The Bully
Blog post #4
Discussion Director
Question #3: As Roger helped Tony into the van, the disabled man stated "I guess you're thinking 'What comes around goes around.'" I think the man was referring to how he had bullied Roger as a child. He was trying to express that what you do has an effect on you, it always comes back on you. For example he was bullying people and now he was being "bullied" by life.
Question #4: In my opinion Roger Dean Kiser, the author of the short story, wrote the piece for several reasons. First of all, I think he was trying to express how people can change. For example Tony had changed from a bully to what sounded like a relatively nice person. I also think that the story was written to convey that if you do something bad, don't be upset when something bad happens to you and according to the quote "what comes around goes around" it will happen. Whatever you do will come and kick you in the back one day.
Blog post #4
Discussion Director
The short story The Bully is about the reunion of a man, Roger Kiser, and of his middle school bully, Tony Claxton. The bully has changed from a big, strong bully to a thin and immobile man. He cannot use his legs at all.
Question #1: Throughout the story, in which Tony is mentioned as a child and as grown man, his character changes. First, he is talked about as a bully. He appears as a kind of tough guy that would enjoy making fun of you or picking a fight with you. However, as Roger gets to know the man as he is now, the readers view on Tony changes to a thin, pleasant and helpless man. He seems to regret his decisions and the way he treated Dean back in middle school.
Question #2: As Roger realized how Tony had changed, his view on the man changes along with his approach to his past bully. He stops thinking about his old bully as the kind of unpleasant show-off that he used to be, but he realizes how much the man has changed. So instead of ignoring him and hating him, he decides to help Tony and his helpless wife Barbara.
Question #3: As Roger helped Tony into the van, the disabled man stated "I guess you're thinking 'What comes around goes around.'" I think the man was referring to how he had bullied Roger as a child. He was trying to express that what you do has an effect on you, it always comes back on you. For example he was bullying people and now he was being "bullied" by life.
Question #4: In my opinion Roger Dean Kiser, the author of the short story, wrote the piece for several reasons. First of all, I think he was trying to express how people can change. For example Tony had changed from a bully to what sounded like a relatively nice person. I also think that the story was written to convey that if you do something bad, don't be upset when something bad happens to you and according to the quote "what comes around goes around" it will happen. Whatever you do will come and kick you in the back one day.
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