Providing only one 14-minute performance, the Drill’s activities were always secret and steeped in controversy. The biggest question was always, what could possibly motivate someone to take on such a challenge? Enter the secret world of the 14 Nights, and experience the heartaches and hell of being a “roach” that seeks the glory and honor of knights from days gone by. Because of an eldest son tradition, second born John O’Bryan grew up feeling like a second-class citizen in his own family. The troubled southern boy matured into a wild and angry young man, and was convinced by others that The Citadel was the only college suited to handle his less than acceptable attitude.
It started with Victor’s encounter with other Indian boys bullying him because of his too short hair and horn-rimmed, ugly glasses. Victor was constantly bullied until one day he fought back. Bullying wasn’t contained to his fellow classmates; one teacher, Betty Towle, was impartial to him because he was Indian. He was given a test designed for junior high students and was punished for answering everything right. In the fourth grade, Victor’s father started drinking.
Priscilla was basically a loner, except for her one friend, Melvin Detweiler. “Priscilla hardly ever says anything to anybody except Melvin. Melvin was one of the smallest people in school, and for this reason he was picked on a lot, so Priscilla stood up for him. Priscilla protected Melvin when the Kobra’s tried to humiliate him and when their leader Monk tried to bully him around. Monk was the school bully; and the leader of the schools gang, called the “Kobra’s”.
His teachers would say he would go nowhere in life, his parents would fight continuously and he found it very difficult to make friends. Tim Burton dropped out of school when he was 15 years old. Despite all of Tim’s childhood problems, Tim has managed to incorporate them and his life values into his films, which is how he has had such a long term success as a movie director. One of Burton’s most successful films is the movie Edward Scissor hands. The movie is about a man named Edward who has scissors for hands and tries to fit into the ‘perfect society’.
Stradlater only had one option, he had to punch Holden. Which knocked him on the floor. His nose began to bleed. Than Stradlater looked at him and said “Why the hell don’t’cha shut up when I tellya to? You asked for it, God damn it.” Holden layed there on the floor, yelling at Stardlater, calling him a “moron sonuvabitch”.
One time, he even accidentally slapped Admiral Akbar in his mussel, freaking the Admiral to shout “It’s a trap!” And then the troops rushed in with their blasters locked and loaded. Madam Lucretia had to assert order back into the group with a loud shout. Along the entire duration of the meeting, Hubba would look them straight in the eye and answer with, n strange, almost evil, smirk. At the end of his answers, Hubba would move his hands to his chin and start choking his long beard as if he was an evil plotter. Bubba, however, actually would rarely ever look at his audience at all.
I remember that walk home was the longest one of my life. (Graham 7) Reading this quote shows that his classmates came up with anything they could so they could make fun of him. As a teenager, Drake’s social life did not get much better than his childhood’s. Drake did anything he could to fit in, from smoking to drinking, you name it. All he wanted was to be accepted, but it was hard to fit in because he was not rich and white like all of his other classmates.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (pg. 30) is one of the lessons learned. No one in Maycomb puts themselves in Boo’s shoes, so they don’t understand his suffering. People don’t see his true intelligence that was ruined by his cruel father; this makes Boo one of our most important mockingbirds. I see behavior like this everyday, as I walk down the high school halls, into the lunchroom, even just kids hanging out in town – there is always some one judging someone.
One could be the absence of parents. Andy never had anyone to look up to, a role model during his childhood, the only exception being Chris Reynolds, which seemingly only resulted in turning things for the worse. The sentence “It’s only me” describes Andy’s situation very well, because even though he met Josh and Reynolds they, in the end, was guilty as to why Andy committed the school shooting. Josh tried to push the responsibility away from himself, but he was a part of what caused Andy to go over the edge, he pushed him and made him commit the shooting amongst many others. No one was ever there for him.
He was a freshman at Heath High School in Heath, KY, who was constantly picked on. Michael had the impression that kids could take advantage of him and he would never stand up to the people bullying him. The rage just continued to build up inside. After a humiliating experience at school where Michael was rumored to be gay: he snapped. He was quoted as saying, "they ALL mocked and slaughtered my self esteem it got so bad I had to turn to drugs."