good as us because that just meant it was not going to be fair but believe me I regretted those words because the game wasn't exactly the most fun. I had to run a lot because the forwards did a good job of trying to get the ball away from us and score. When Soccer practice was finally over I had a great time telling everyone good job and then walking to my dad's car as he told us we were going to be going home. 

Today’s soccer practice was fun i guess.I wasn’t writing this whole week because I was in soccer and usually my dad tells me that I don’t have to do my writing but for some reason today my dad is like, “Oh you need to do your writing”, which makes me mad because you don’t just randomly change something and then expect me to not question him about it. So yeah, I still don’t have shin guards because the ones that my teacher gave me are honestly horrible and I really need to get new ones for myself, but basically

I guess after that I have been having a nice time.

In soccer my teacher told us that we were going to finally be making the new soccer teams and I was so excited slash nervous because there was an A and a B team and both teams play a ton of games. And then there are the players who play on both the A and the B teams and I don’t really understand why they do that but its cool. I’m kind of jealous that they get to play every single game but at the sam time I’m not because that just means that the players are not going to be able to have a rest and they will be pressured into more work and whatnot.

There are a ton of people that go ahead and cheat their laps at the beginning of practice by only doing 2 instead of 3 and Mr. Waldron never seems to notice or care. I am going to be honest, sometimes I do the same thing and I only do two but today I decided to be the better person and do 3. No obviously, I regretted it once I finished because I was kind of starting to sweat and that is a definite no no for me.

Yesterday, I forgot to bring my cleats, my shorts, shirt, and long socks so I was stuck wearing the regular uniform and it was honestly a horrible experience for me. On Monday, my teacher said that he is going to be giving us our soccer uniforms and I am really worried that it will not fit me, because I have a pretty big head and that is just not acceptable.

Sometimes when we do scrimmages I just put on a large because my head is so big, and it doesn’t matter if the actual shirt doesn’t fit me as long as I can fit my head in. One of my friends doesn’t have the head problem but he is just so tall that almost every shirt will not fit him, so he just wraps it around his neck and we both think it’s kinda funny. But yup, that was pretty much a wrap of my week for soccer. I don’t bother to talk about the actual day anymore cause it’s kinda same and boring.

It is about two parents who are living in a society where everyone is equal in terms of talent, ability to accomplish certain things, and skills. Anyone who is considered too beautiful or handsome has to wear a mask. Anyone who is too strong has to wear weights on their chest, anyone who is too smart has to wear earphones that make a large beeping noise every 20 seconds to prevent them from thinking above and beyond. Hazel and George’s son “Harrison Bergeron” was taken away and put in custody for over 6 years until he escaped and walked in on a ballerina performance. 

He went ahead and undid all of his handicaps (which there were a lot because he was above average in many ways) and they made sure that everyone knew that he was going to blow up the whole theater if they left, the audience continued to watch as he proved his triumphs. Until finally, he chose an empress from the ballerinas who were cowering in fear behind him and they both undid their handicaps and started to dance in front of everyone until Diana Moon Clampers killed them with a shotgun and the whole audience forgot it ever happened.

This is a very powerful story because it talks about the future of society and how being equal is taken to a whole new level, in terms of talent! Our main protagonist whose name is Harrison is above average in so many ways (intelligence, strength, looks, etc). 

The government is trying everything they can to lower him down and make him equal to everyone else but because of this he goes ahead and walks around looking like a whole pile of trash because of all the heavy pieces of metal that are attached to his body so that he isn't as strong and fast as he would like to be. They also make him wear certain thinks like the earphones which are horrible for their ears and make them extremely vulnerable. 

Also some more background information, Diana actually seems to be average because otherwise why else would she be able to run as the person who is in charge of everyone's handicaps? And finally, I have a very dire question. I just don't understand why the president isn't doing anything about this, and if he is the president he must be above average, otherwise that country is not in the right place.