8-Year-Old Boy Asks Santa to End His Sister’s Bullying-News Comment #4

Good Morning America Story

I only read the first 8 words of the headline and I was hooked! The headline was better then the lead! Other then the story being cute and the readers kind of figuring that out as the read it I think what made it even better was the first quote was the letter the brother wrote to Santa. So it was written as if it wrote it, the spelling was how he had it and the grammar was how he had it. That direct quote brought so much more meaning and feelings to this story then any of the many quotes that were used. It just pulled all emotion out of you when reading it and you were hooked to read the rest. It was all just perfect, and made it so much better. That quote made the story. It wouldn’t have been as touching if the writer didn’t put that in the article.



1 Comment so far

  1.   fuglsang on September 24th, 2013

    True enough, Caitlin. The quote helps. But the magic of the internet
    is that the letter is right there as well. I don’t have to imagine what
    it’s like because I can read it. I wonder how newspapers covered this.
    Do you suppose they included a scan of the letter?

    The headline didn’t do much for me. It actually confused me more
    than anything because I thought the boy was asking that his sister
    stop bullying him.