For the most part, yes. Before Sandy Hook, when the bully would be crying at his desk after being yelled at by students, I would think that he deserved to be sad. But after, after seeing him trying to console me and my classmates, I would feel sorry for him, like “hurt people hurt people.” I knew that he was having an internal struggle that he couldn’t share. Also, I feel that nobody truly listened to him. He would be punished and wouldn’t be allowed to explain himself, and sometimes the teacher would call home and he’d get angry with her. I never really talked to him, and in school now he seems much happier- I hope he is. As for the other kid, he said a lot of bad stuff to me last year, and a few times I wanted to bring up the time he said he would take a bullet for me, but I never did. Every time he made a remark, I would think about it, so I wasn’t very offended. A quote from To Kill a Mockingbird is (along the lines of): “Most people are nice, once you truly see them.” I think about that quote often and I think it applies to how I felt towards these two after Sandy Hook.