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Kaleb Comp I, P.6 Touching Spirit Bear Essay I read the book Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen. It is about a teenager who’s name is Cole. He has been sent to drug counseling and anger therapy multiple occasions. He got in trouble so many times by his Parole Officer. “Dont screw up. This is your last chance” (Ben, 6) But Cole new that if he had one last chance he can always get another. But not this time, at school, he beat up a kid named Peter Driscal. His Parole Officer was part of the Circle Justice, which is a native American group of justice. He saw was Cole had done and told him he would give him a good deal. That deal was that he would send him to a remote island in Alaska for a year.
Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth, by John Hubner, follows Hubner as he observes the “worst of the worst” juvenile offenders at Giddings State School. This treatment program is truly a “last chance” for may of the adolescents there – their last chance to change the direction of their lives before ending up in jail. Hubner takes the reader through a gripping and emotional journey as the teenagers go through the Capitol Offenders group and delve into their past hurts, childhood years, and reasons that contributed to their involvement in crime. Each member of the group must tell their life story and crime story and relive them by observing both in a drama, as well as participating in their crime drama as the victim. Once they have experienced this, they attempt to identify what caused their behavior, change it, and learn how to prevent future crimes.
Generally, adolescents feel as running away from home is a solution to all their problems. Most people think that running away from one’s problem leads to negative consequences, however, that is proven wrong, according to the novel Crabbe by William Bell. In the novel Crabbe by William Bell, 18-year-old Franklin Crabbe’s decision shows that running away is a considerable approach to solving one’s problems. He packs his bags and runs off into the woods in hopes of finding inner tranquility and freedom. Throughout his journey in the woods, Crabbe unexpectedly receives more than what he seeks for. In the woods, Crabbe receives great rewards such as quality moral support from a strong willed woman named Mary Pallas, he obtains many important survival skills, and he becomes an overall more responsible and mature person.
A young man, in his twenties, sets off into the wild completely disregarding his family and his past life and takes on a whole new personality. This perfectly explains Chris McCandless and the journey that he initially set out on. He was a young man seeking self-acceptance and peace, and he looked for it in all of the different places that he visited. Visiting these places made Chis more and more hungry for a challenge. He planned on leaving the comfort of a home and setting out into the Alaskan wilderness, where he would eventually die. Many wonder what lead McCandless to his death and there are many different theories. Chris McCandless was motivated by guilt to go to Alaska, and although he died of starvation, his father’s abusive nature
How White people assumed they were better than Indians and tried to bully a young boy under the US Reservation. Alexie was bullied by his classmates, teammates, and teachers since he was young because he was an Indian. Even though Alexie didn’t come from a good background, he found the right path and didn’t let his hands down. He had two ways to go to, either become a better, educated and strong person, either be like his brother Steven that was following a bad path, where Alexie chose to become a better and educated person. I believe that Alexie learned how to get stronger, and stand up for himself in the hard moments of his life by many struggles that he passed through. He overcame all his struggles and rose above them
The dynamic between parents and children condition what the child will think and follow through with. It is important that child and parents establish an appropriate relationship that can guide them through their life.This struggle between parents and children as discussed in In Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the life of wealthy Christopher McCandless is chronicled, and what may have drove him away to traverse the wilds of Alaska, which ultimately lead to his demise. Jon Krakauer takes the reader on ride explaining the damaged relationship between christopher and his parents using specific events and words, this shaped Christopher into the person that went into the woods to find new horizons. Krakauer does this by introducing his purpose.
Eric is a 6-year old African-american male who was raised in an impoverished inner city neighborhood in Chicago. Drugs and violence surrounded his daily life. With a single-mother who involved herself in a series of relationships with abusive boyfriends, Eric found himself beat with a belt, and may have been sexually assaulted. His mother was not home that often, and he was forced to sit outside on the stoop so that his grandmother, that also lived with them, could sell drugs. His mother was uneducated and supported the family with her public assistance grant. He has never met his father, and his uncles are in jail. His father was convicted of robbery and drug charges but Eric was told that he was shot to death in an attempted robbery. He dreams of one day avenging his father's death and acts it out when he plays alone. He has a history of terrorizing animals and killed the family cat. He also did poorly in school, being diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. He is constantly involved in fights and has no companions. When home, he mostly involved himself in action movies and cartoons. Eric b efriends a boy who lived next door to him. One day he steals the boys bicycle and when the family comes to claim it, Eric threate ns the boy by saying that he was going to kill his baby brother. A few weeks later, Eric broke into the apartment and assaulted the baby, beating him nearly to death.
Many stereotypes are associated with Appalachian background, which Townsend and Pollock use to their advantage in order for their characters’ interactions to have this heavy impact on their on-going development. Every child wants to make their parents proud either by becoming successful, pursuing their parent’s dream that he or she never got to fulfill, or committing an act, right or wrong, that their parent demands they do. In Saint Monkey, Audrey and Caroline are heavily influenced by their fathers’ decisions and the consequences that followed, which is also in relation with Bobby and his father in “Real Life.” An interview editor for The Rumpus, Ben Pfeiffer, concludes from an interview with Townsend a key reason to the suffering of their friendship, “Audrey Martin and Caroline “Pookie” Wallace, misfit childhood friends, start to drift apart along different life paths” (Pfeiffer TheRumpus.net). Townsend writes, “…we all got to follow our daddies’ dreams” (Townsend 192). Audrey writes this to Caroline; moving away and pursuing her daddy’s dream, while Caroline is forced to stay in Mt. Sterling in order to take of her sister as a result of her daddy killing her mother; consequence. In “Real Life,” Pollock creates a similar scenario with Bobby in relation to his father. Bobby is influenced to commit an act of violence by his father’s command: “You back down, I’ll blister your ass” (Pollock 95). Bobby’s only two options are: beat the kid up or get beaten up. No child wants to be abused so the logical thing to choose is to retaliate: consequence. All three characters’ developments’ are created as a result of their actions: Audrey growing out of
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Chris came into the wild unprepared for what laid ahead of him but followed his plan sticking with it until the very end. Towards the end Chris’s story he reached the point where he accepted the fact that he needs help he writes the note: “S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP.” (Krakauer, 198) After being completely isolated for months, Chris finally reached the end of his journey and really accepted the fact that this journey should not have been by himself, but should have been shared with people who had appreciated him and wanted to help him along the way, even when they knew that it was a risk. Towards the end of Chris’s journey, he wrote down, “HAPPINESS IS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.” (Krakauer, 189) Chris realized that by spending all this time by himself it was not worth losing everybody who he had grown to care about and appreciate. This led to Chris seeing how valuable the relationships were that he built with people throughout his journey and how he missed out on so many opportunities of being with them. Chris threw the relationships that he developed away, leaving them to hope that he might return to them one day. “I now wish I had never shot the moose. One of the greatest tragedies of my life.” (Krakauer, 167). After Chris struggled to preserve the moose meat causing it all to go to waste. This action showed how unprepared he was for this journey and that through ignoring advice from people or listening to the wrong advice, he was already setting himself up for failure. Even though Chris had the drive to do everything by himself and isolating himself from the toxic society that he grew up in, he failed to see how he didn’t have to go to such extremes to be able to achieve what he had wanted out of life - to live a life where money was not what defined people, but where who somebody was would define
In Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, he documents the events that led up to the death of Chris McCandless. McCandless was a teenage boy who dealt with tremendous amounts of pressure from his parents to do well in school and keep family secrets — they apologized for it through buying him things that they thought he needed. However, Chris hated this and just wanted peace, and honesty at home. There was one place in which Chris could get this, and it is in nature — there was no chaos or dishonesty amongst his family. Before he would go to college, he would drive to unknown places on his own — cherishing the peace that he gets. And when he decides to go to Alaska, his journey leads him to
This book Into The Wild is about how a young man wants to get away from the world. He does escape from society, but ends up dying in the process. The author, Jon Krakauer, does a great job of describing Chris McCandless and his faults. Chris is an intelligent college graduate. He went on a two-year road trip and ended up in Alaska. He didn't have any contact with his parents in all of that time. Krakauer does a great job of interviewing everyone who had anything to do with McCandless from his parents, when he grew up, to the people who found his body in Alaska.
One part of restorative justice that us well known thought Canada is the Circle Process. The circle process is also known as Sentencing Circles. Sentencing circles are a popular way for the Aboriginal people to execute their justice systems. Even though sentencing circles are extremely popular, because there is little formal guidelines, making it difficult to regulate. Accord to Shaw and Jané, they thought that " there has been criticism of the use of circles in the case of intimate sexual and physical abuse, and the 'equality' or protection afforded the victims" (Shaw and Jané, 2013). In some situations, sentencing circles can be stressful on the victims and the community then the offender themselves. The positive outcome of sentencing circles, is that the group involved makes their recommendation to the judge. This is takin...
I am reading the book Shooter by Walter Dean Myers. In my book the main character's name is Cameron Porter. He is a seventeen-year-old boy that attended a school called Madison High. There one of his closest companions Leonard, Len for short, has killed someone and maybe himself. I have only read about half of the book and only two of the five sections, so I don’t know exactly what led up to everything. But from what I’ve read, It seems like both Cameron and Len came from troubled backgrounds. Like both of Cameron’s parents are well off people and have lot’s of money but he doesn’t have a good relationship with his father because his father doesn’t treat him well and his mother doesn’t really notice him either. Cameron is bullied in school
In John Krakauers book Into The Wild Chris’s journey was fueled by pent up hatred and misguided ideals, that eventually throughout the course of the book got him killed, once he had his mind set on something he was going to do it even if the rational person inside of him protested. Chris is seen throughout the book as a kid that makes mistakes sometimes, but Krakauer defends Chris at every turn because Krakauer want to guide the readers into looking at Chris like he sees Chris. The author wants you to see Chris in a certain light, but that does not mean he is correct. Krakauer only knows Chris’s story because of second hand sources and what little trails Chris made. While reading Into the Wild we only know half of the story. Here's the other
In the book Into The Wild, the main character Chris McCandless faced many conflict, internal and external. The internal conflict in the story was that the main character was never interested in being like a normal person. Chris was different, he could never fit in with the lifestyles that everyone around him had. He wanted to be outdoors and on an adventure. To Pursue his dreams he left home and started his adventure. Another internal conflict that hr had was that he was overconfident. Being overconfident and him believing he could do anything eventually led to an external conflict. His external conflict was that he got injured and trapped in the wilderness of Alaska, that caused his death. Some Foreshadowing in the book is when Chris was