MOLLY BURKE

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: Who Is This Person

Chapter 2: Will It Ever Stop

Chapter 3: Finding happiness

I am honored to talk about Molly Burke. She is someone who changed the world. Some people just like to push people around because it makes them feel in control. Other just want to see people suffer because they have to suffer. And sometimes they are dealing with things at home that make them mean. Either way it's not right to BULLY someone. I will tell, you a story about a girl named Molly Burke. D

CHAPTER 1

Molly Burke is a girl who lost her sight when she was about 15. She got bullied all the time. Once, the girls who she thought were her friend, broke her crutches when she had a broken leg.

Molly was never dragged down to far. She said that she was never DEPRESSED, she never felt like ending her life.

She stayed strong through the whole thing. They picked on her they pushed her around. But that didn't change the fact that she new she had to stay strong.

Molly is fighting to keep bullying out of this world. Bullying is too harmful some people don't make it through being bullied. Some people just give up.

CHAPTER 2

Her and her brother lived in a beautiful brick, two story house in Oakville ,Ontario.

When Molly was four and a half, someone at the end of an OPHTHALMOSCOPE finally noticed freckles on the back of her RETINA. Molly was DIAGNOSED with retinas pigmentosa , a rare, eye disease that would eventually make her world blank.

Niamh and Peter , Molly's parents, tried to make Molly’s childhood as normal as possible, but it wasn’t easy. Things that other kids took for granted, like Halloween, were especially hard. When Molly’s friends went trick-or-treating in a pack,Peter had to take Molly on her own, guiding her from house to house and counting the steps up to each door.

“Whenever she got to that point, we always tried to find something else,” Peter says. “We’d start thinking, ‘What activity can she do now that she can maybe do for the rest of her life?’ ”

She learned how to ride horses from a therapeutic camp. She also learned how to ski with guidance. Molly says that snowflakes feel like cold cobwebs, on her cheeks.

CHAPTER 3

Molly is proud of how she took the difficult things that happened to her and used them to help other people. She has become an inspiration to the bullied and the bullies. “I’ve had kids come up to me afterwards and say, ‘Thank you for helping me realize that it does get better, and that I might feel happy again one day.’”

After a recent speech that Molly gave a girl came up to her that was sisters with someone in her 8th grade class. The girl said, ‘My sister told me to tell you she didn’t know what you were going through. She said to tell you she’s sorry.’

As you can see Molly is an amazing, beautiful and wonderful person. She sticks up to things that she believes in. She never gives up, and even when it's the worst she never backed down. She will forever hold a special spot in this world.

Glossary
Bully: a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker.

Depressed:in a state of general unhappiness or despondency.

Ophthalmoscope:
an instrument for inspecting the retina and other parts of the eye.

Glossary

Retina:a layer at the back of the eyeball containing cells that are sensitive to light and that trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.

Diagnosed: identify the nature of (an illness or other problem) by examination of the symptoms

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Mar 22, 2013 Sydney Loney
• Blind and bullied
• http://www.chatelaine.com