Because it has hardly any limitations, the fourth quarter creative writing project gives me the opportunity to write and reveal something I am exceedingly passionate about; thus, I have unanimously chosen to discuss the causes and effects that bullying tolls on the perpetrator, victim and bystander. Revealing the bystander, perpetrator, and victim inside of the whole entire audience is the main goal of the project, for I hope that each student recognizes and discovers a person they have not directly met before: a bully, whose actions are caused by stress or high expectations, a bystander, who doesn't speak out to protect her social stature, and a victim, whose emotions quickly transform form angry to depressed.


In all of my pieces, I write in the first person because I have been placed in all three groups involving bullying, and I know my classmates around have also been in this position. Writing in the first person lets the listener visualize his or herself in the situation. Hoping to see the audience think and relate to bullying, I used a couple of metaphors to allow their brains to start thinking. In other words, I don't want to give the audience my thoughts and emotions in each situation, I want to give them an idea that triggers their own memories and feelings of the experience. Next, I primarily focused on the feelings of the bystander, bully, and victim because I believe that the situation itself is not as powerful the raw emotions of the speaker. By focusing on the actual situation, the audience is incapable of letting their emotions in since they are primarily focused on what comes next in the plot. In every poem, I keep the sentence variety consistent. I wrote in this way because I didn't want the beat and tempo to be predictable. Just like the feelings of people involved in bullying, the sentence structure is unpredictable and ever changing. Lastly, I choose to write with captivating and powerful verbs and adjective such as "perpetual success" and "I quench the anger". These words sound just as powerful as the mean, and they also make people think. Quenching anger transmits a strong visual image image into reader's brain that allows them to see the victim's emotions. The word "perpetual" even sounds like a long time, so it is easier to relate to the perpetrator's feelings. Overall, writing in first person, using concrete metaphors, revealing raw emotion, varying sentence structure, and including impactful verbs and adjective allows the audience to be captivated and relate themselves to the effects of bullying.