I just started a new book called Raiders Night. So far in this book I’m only about 70-pages in and I have already found an example of a social issue. I don’t know if the author meant to do this but to me the issue so far I see something that can maybe be seen as something related to police brutality. In the book the police are not involved yet, but I think that the author is trying to show how people with power take advantage of their power by verbally and mentally bullying and hurting others.
One example I have found so far in this book that could be an example of police brutality is how when a new player joined the high school football team, the captain Ramp started off having a negative attitude towards him. So far Ramp seems like a very mean, pushy and demanding person and I think it’s like this because since he has so much power he thinks he can do anything. To me this really relates to my topic in ELA right now because it is very similar to police brutality.
Another example of police brutality was a much more physical type of bullying. It was a freshman event and any new players on the team and the seniors including ramp got to basically torture them. But not in a mean or physical way. Ramp took the whole event way to far. He made the new player Matt strip down to no clothes on. They got into a little scuffle and since Matt was blind folded he could not really do anything. At that point Ramp literally took a plastic baseball bat and pushed it into his body. He then could not really move and blood started trickling down his leg. This was another example of how Ramp, someone with authority took it way to far. Which to me could be an example of bullying or police brutality too.
Overall i think that so far in this book i have found multiple examples of how this could relate to bullying and or police brutality. It is someone taking advantage of their power because basically no one tries to stop them. I think if someone steps up to Ramp and tells him how bad of a person he is being to his own teammates it might open his eyes and stop being such a bully. And stop taking so much advantage of his power. I am really interested to read more and see what else i can compare to my main subject.
Overall i think that so far in this book i have found multiple examples of how this could relate to bullying and or police brutality. It is someone taking advantage of their power because basically no one tries to stop them. I think if someone steps up to Ramp and tells him how bad of a person he is being to his own teammates it might open his eyes and stop being such a bully. And stop taking so much advantage of his power. I am really interested to read more and see what else i can compare to my main subject.
