The article " Surviving High School " by Tom Junod from the Atlanta magazine is about the different effects of bullying. The article focuses on two boys named Eric Stone and Curt Hersey. It portrays how bullying effected these two boys in different ways.
Both Eric and Curt got bullied in middle school because they were overweight and didn't play in any sports. When they went to high school they were determined to get rid of their "geek" and "no-account" reputation in middle school, they wanted to redefine themselves. So by the time they went to high school they lost weight and grew tall and grew their hair long.However, they would also they enrolled in drugs like pot,acid,coke and would drink liquor. However, this caused meant that one would survive high school and the other wouldn't.
Curt joined the Walton's drama club in school and starred in plays. He competed in the Academic Bowl and produced his own videos. He also had a pretty girlfriend and he drove a red camaro Z28. He didn't drink, use drugs or condone in casual sex. He eventually graduated from Walton high school and enrolled in Berry College. However, Eric was not like that. He smoked pot at age 13 he flunked grade 10 and dropped out of high school. Eric's parents kicked him out of their home so he had to live in the woods or break into churches and sleep on the pews. However, when he went to a party he encountered an old girlfriend that told him that "he was dying" so the next morning he talked to his mother, they had breakfast and asked for help.he went to a hospital and now works at Mc Donalds. They both had similar beginnings but different endings.
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