Sharon The Description of the Doers of Social Bullying

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. “So, Elsie,” she said sarcastically, “that licorice whip came in your lunch box.” “What’s it to you, Diane?” “It’s plenty to me, Elsie. I got cheated out of my lunch because of you. You owe me fifty cents” “You have lots of money,” Elsie mumbled. “Oh, you think so, huh?” Diane tossed her head back, flicking her bangs out of her eyes. DeClements, 1981: 35-36 Not only saying something sarcastically, Diane shows verbal aggression. This aggression is shown to push Elsie so she confesses that she stole the money. Putting the fact whether Elsie stole the money or not, the use of the physical movement will threat somebody, the target, unproperly. Another verbal bullying can be seen in the story. Mrs. Hanson asks Marianne, Jenny, Jack, and Elsie to go to the library for some activity. Here, Marianne does her arithmetic assignment and she faces troubles on working on it. Then, Elsie offers some help and Marianne accepts it. Jenny pretends to be working while Elsie explains the way to finish the assignment. Then, Elsie offers help to Jenny, but Jenny refuses rudely. She certainly could teach better than my mother. Elsie turned my way and offered to help me, too. “I don’t need a thief helping me,” I told her. Marianne leaned over toward me. “Jenny, you could forget about that.” “Do you want to forget about it?” I asked. “She owes you a lunch. Elsie, when are you going to pay everyone back?” “When I get the money,” Elsie replied. “What about your allowance?” “I don’t get any,” Elsie said. “I bet.” “You really don’t get an allowance?” Marianne asked. “No, I don’t,” Elsie answered. “You just sit and stuff your mouth,” I put in. DeClements, 1981: 44 Here, Jenny restates and says that Elsie is a thief. It is true then that Elsie steal some money, but in this case, Jenny also states verbal bullying towards her friend. According to Helen Cowie, “swearing and using rude words” 2008:9 is one term of verbal bullyings. Stating Elsie as a thief is a rude respond toward Elsie’s offer to teach Jenny in arithmetic. Jenny is not like Marianne who can try to forget what Elsie does. She remembers that Elsie steals the money and exploit that event to bully Elsie and place her as a thief. Jack said she looked like a hog ready for slaughter. DeClements, 1981: 46 This sentence shows the reader about the condition Elsie faces. A condition in which everybody forms her as a person to blame and ridicule. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English Sixth Edition, the word hog has two meanings in its noun form. The first one is “a pig bred for its meat, especially a castrated male pig” Hornby, 1995: 565. Another meaning of this word is “a person who wants too much os something, especially foor or thinks only of herself or himself” Hornby, 1995: 565. Stating a girl as a pig is a form of verbal bullying. This action results poor image for Elsie. Here, the doer of social bullying wants to create bad image and ridicule Elsie. That mockery results Elsie as a girl to ridicule and to laugh at. The word hog makes an image showing that Elsie is a pig or a greedy child who wants others’ meals. I looked to the front of the room and saw Elsie frantically pulling up her skirt over her white underpants. I poked Roy in the back. “What’s going on? This some kind of striptease?” Roy could only shake his head. He was laughing so hard tears wobbled in his eyes. I turned to Diane. “What’s going on?” “When Elsie stood up, her skirt fell off,” Diane answered me. And then Jack let out a whoop. DeClements, 1981: 47-48 In this event, Jenny bullies Elsie verbally. The way Jenny says her words is followed by ‘a whoop’ by Jack. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English Fifth Edition, the word ‘whoop’ shows an excitement. The whoop comes as a respond toward the falling of Elsie’s skirt and Jenny’s words. Jenny says the word stripstease to respond the way Elsie’ skirt falls off. Jenny mocks the incident and the mockery comes up because the incident is experienced by Elsie, a fat girl whose skirt falling off because the body gets slimmer. Jenny does not see the positive side, Elsie’s body gets slimmer, but on the contrary she emphasizes this incident to mock Elsie. Then, the whoop stresses the incident as a silly happening. Helen Cowie states that “watching and laughing” 2008: 9 is a verbal bullying. Looking at the fact that embarassing incident happens to Elsie, the way Jack whoops bullies Elsie. These kinds of verbal bullyings emphasizes the fact that Elsie is a ridiculous girl to bully.