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A SILENT VOICE

A Silent Voice is an animated film of year 2016, where the story explain the remorse and redemption of  Shoya Ishida for attributing school bullying to the other protagonist, Shoko Nishimiya when he was a kid.

We can see in the begining of the story that the school bullying towards Shoko is caused by a discriminatory cause, because Shoko is deaf.

Some of the behaviours of bullying that Shoko suffered are: moking her when she read a text because a deaf person can't pronunciate properly the words, group exclusion, verbal bullying like criticism about her clothes, physical bullying like throwing away her hearing aid or throwing her belongings in the water.


The cause of the bullying maybe for popularity goals and atracction of attention in the class, or increasing self-steem by bullying a disabled person.

We can also see the dinamics and roles that adopt the classmates of Shoko, some adopts a reinforcer role and the majority of the class adopts a outsider role. Even the teacher adopts an outsider role, until Shoko's parents complains in the school about her losing a lot of hearing devices.

What's interesting about the film is that when the teacher have to do something to approach the problem all the classmate and the professor turn Shoya Ishida in throwing all the resposability on him, and when finally Shoko transfer to another school, Shoya becomes the victim of the bullying.



The film also demostrates the conseqüences of being bullied and the remosement of bullying someone, in form of showing how the adulthood of Shya is like. He is complety isolated from the others and with suicide ideations.


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