Yaqui Delgado

So far Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass has mostly involved quite a bit of bullying.

I think one of the worst things about bullying is that it can be because of something seemingly out of the blue, it can be seemingly out of no where. Yaqui, in this book, bullies Piddy even though Piddy has not actually done anything that would even come close to directly wrong to Yaqui. But oftentimes people do not really need an excuse beyond their own personal issues to be just awful.

The characters in this book are fairly young, and so that is definitely a factor in all of this. They are immature and just do not really seem to know what to do with their own feelings- so they come out in all sorts of underdeveloped and inappropriate ways- like the bullying.

I am wondering how much impact the poverty the characters face in this book has. Of course, it adds to the stress that is on the characters- it definitely doesnt HELP them because it gives them more issues to worry about- but I wonder whether or not without it the bullying would be as bad as it is? To me, I think that bullying is a fairly universal thing- but I do think that there are some things about poverty that can serve as... reasons for it, poor reasons, but reasons that might be easier to understand than bullying outside of impoverished communities.