First Lit Group Connection

In my book, Shattering Glass by Gail Giles, one of the main characters, Rob Haynes was molested by his father until he was eleven years old. I can connect with this because my step‑uncle was molested by his own cousin as a child. I can see how the terrible experience of being molested as a young child can affect the way you turn out as an adult. Rob, who is still living with the terrible memories, is trying to hide what happened from his friends. Also, with my uncle, he kept this from his parents until he was in his mid-teen years, about 10 years after he had undergone the experience. Sadly, there was nothing the family could do.

Bullying, NOT Jealousy!

She’s just jealous. This is the world-wide line all mothers tell their daughters when she undergoes a rough day at school, or got into a fight with her friends. The sad truth is female bullying is real. In the novel Odd Girl Speaks Out by Rachel Simmons, the subject of female bullying is closely examined by the readers.
Our society constantly camouflages the subject of female bullying by confusing it with jealousy. In each of the stories of the girls who have been bullied confide their feelings in their friends or in their family and in each situation the friends or family cover up the bullying by blaming the problem simply on jealousy. Realizing that bullying is not always based on jealousy, the readers will realize that girls are vicious snakes.