Aggression In The Film 'The Sixth Sense'

On the left side of my portrait I drew the Cole we knew at the beginning of the book. I drew a devil tail and horn to show he was mischievous and an angry mouth to show he was often angry, but that’s the only way he knew how to feel. On his shirt I drew thing he would have said or done at the beginning of the book. When we started the book we knew a boy who was an abused, violent, juvenile delinquent. Cole showed those characteristics in these ways, Cole was abused by his drunk father while his drunk mother sat there

After Cole learns the value of life, he wants to make up for every mistake he had done in the past and looked to improve. After recovering from his injuries, he is again sent to the island and the first improvement he made, was that he did not try to escape from the island when he was not monitored. He chose to face the consequences, rather than running away. The next improvement he made was, he tried his hardest to get his anger into control. He followed Edwin’s and Garvey’s advice and techniques such as, soaking into the pond, rolling down the ancestor rock and his anger down the hill and dancing by the fire each night. Eventually he stopped blaming others for his mistakes. The next improvement he made in his life, was that he made Peter to come to the island and made sure he saw the wonders and value of life. “There is one way to help him,” Cole blurted, but his voice was drowned out as Edwin revved the engine to steer the boat out away from the rocks. “You are not listening!” Cole screamed across the water. “I can help him!” (Page 202) He apologized to Peter and shows that he feels sorry for all the problems he had caused to his life. He changes into an honest, hardworking, reflective and trustworthy person. Cole has learned from his

The most often referred to is the incident when Schoolteacher?s nephews stole Sethe?s breast milk but many other incidents included Paul D was forced to felicitate prison Guards on the chain gang every morning. Ella is locked up and repeatedly raped by a father and son she calls ?the worst yet?.

In Ben Mikaelsen's novel, Touching Spirit Bear, the protagonist, Cole Matthews, is a troubled 15-year old teen, who has received the title as a juvenile delinquent. His traumatizing past has turned him into an angry, stubborn and rude figure. Due to an unacceptable action, Cole is then shipped to a remote island, in Southeast Alaska, to embark in an experience that can possibly give him the chance to "change". At first, Cole struggles to change from a juvenile delinquent, but as the novel progresses, Cole slowly becomes someone he never knew he could become. He encounters a variety of challenges and obstacles that teach him many life lessons.

Cole is a fifteen-year-old juvenile from Minneapolis. His father is a raging alcoholic and beats Cole constantly while his mother does nothing to stop them. Cole’s been to many therapists and many detention centers. Cole wants to get revenge on a boy named Peter who heard about him breaking into a hardware store by beating him very badly.

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." As a part of the society, it is unavoidable to enjoy the power and the privilege while experience the discrimination or micro-aggression both consciously or unconsciously. The sexual orientation and race is closely related to the power and the privilege. The perceptions of micro-aggression are largely based on the systems and situations that we are participating in. In this paper, I will talk about my relationship to the power and privilege, my experience with micro-aggression and my past and current perceptions of micro-aggression against LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual).

This is actually a recurring pattern of Cole's entire life. His life has been a cycle of violence. His father beats him, so Cole goes out and picks on other children in order to feel powerful. Without intervention, Cole will continue to live in this cycle of violence until there's no hope left for him. This is why Garvey wants so badly to show Cole that violence isn't always the answer. In fact, it is rarely the right course of action. This also creates the theme of Violence, which then also creates the complex theme: Violence isn’t always the answer, it is rarely the right course of action since it harms you in just as many

No goal was ever met without hardwork - Unknown In his novel , Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Mikaelsen shows how a significant event can change someone's life and make them appreciate the little beauties in life. This is demonstrated after Cole, the protagonist is mauled by a bear. After he is mauled he lies there and begins to value life, understands there is good, even in negative situations, and begins to work to change his perspective on life. When cole is snitched on by a kid named Peter Driscal, Cole gets revenge by furiously beating peter, Peter suffers from head injuries and Peter can now not speak without stuttering or slurring.

First of all, the first thing for actions speak louder than words, would be when Cole beat up Peter, here in the text it says “Later after school, Cole cornered Peter outside in the parking lot. With anger that had been brewing up inside of him all day, he attacked him and started hitting him hard in the face with his bare fists” (page 7). Cole decided to attack Peter and hit him, because Peter decided to turn him in for a crime he made, but Cole didn’t decide to ask why he did, he just hit him. This gave Peter some serious injuries like it says here “By then Peter was cowering on the blood-smeared sidewalk, sobbing. Cole laughed and spit at him even as he was held back” (Page 7). Cole made Peter bleed, when Cole could have just went up to Peter and ask him why he turned him in or yell at him, words are words they don’t do as much pain as physically touching a person.

To begin with Cole’s time on the island help him become a different person. Cole is beating up Peter because he told on Cole. For example, when “Cole jumped on Peter again and started smashing his head against the sidewalk”(8). Cole was a complete jerk to Peter and caused brain damage to Peters head. Cole has now changed and Peter has come to the island and Peters dad wants to talk to Cole, Peters dad said “‘ you have changed since we saw you back in Minneapolis…’” (160). He had changed to a much different person even Peters dad saw the change in Cole. Cole is no longer the jerk he was before the island had come along in his life.

The first story, “Killings” the main character Matt Fowler, goes on a rampage with Strout, the man who murdered his youngest son Frank. In “Cons” the main character Kyle is constantly reliving the memory of killing a teenage girl. The last story, “Greasy Lake” a group of dumb teenage boys think they killed a man by accident

Literary Analysis of Touching Spirit Bear and The Devil’s Arithmetic Chaya and Cole are two kids fighting different battles to help save their own lives. Chaya and Cole are both going through tough times in their lives. While Touching Spirit Bear and Devil's Arithmetic characters have different conflicts throughout the story. Chaya and Cole are going through the same thing. Having to survive in harsh conditions and are going through life or death situations.

In the beginning of the novel, Cole behaves cruelly when he becomes emotional. One example from the book is when Edwin is taking him to the island for the first time “Anger welled up inside cole. He hated that stupid stare. Pretending to aim for the waves, he spit so the wind would catch the thick saliva and carry it back” (Mikaelsen 5). Therefore the spit hit Edwin.

it is able to show why the doctor is helping the boy and why the child

Sigmund Freud proposed that aggression was an inborn instinct or drive, as compared to later theorists who felt aggression was a reaction or a response to a situation (Meyer, 1996). Freud postulated that all human beings have two basic drives: aggressive and libidinal. The two drives were thought to appear in human behavior in a fused state. The aggressive drive was seen basically as destructive. Thus, it was referred to as thanatos, or the death instinct. This destructive aggression could be directed toward others or could be turned in on the self. If the latter occurred, a person would engage in self-punitive behaviors or suicide. The aggressive drive, Freud felt, could also be diverted into positive channels. Social psychologists disagree with the instinctual theory of aggression primarily on the basis that there is no empirical evidence to substantiate aggression as a drive. The instinctual theory of aggression is also criticized on the basis that if this were a universal trait in all human beings, then all humans would display aggression (Meyer, 1996).