BULLIES: Monologues on Bullying For Teens and Adults
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“Your heart's pounding, you sweat, and you feel like you're going to vomit..."
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise is far from the only celebrity to overcome bullying to attain huge success. If bullying is a problem for many in high school, it is even more of a problem for those who are different - which often means those who are particularly gifted in some way. What a bully makes a curse may later turn to be a great gift. But too many young people give up before that can happen, turning to substance abuse or even suicide.
This collection of original monologues looks at this national problem from many different points of view: those of the victims and the bullies, of teachers and parents, of bystanders who may or may not step in. It focuses on high school, but also looks at how bullying occurs in college and the adult world, and at the scars it may leave years later. The book is intended both for actors and for those who want to make others aware of the issues around an experience that is too familiar to too many.
Jim Chevallier
Jim Chevallier is a food historian who has been cited in "The New Yorker", "The Smithsonian" and the French newspapers "Liberation" and "Le Figaro", among other publications. CHOICE has named his "A History of the Food of Paris: From Roast Mammoth to Steak Frites" an Outstanding Academic Title for 2019. His most recent work is "Before the Baguette: The History of French Bread". He began food history with an essay on breakfast in 18th century France (in Wagner and Hassan's "Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century") in addition to researching and translating several historical works of his own. He has been both a performer and a researcher, having worked as a radio announcer (WCAS, WBUR and WBZ-FM), acted (on NBC's "Passions", and numerous smaller projects). It was as an actor that he began to write monologues for use by others, resulting in his first collection, "The Monologue Bin". This has been followed by several others over the years.
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BULLIES - Jim Chevallier
Introduction
I've tried being other people and being me suits me best.
Chris Colfer (Glee)
In the mid-Nineties, a group of bullies at an English girls' school put feces in a thirteen-year-old's bed. That was only one of the things they did to her before she changed schools. Why? Apparently because she was too tall and had eczema.
A few years later, in New York, others took a young woman they'd been tormenting and threw her in a trash can.
In 2011, the first victim, Kate Middleton, married Prince William and became the Duchess of Cambridge. The second, Lady Gaga, already at the height of her success, put out an anthem - Born This Way
- for all who are different. Yet in a documentary she is seen, tired and discouraged, wondering if she will always be the girl who got thrown in a trash can.
The duchess and the lady
are only two of the many people who have succeeded brilliantly in life after surviving bullying in high school. Often, as with Middleton's height, people are bullied for one of the very things that makes them stand out later. So many people discover that, like the ugly duckling in the folk tale, they never fit in with the ducks because... they were a swan.
But to do that, you have to survive.
2011 was also the year that two fourteen-year-olds hung themselves because they could no longer stand being bullied. Tragically, they are only two in a long list of teens who could not look beyond the pain of a brief period in their lives to see how much larger, how much better, Life could be.
Yet every adult who has experienced bullying themselves yearns to tell thousands of tormented teens who cannot imagine anything beyond the taunts, the blows, the rumors inflicted on them by their peers this one thing: it gets better.
And it does.
But you have to survive. More than that, you have to keep alive inside you the very thing that so many bullies try to destroy, the very specific, individual thing that makes you... different. Perhaps someday, if you are true to it, different like Lady Gaga and the Duchess of Cambridge. But one way or the other, specifically and uniquely yourself.
It would be nice to say that there are no bullies in college or in the adult world. But of course there are. All through Life you will meet people who are strong in one way – physically, intellectually, financially – but feel terrifyingly weak in another, and so use whatever strength they have to make others feel smaller, to reassure themselves that they are not as weak and afraid as they feel inside. This may be a boss who berates his subordinates; it may be a colleague who undermines others; it may be (increasingly) some anonymous person on the Internet. No one can tell you honestly that bullying ends with Senior Prom.
Still, most of us find it easier later in Life to deal with such people; to stand up to them, or change jobs, or simply ignore them. When you are younger, when you have not yet seen enough of Life to know how large it is, how much more there is to it; when you feel vulnerable and alone, it is different; it is often overwhelming. Most adults know that; many remember it.
The present collection explores this all-too-common experience from the point of view of the bullied, the bullies, the people who do or don't help, the people who are marked by the experience, the people who triumph, the people who don't. Some of these are clear-cut, classic cases of bullying: people being beaten up or mocked,