MOTH by Declan Greene Moth Education Pack FINAL | Page 10

BULLYING
“Bullying is the gradual erasure of someone’s identity, through constant humiliation and
degradation over an extended amount of time. It’s horrifying and destroys lives, and its’s
something a lot of people never properly get over.” – Declan Greene
TO CONSIDER
Discuss bullying and its potential impact on individuals?
How is bullying dealt with in your school?
How could Sebastian and Claryssa have been helped in this
situation?
MENTAL ILLNESS
SEBASTIAN: And this... This is when he appears.
– “Sebastian.”
Hanging in the light. A hundred feet tall. Bigger than I can even see. Plated in this, like,
mecha-armour... Steam hissing out from the joints. He looks mostly android, I guess – but his
chest is open, all meat and blood... Sick. A pair of lungs, filling with fluid. A heart beating in
hot blue flame.
I know his name. 

– “Sebastian.” 

Same as my name. 

– “My sweet child Sebastian.” 

And I’ve never been so scared in my life.
– “Don’t be scared. I won’t harm you.”
TO CONSIDER
What do you think really happened to
Sebastian at this moment?
Discuss the depiction of schizophrenia in moth
and the journey that it takes Sebastian on.
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