Uma's Reading Log

Book: Clarice Bean Don't Look Now
Author: Lauren Child

8. Describe who the antagonist is and why he/she is doing all those bad things. Get inside her/his head.

                  The antagonist in my book that I am reading is Justin. If you could see him, you would think he was a normal nice kid. Justin is far from that, he treats his classmates extremely bad! He always bullies his classmates and makes them terrified of him, he could even steal something that means everything to someone. Like when Justin stole Clem's rabbit and forced her to give him all her lunch money if she wanted to see her rabbit again.

                 The reason why Justin treats others this way will pro lady never be answered in the book. So we need to ask ourselves how can we stop this and why are people bullying others? I think when Justin was younger he himself was bullied by a group of people. He felt utterly bad because he had no one to talk to. Justin never trusted anyone, he didn't have a real friend that was there for him. Justin walked around feeling horrible and pretending to be happy. But when the bullying finally was over, he couldn't pretend that everything was perfect any longer. So all his anger and sadness exploded inside him and he wanted his classmates to feel the way he did, because he thought everyone else had it so "easy".