The Hangman

The Hangman
By: Maurice Ogden

It was amazing to read about how one man can take over one village and convince people to go against each other. But what the funny thing about this situation is that it happens all the time. For example, in school when one person bullies another person, not many really take action; there are rarely up standers in a situation because most of the time, people are either afraid of also being bullied or they think that someone else will take care of the situation and that they shouldn’t get involved (the bystander effect). At the end of the poem, the bully asked the last one standing why he helped him kill everyone else; he wondered why he didn’t fight for the others because now there is no one to fight for him. It was funny to the bully because it was one man taking control of many people and not one stood up to him. If one person would have stood up to him and fought their right to live, no body would’ve been hurt. So if there is a scenario, at school or any public venue, where a person bullies a group or a single person and there is an up stander it is guaranteed things wouldn’t be as heated as it would be without the up stander.