Revealers-Perspective My self as Elliot

Envision yourself as Russell, Elliot, or Catlina. Describe how you would feel and react to the bullies in the story.

Response: If I was in Elliot's situation I would first try and figure out solutions to the problem. Instead Elliot just ignored everyone and went on with his daily life(pg.18). I think that is a bad decision to make. If you don't react and just ignore what is happening around you, the people that are bothering you would think that it is okay to bother you because you don't do anything. That is what happened to Elliot and if I was Elliot I would have acted differently. If I was Elliot I would first try and figure out why he was being bothered. Then like Catalina said, I would slowly approach the problem(pg.38). If that didn't work and things got more complicated like on pg.59 where situations got out of hands when Eliiot was thrown off the bridge. When the situation gets to that kind of levels, I would and everyone should tell their parents. If things don't get that much out of hands, I would have courage and go up to them and tell them to stop. "I don't know what got into me, but i said, "You figure you can go pushing people around and that makes you so great. Is that all you can do, act like a tough guy? Is that it?"(pg.143) In this paragraph Russell stands up to his enemy. That takes a lot of courage. Something I wouldn't be able to do normally. But if I was Elliot and I got bullied like him, I would stand up to my enemy and tell him to stop.