The given Article „Locker 160“ was written by Lee Busselman and published in Scholastic Scope in 1971.
The article deals with the topic of bullying between high school students, which comes to a bad end.
Firstly, two girls named Julie and Karen are having the idea to put a hate note as a joke in the Locker of their classmate Miriam. She is an introvert. Nevertheless, she also is good locking and smart.
The next day the two girls writing the mean letter on a paper and put it in Miriam's Locker. After that, both were waiting for Miriam to find and read the letter. Then, when Miriam is seeing the letter she is getting shocked. However, Julie and Karen are running away and were laughing.
The day after that, the girls were putting marbles in Miriam's looker. Then Miriam opening the locker, the marbles were bouncing down the hallway where the principal were standing. Before biology class the two bullies are making a voodoo doll of Miriam and put it in Miriam's locker. The two girls are expecting to see Miriam's reaction again. Nevertheless, she is not in the class.
Even though Miriam were trying to kill herself because of the bulling, Julie and Karen do not regret and understand it that this is their fault.