YDWTKYA #2

I thought 'Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass' was an okay book. There were many times when it made me angry though. The bullying scenes are what bothered me but I wish I had known more about Yaqui's character and why she acted the way she did. Bullying was in my opinion, the biggest issue in this book. The author takes it to a deeper and more serious level. I definitely think the bullying is realistic, but I don't think that's the most common type of bullying. The bullying in this book seems more extreme. For most people that experience being bullied, it appears to be more mild. Throughout the novel, Piddy has a series of bad events happen to her. Yaqui continues to bully her regardless of what Piddy does. I feel like the ending could have been better however. I wish Piddy didn't have to switch schools because I feel like in a way that is showing that Yaqui had won. She was able to get rid of Piddy. Yaqui also should have had more consequences. A suspension is not going to fix her. It's just the easy way for a school to say they are trying to help stop bullying when in reality it's not that easy. For all the awful things Yaqui did to Piddy, a suspension just doesn't cut it. It won't fix anything. I wonder what would have happened to Yaqui if the book were to continue. Would she find someone else to bully? Would she change? I think this book does a good job at representing bullying and how it can affect people, but I think the ending should have been a bit different. As much as I wish it had ended differently, I think it shows you that not everything can be fixed completely and that's the point. Not every negative situation can be solved so easily.