They want to protect their children they say from books like these. “Although Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes has been declared one of the “Best of the Best Books for Young Adults” by the American Library Association – and it truly is – parents have often fought to have this book, and many others, removed from school and public libraries. This is why Bullying unfortunately is so vivid in today’s schools and neighborhoods.įor Sarah Byrnes, not having the family support that she needs to overcome the pain and secrets of her abuse that she has been bottling up inside is another reason that her family social world is affecting her behavior when it comes to her peers and school world.
It’s one thing when one is abused physically or mentally by their own family, it’s another when families do not teach their kids how to treat others who have a disability. When I think of Sarah Byrnes and the type of life she had to deal with because of the burns that disfigured her face, it makes me wonder how families in general have to deal with these type of situations. “ No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view – the way we perceive things – are inextricably linked to our beliefs, … ,our beliefs color what we see. “Once a thing is known,it can’t be unknown.” I was embarrassed that I haven’t found a way to include her somehow the way Mobe has.”
I was embarrassed that I let some kid go to school with me for twelve years and turned my back on pain that must be unbearable. Because the other day when I saw how hard it was for Mobe to go to the hospital to see her, I was embarrassed that I didn’t know her better, that I ever laughed at one joke about her. And if she’s going to get help, she’ll get it from herself or she’ll get it from us. “ From a distance,’ he says, ‘my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like the rest of us. This leads to a lot of unresolved situations and secrets exposed. It’s up to Eric to figure out what’s going on with his best friend.
Unfortunately in high school things get worse when Sarah Byrnes stops talking and is institutionalized. They became best friends each one depending on the other. They initially became friends because they were both outcasts in school with Sarah Byrnes having scars on her face and Eric being the fat kid. In “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes”, we have our two main characters, Sarah Byrnes and Eric Calhoune, who have been friends since junior high school.
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