doers find stimulations to bully in the victim. The way Elsie is fat and she steals the class money stimulates the doers to bully. The bullying done is not based on
gender difference but based on the way Elsie’s physical appearance and actions.
1. Direct Verbal Aggression
In this part, the writer analyzes the verbal bullying happening. This part takes a big portion in the story. Direct verbal aggressions are done by Elsie’s new
classmate but Marianne. Helen Cowie states that “direct verbal aggression may take the form of yelling abuse at another, name-calling, using insulting
expressions or making verbal threats” 2008: 3. The verbal aggressions shown in the story are to show that Elsie’s classmates does not really like Elsie.
After that day the boys started calling Elsie “Scrounge.” And she was the class room reject. DeClements, 1981: 12
This part shows the way boys calling Elsie. In the dictionary Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English Fifth Edition, the word
‘scrounge’ has two meanings. As a verb, it means “to persuade somebody to give one something, or to take something without asking permission” Hornby, 1995:
1056, or, as a noun, it means trying “to borrow or obtain something by scrouging” Hornby, 1995: 1056. This word refers to Elsie’s behaviour that she likes to ask
the other students’ their lunch or meals. Elsie asks this because she has no enough meal in her lunch box and she still feels hungry for that, so she asks the other
students whether or not they want to give her their lunch or meals. The way the boys calling Elsie as a scrounge is a form of verbal bullying. The proof that it is a
form of bullying can be seen by the using of the word ‘started’. This word describes the way the boys say ‘scrounge’ is not only for once, but it can be
continued, because it is written in text that “the boy started calling Elsie “Scrounge” DeClements, 1981: 12. For the result of this term of bullying is
Elsie “was the class room reject” DeClements, 1981: 12. Almost in the middle part of the story, Elsie is accused as a thief of
student’s money. Jenny figures it out by looking at the money Elsie used to buy candies. After that, she tells her friend that Elsie may be the thief of the stolen
money. Jenny’s friend accept it as a chance to blame Elsie for the money stolen. At lunch recess Diane decided she would do something about Elsie’s
taking her money. Otherwise, she said, she’d never get it back. She marched up to Elsie with Sharon and me trailing behind.
