Literary Essay for skin im by sharon g. flake

The book I was reading is called ”The Skin I’m In” by Sharon G. Flake it takes place mainly at McClinton middle school, she is a 7th grader  there. Maleeka is always gets bullied by this girl named char, john-john, and some other people.  Maleeka gets bullied for her good grades,  her home made clothes, and her brown skin. One main lesson I learned for ”the skin I’m in” is don’t judge someone by their appearance.

 

The author the details at the begging of the story when Maleeka said what people said about  how she had good grades, her home made clothes, and her dark brown. There is a boy named john-john that made a song about her ”Maleeka, maleeka-baboom, boom, boom, we sure wanna keep her, baboom, boom, boom, but she so black, baboom , boom, boom, we can’t see her .” the author makes people feel like they were seeing what was happening to Maleeka. Maleeka says when her dad died her mom took it out to sow clothes for Maleeka. When  Maleeka  gets mad fun she always remembered what her dad said to her when she always got bullied ”see yourself in your own eyes, don’t let someone do it for you ”.  Char made Maleeka’s grades slip because Maleeka did her homework for some expensive clothes so she didn’t have to ware her home made clothes that her mom makes her.

 

In the middle of the book Maleeka is harassed by two boys or more boys  on her way going to her home. The two boys where trying to rape her by almost pulling down her pants . After the attack Maleeka  has sweets keeping to herself and stops eating. She still is hanging out with char and never told her mom what happened to her that day.. Maleeka is sort of acting like it’s  her fault about her being harassed by the two or more boys.

 

At the end of the book  Maleeka stands up to char and char says she has no value. Maleeka was getting tired of char being controlled and bullied  by her and some others. Maleeka said in the book that ”not even the expensive pant suits she brought Maleeka can’t make up  the stuff she did to her”. Char is trying to make Maleeka take the blame for something char did. One thing that set off char is when Maleeka says ”call me by name! I am not ugly. I am not stupid. I am Maleeka Madison, and, yeah, I’m black, real black, and if you don’t like me, too bad’ cause black is the skin I’m in!” I yelled. ” no matter what you think, Charlese Jones, you’re ten times worse. ”I would never force someone to burn a classroom down, or  pick on weaker than me, or say words so mean they make people bleed inside.” ”I’m  rocking  and crying and rocking . ” you the one who pushed me to mess miss Saunder’s  room, and you were in it too-you and the twins”. I say relived. Char wasn’t very happy about that and miss Saunders gave Maleeka a hug that made Maleeka fell her safe.

 

 

some people say that you should you can’t rely on people. Maleeka find someone who she can rely on .” Rely is a lot like the word depends. If you rely on someone for help, you also depend on her or him. But rely is  even more powerful!! When you rely on someone, you have total faith and trust that he or she will come through.” that’s how Maleeka fells too.

 

 

Bullying

Bullying is aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real perceived power imbalanced. The behavior is repeated, or has been potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and may who bullied others may have serious  long lasting problems. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from one purpose. There is so many people  bullying, physical, name calling, verbal, cyber bullying.

Some people that bully other people have something going wrong at home or been bullied before. Bullying can lead up to physical injury, social problems, emotional problems, and death. Those that are bullied are at increased for mental health problems, headaches, and other problems  People all around the world get bullied for what they look like or something that they like to do. They shouldn’t bully them because of what they like. People might get the feeling that they don’t belong in school or even at home. Some of the words they say, people may take it to heart and hurt themselves for what you said. Having that trail behind you every day of your life.

Cyber-bullying is where someone makes threats online or just bully’s them and tells them not to say anything and it just gets worse and worse every day. Cyber bullying is when you use electronics such as cell phones, computers, tables, to get on social media to harassing and butting rumors about him or her. A lot of people spread rumors about him or her that’s no true and other people may believe, then the other people spreads the rumors that were online and make them look bad and they might try to harm themselves. The people that cyber bullying are jealous of him or her. We can only imagine what they’re going through. According to bullying.gov “cyber bullying is different from traditional bullying, what you can do to prevent it, and how you can report it when it happens.” It is another way of bullying without saying it to the victims face and to hurt the victim more.”

Aggressive behavior can cause physical or emotional harm to others. It may rage from verbal abuse to physical abuse.

i am a reader!

the last book i read was deep dark and dangerous. its almost when summer begins, 13 year old Ali finds an old photograph in the attic. She know the two children in it are her mother, Clarie,and her aunt Duclie.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I picked out this book called cinder its about this girl that is like half  robot. i choose this book because mrs.stanley she told me it was a really good book so i choose it and it was good from the little amount of pages i read.