Jarvis Clutch Chapter 5 – Personal Connection
After reading chapter 5 . . .
Identify something that Jarvis observed about kids in his school that you found interesting. How does it relate to the social scene at LREI? In responding, don’t talk about specific individuals or incidents at LREI, but try to get at the underlying idea (e.g., instead of saying, “I remember when X . . .” try “sometimes a person can think that . . . .”
Feel free (in fact it is encouraged) to respond to someone who has posted before you. If you agree, explain why and see if you can take the idea deeper. If you disagree, explain why and offer your view on things. Whether you agree or disagree, respond respectfully and thoughtfully.
If you are responding to a classmate, click on the reply link in their comment so that your reply is connected to their comment.
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The bomber was interesting because he did not know how his actions affected other people in abad way. He had thought he was being nice
he also thought he was being normal and when he realized that others thought he was weird, he didn’t know what to do or if he could still change his behavior.
And he was probably like OH!!!!!!! I’m aggressive and then he didn’t know how to fix himself. I kinda felt bad for him. Also he seemed kind of nice when he was with Jarvis but when he is not calm and sitting down he would appear to be mean.
I agree he probably didn’t know what to do but he was kind and nice next to Jarvis
I agree and he should of never give up to having friends
He was trying to be nice but in his own way, but the kids at his school don’t think he is being nice. I feel this happens at lrei too.
i totally agree. sometime i do that to people sometimes people do that to me
I also thought he was interesting because he thought he was being nice but to everyone else he wasn’t
Yeah he was trying to be nice. BUt he wasn’t benining very nice. He was just hurting other kids and he was really annoying.
He was trying to be nice, but as i said. In his own way.
I also agree with cooper because he seemed to affect everyone around him, and I don’t think that was helping at all.
I agree with cooper, Bomber didn’t understand/realize his aggression towards others. He didn’t know that he was hurting other people. He is nice but sometimes he forgets to show that.
I think that this can even happen to people we know. They don’t think that they are being aggressive with their words but they are and i think that it is something that everyone around them notices except for them.
Yah I agree sometimes people try to be nice and they are actually really annoying but people are afraid to tell them so because they are afraid that they might hurt there feelings
I agree. Sometimes I feel like I can be a little extra from time to time and it’s hard for me to notice
I agree with with this. It is an interesting topic. Has anyone ever told him that he did this?
Sometimes people can and will think that some other people are weird and because of that, they don’t hang out with them or try to be friends with them. They only judge that person by how they act, and sometimes it’s good because that person may be able to hurt you. But what some of us(including me) don’t notice is that they are trying to be like that because they think it’s normal and they think that if they acts certain way, people will like them.
I agree with dakota. If you make fun of somebody because they don’t do something other people do, they might not understand what you are doing wrong. They probably are trying really hard to fit in, but they need to do this one thing that they don’t even realize. They would think you are making fun of them for no reason. I would probably get really angry if this happened to me and I didn’t know what to do to fix it.
Sometimes people may gang up on one person and comment on something and not notice that they may be hurting that person’s feelings. Sometimes people do it to hurt others. Sometimes people cause situations they want to be solved but then they start to make it worse and worse without realizing it. And then sometimes people just want total control or the best position to be in or tell others what to do or work independently.
I agree that not everyone is aware when they are bothering someone, and when the person who is being bothered is not defending him/herself, that can result in a bad situation or hurt a friendship.
I agree with Dakota. Some people don’t even realize they’re are weird. And in some cases I feel that if your weird you are cool, but if you’re weird in a WEIRD way, than your just weird. And I feel that quite often people can gang up on people because they don’t want to be the only other one. A lot of people can gang up on others without even realizing it sometimes its just an opinion. But I think there is a friend for everyone, no matter how weird, cool, athletic, smart and yeah.
He was doing something he did not know he was doing, like pushing to be at every line front even with all the pushing and shoving
Yeah I don’t understand why he did that there is no reason to push and be aggressive towards kids who have done nothing.
Sometimes people start a problem/conflict that they want to resolve, but then they just start making the problem worse and worse until everything is a complete disaster. I think that people who aren’t completely aware about how they interact with other people tend to annoy someone or say something mean without even realizing it.
I agree with Sophie. Sometimes people can be mean without realizing it. Some people aren’t as good at interacting with other people.
I noticed that people at lrei also pay a lot of attention to there looks
I found bomber interesting because I was like he didn’t even want to try to be nice or kind. He would just hurt kids or be annoying. I hope i never do that.
yeah I hope I don’t do that too.
I hope i don’t either. But that happens in a lot of schools and our school and sometimes they don’t even notice when there doing it
I found bomber interesting because he just seemed to create less and less friends.
Sometimes people can be your good friend for a long day and then one day they will be totally mean to you. Just strange that they would totally change in so little a time.
Sometimes I see kids being really mean whenthey try being nice. The other day I heard someone say to someone else your not that un cool? What did that mean that was just mean.
I think that a lot of people do variations of what bomber does. EX: you might try to be funny, but you might just end up hurting someones feelings. Or, you might want to be playful, and not even notice that you have hurt someone. Also, people do that all the time in LREI (in a smaller way). The person might try to get in a group of popular kids by doing something that they might think is right, but really they find out after you have done that thing that it is a very wrong/not good thing to have done.
I thought it was interesting about how some people take out their anger on others. Sometimes someone might forget something or someone, and another person might get really upset without realizing it was a mistake. I notice that a lot of fights or arguments start from that.
I agree he di not know what he was doing but when he found out things turned around. This shows that you might think things but there are can be unexpected things that you don’t realize.
I found bomber interesting because he (maybe) WAS trying to be nice, but in his own way. but he ended up hurting and annoying other people.
Sometimes kids are mean to other kids because there parents are divorced or they want to be popular and to be popular you have to pick on the non-popular kids.
People could be having problems at home and they are just having ruff times. They also might take it out on there friends in school.
I think that kids try to act nice but they are really acting mean. Or lets say something comes out of your mouth verbibly or online you can never take something back
I agree thats why you should always think before you say things because even if you apologize you still said that first and you can’t undo it.
– Aditya
I think that some kids can try to be nice but end up being mean.
They didn’t mean to be mean but it just came out. Or they couldn’t help it and they wanted to be mean but what you say is what you say and you cant take it back.
i think that a lot of the physical activity that goes on at Jarvis’s school wouldn’t happen at lrei but it could happen but people can still have some problems and conflicts that come up around that.
I think that a personal connection that I have is that of 2 people who are good at soccer but one of them brags and one of them is modest and is kind to people even when they mess up. It is good to have friends like that because you know that even if you make a little mistake you won’t have people screaming in your face.
– Aditya
I also now someone who never accepts that people might accidentally bump into him etc. He is a good kid but is to sensetive to work with, even for short periods because he always victimizes himself.
– Aditya